Electroencephalography: Basic Principles, Clinical Applications and Related Fields

Abstract

As the work of the principal authors and 23 other leading authorities, this book is a landmark in the field. Of the 44 chapters, the senior author, Dr Niedermeyer, who is electroencephalographer-in-chief at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, wrote a third himself. Together with such standard topics as the physiological and pathophysiological basis of the EEG, also considered are changes with maturation and aging, normal and abnormal EEGs in a great variety of conditions (epileptic, vascular, metabolic, and degenerative), activation techniques, and depth recordings, the newer areas of sleep disorders, and clinical applications of potentials evoked by sensory stimulation. Laboratory organization, electronics, and recording techniques are also considered. Some chapters are in themselves virtual monographs (eg, Niedermeyer's chapter on epileptic seizure disorders, Lombroso's on neonatal EEG, and Lopes da Silva's on EEG data recording and computer processing). To a large measure, the many topics are well organized, well covered, well