Description

The disk will cover basic classifications and definitions of seizures and epilepsy, EEG technology and clinical EEG before proceeding to the key content of EEG traces and video samples. The companion text will be a single-volume paperback text of about 100 pages with many black and white images of records and line drawings. It will also contain introductory information on the performance and interpretation of routine EEG and video monitoring, including basic normal and abnormal patterns and clinical correlations. The diagnostic use of clinical neurophysiology is key to almost all practices of neurology. All Neurology Departments (hospitals, clinics, academic depts., group practices) conduct these studies. In fact, there is growth within departments and in the number of neurologists performing and interpreting these studies. Another trend being seen is neurologists who have focused, for example, on doing EMGs are now learning to do EEGs to add to their expertise and to departmental revenue. Very often, the clinical neurophysiology divisions within a department are the only profitable entity. All neurologists have to learn how to do neurophysiologic diagnostic testing in their residencies regardless of what kind of practice they뭠l have. Generalists and specialists in practice will become less proficient in some or all areas if they don뭪 regularly perform the studies. It is very appealing for clinicians (especially the private practitioners) to do neurophysiologic testing themselves, as they뭨e reimbursable (and often profitable) tests.

Key Features

DVD allows viewing of EEG tracing in action ?during the seizure ?alongside video of patient during inter-ictal phase (while seizure is occurring)
Adult and pediatric patients
Emphasizes the clinical applications of EEG and its diagnostic capabilities.
Edited and written by experts who discuss the principles, scope, limitations, diagnostic importance, prognostic relevance, and complications for each interpretation

DVD DISK CONTENTS:
Introduction
Seizures and Epilepsy
Definitions
Classifications
Glossary of Seizure Signs and Symptoms (linked to video examples)
Classifications of Seizures (linked to video and EEG examples)
Classifications of Epilepsies
Differential Diagnosis (linked to Video and EEG examples)
Semiology of Temporal Lobe Epilepsies
Semiology of Frontal Lobe Epilepsies
Semiology of Parietal and Occipital Lobe Epilepsies
Semiology of Other Seizure Types and Syndromes
Semiology of Generalized Seizure Types
Role of EEG in Diagnosis and Management
Routine EEG
EEG-video Monitoring (other indications for EEG; most appropriate EEG and EEG monitoring studies)
EEG Technology
Electrodes
Digital EEG Machines
Amplifiers
Filters
Technical Standards
Electrode Placement ?Nomenclature
Scalp and Sphenoidal
Montages
Localization
Invasive and Semi-Invasive Electrodes
I. Clinical EEG
The normal adult EEG
Artifacts
Abnormalities
Non-Epileptiform
Slow Abnormalities
Focal
Generalized
Amplitude Abnormalities
Focal
Generalized
Periodic Patterns
EEG in Coma and Electrocerebral Silence
Other Non-Epileptic Abnormalities
Benign Variants
Interictal epileptiform
Focal
Generalized
Electrographic Seizures
Ictal Patterns
* Ictal Patterns * Ictal Onset * Ictal Evolution * Seizure Termination * Guidelines for Identification of Seizure Discharges
Specific Seizure Types
Focal
* Temporal * Frontal * Parietal * Occipital * Secondarily Generalized
Generalized
* Generalized Absence * Generalized Myoclonic * Generalized Clonic * Generalized Tonic * Generalized Tonic-Clonic * Generalized Atonic * Infantile Spasms
Neonatal EEG
Normal Patterns
Abnormal Patterns
II. Video EEG
Methods and Approach to Interpretation Clinical Signs
* Epigastric Aura * Speech Arrest * Ictal Well-Formed Language * Ictal Jargon * Ictal Aphasia * Eye Deviation * Head Turning ?Early * Head Turning ?Adversive Late * Extremity Immobility * Dystonic Posturing ?Arm, Leg * Tonic Posturing * Focal Clonic * Oroalimentary Automatisms * Extremity Automatisms * Ictal Drinking * Ictal Spitting * Ictal Vomiting * Bizarre Ictal Vocalization * Ictal Screaming * Ictal Eye Blinking * Ictal Unilateral Eye Closure * Generalized Tonic * Generalized Clonic * Postictal Nose Wiping * Postictal Aphasia, Alexia * Rapid Postictal Recovery (Right Temporal CPS) * Rapid Postictal Recovery (Frontal CPS) * Postictal Todd뭩 Paralysis
Signs Evoked by Electrical Stimulation
* Focal Motor ?Tonic * Focal Motor ?Clonic * Focal Motor ?Posturing * Eye Version ?Head Version * Negative Motor Effect * Focal Sensory * Auditory (Patient Report) * Global Aphasia * Anomia * Loss of Repetition Ability * Apraxia
Seizure Types
Partial
Simple Partial
* Simple Partial Motor without a march, simple partial motor with a jacksonian march * Simple partial postural (supplementary motor), inhibitory motor, focal negative * Myoconus * Aphasic * Subjective * Complex Partial * Left Mesial Temporal * Right Mesial Temporal * Lateral Temporal * Frontal ?Orbitofrontal * Frontal Cingulate * Frontal ?Dorsolateral * Frontal Absence * Parietal * Occipital ?Localized * Occipital ?Spreading to Frontal * Occipital ?Spreading to Temporal Gelastic
Partial with Generalization
* Temporal becoming generalized * Frontal becoming generalized Generalized
* Absence 뻋ypical Simple * Absence ?with Automatisms * Absence ?with Atonic Components * Absence ?with Tonic Components * Atypical Absence * Absence with Secondary Generalization * Myoclonic Absence (different from absence with myoclonic components) * Myoclonic * Tonic * Infantile Spasms * Clonic * Myoclonic뾃tonic * Negative Myoclonus * Tonic ?Clonic * Clonic Tonic Clonic *Tonic ?Absence
Generalized with Focal Evolution
Other: Relex Seizures ?Startle-Induced, Photic-Induced
III. Differential Diagnosis * Pseudoseizures * Syncope * Sleep Myoclonus * Parasomnia * Chorea * Sandfifer Syndrome * Behavioral Abnormalities in Children with MR * Non-Epileptic Myclonus (ex-postanoxic) * Startle * Tiagabine encephalography
Quantitative EEG
BOOK CONTENTS:
Introduction
EEG Technology
EEG Analysis
Routine EEG
Approach to Video EEG
Seizure Semiology and Differential Diagnosis