Description
Clinical Neurophysiology: Basis and Technical Aspects, the latest release in the Handbook of Clinical Neurology series, is organized into sections on basic physiological concepts, on the function and limitations of modern instrumentation, and on other fundamental or methodologic aspects related to the recording of various bioelectric signals from the nervous system for clinical or investigative purposes. There is discussion of the EEG, nerve conduction studies, needle electromyography, intra-operative clinical neurophysiology, sleep physiology and studies, the autonomic nervous system, various sensory evoked potentials, and cognitive neurophysiology.- Provides an up-to-date review on the practice of neurophysiological techniques in the assessment of neurological disease- Explores the electrophysiological techniques used to better understand neurological function and dysfunction, first in the area of consciousness and epilepsy, then in the areas of the peripheral nervous system and sleep- Focuses on new techniques, including electrocorticography, functional mapping, stereo EEG, motor evoked potentials, magnetoencephalography, laser evoked potentials, and transcranial magnetic stimulation
Table of Contents
Section 1. Basic Physiological and Recording Concepts1. Generation and propagation of the action potential2. Volume conduction, waveform analysis, and near and far field potentials3. Instrumentation for electrodiagnostic studies 4. Filtering of neurophysiological signals5. Electrical safetySection 2. EEG: Technologic Aspects and Basic Rhythms6. EEG source localization7. Adult EEG 8. Child EEG (and maturation) 9. Normal EEG variants 10. Ambulatory EEG 11. Video-EEG 12. High-resolution EEG 13. Magnetoencephalography for localizing and characterizing the epileptic focusSection 3. Nerve Conduction Studies, Methods and Techniques14. Nerve conduction studies: Basic concepts15. F wave, A wave, H reflex, and blink reflexSection 4. Needle Electromyography, Methods and Techniques16. Needle electromyography: basic concepts17. Normal and abnormal spontaneous activity 18. Normal and abnormal voluntary activity 19. Single fiber EMGSection 5. Intra-operative Clinical Neurophysiology, MEP, SSEP 20. Electrocorticography and functional mapping21. Spinal cord monitoring 22. Electrophysiological mapping for deep brain stimulation for movement disordersSection 6. Sleep Physiology and Studies23. Sleep-wake physiology24. Practical aspects of actigraphy and approaches in clinical and research domains25. Polysomnography26. The Multiple sleep latency testSection 7. Autonomic Nervous System: Basic and Technical Aspects 27. Basics of autonomic nervous system function 28. Autonomic testing, methods and techniquesSection 8. Auditory, Visual and Somatosensory Evoked Potentials29. Cochlea and auditory nerve30. Auditory brainstem response31. The auditory and association cortex and language evaluation methods32. Electroretinograms33. The Electrooculogram34. Visually evoked potentials 35. Somatosensory evoked potentialsSection 9. Cognitive Neurophysiology36. Cognitive neurophysiology: event-related potentials 37. Transcranial magnetic stimulation
