Electroencephalography: Basic Principles, Clinical Applications and Related Fields

Table of Contents:
Historical aspects; introduction to the neurophysiological basis of the EEG and DC potentials; cellular substrates of spontaneous and evoked brain rhythms; dynamics of EEG as signals and neuronal populations - models and theoretical considerations; biophysical aspects of EEG and magnetoencephalogram generation; technological basis of the EEG recording; EEG recording and operation of the apparatus; the EEG signal - polarity and field determination; digitized (paperless) EEG recording; the normal EEG in the waking adult; sleep and EEG; maturation of the EEG - development of waking and sleep patterns; EEG patterns and genetics; nonspecific abnormal EEG patterns; abnormal EEG patterns - epileptic and paroxysmal; activation methods; brain tumours and other space-occupying lesions (with a section on oncological CNS complications); the EEG in cerebral inflammatory processes; cerebrovascular disorders and EEG; EEG and old age; EEG and dementia; EEG and neurodegenerative disorders; the EEG in infantile brain damage and cerebral palsy; craniocerebral trauma; metabolic central nervous system disorders; cerebral anoxia - experimental view; cerebral anoxia - clinical aspects; coma and brain death; epileptic seizure disorders; non-epileptic attacks; polygraphy; polysomnography - principles and applications in sleep and arousal disorders; neonatal electroencephalography; event-related potentials - methodology and quantification; contingent negative variation and Bereitschafts-potential; visual evoked potentials; auditory evoked potentials; evoked potentials in infancy and childhood; neurometric use of event-related potentials; event-related potentials - P 300 and psychological implications; neuroanaesthesia and intraoperative neurological monitoring; clinical use of magnetoencephalography; brain mapping - methodology; the clinical use of brain mapping; EEG analysis - theory and practice; the EEG in patients with migraine and other headaches; psychiatric disorders and the EEG; psychology, physiology and the EEG; EEG in aviation, space exploration and diving; EEG and neuropharmacology - experimental approach; EEG, drug effect and central nervous system poisoning; toxic encephalography; the special form of stereo-electroencephalography; electroencephalography; subdural EEG recordings; special techniques of recording and transmission; prolonged EEG monitoring in the diagnosis of seizure disorders; EEG monitoring during carotid endarterectomy and open heart surgery; computer analysis and cerebral maturation; special use of EEG computer analysis in clinical neurology.