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Description

Leading authorities in the field present a comprehensive, clinically focused text on all major aspects of electrodiagnosis in neurology. Serves as a practical daily resource for the clinician as well as an excellent study tool for board preparation in neurology and subspecialty status in neurophysiology. Topics in this generously illustrated text include basic neurophysiology, electromyography, autonomic testing, electroencephalography, evoked potentials and much more!

Basic Neurophysiology
Basic electronics and physics
Noise, averaging, and statistics
Amplifiers
Electrical Safety
Excitable cells: the ionic basis of membrane potentials
Excitable membranes: local responses and propagation
Synaptic transmission
Waveform analysis and near and far field concepts
Muscle physiology and pathophysiology
Electromyography
Nerve conduction studies
Refractory period and collision technique
Needle electrode examination
Quantitative EMG
Electrodiagnosis of Neuromuscular Disorders
Principles of electrodiagnosis
Focal Disorders
Mononeuropathies and multiple mononeuropathies
Radiculopathy
Plexopathies
Generalised Disorders
Peripheral polyneuropathies
Motor neurone disorders
Disorders of neuromuscular junction transmission
Myopathies
Evaluation of Central Influences on Peripheral Function
Electrodiagnosis in movement disorders
Silent period studies and long latency reflexes
Autonomic testing
Magnetic stimulation and motor evoked potentials
Electroencephalography
Basic cellular and synaptic mechanisms underlying the electroencephalograph
Electrode montages and localisation of potentials in clinical electroencephalography
Normal development of EEG
Normal EEG and benign variants
Long term EEG/video monitoring
EEG in Disturbances of Cerebral Function
Generalised disturbances of brain function: encephalopathies, coma, degenerative diseases, and brain death
Focal non-epileptic disturbances of brain function
EEG in the epilepsies
Paediatric epilepsy syndromes
Focal epilepsy and surgical evaluation
Neonatal seizures
Evoked Potentials and intra-operative Monitoring
Visual evoked potentials
Auditory evoked potentials
Somatosensory evoked potentials
Intra-operative monitoring
Sleep Disorders
Physiology of sleep
Polysomnography and multiple sleep latency testing