Electric Fields of the Brain: The Neurophysics of EEG

TLDR

Computer technology underpins most biomedical diagnostics, yet clinical electroencephalography still relies largely on manual interpretation, highlighting a gap the book seeks to address. The book aims to bridge the communication gap among electroencephalographers, engineers, and physicists by presenting integrated facts across mathematics, physics, physiology, engineering, and medicine. It is organized into chapters that first link physics to electrophysiology, then explore potentials in biological media and the generation and recording of cerebral electrical activity, with discussion of computer methodologies for EEG. The book is valuable for its clinical, theoretical, and speculative insights.

Abstract

Computer technology is widely used to process biomedical information. Indeed, electrodiagnostic studies of heart, nervous system, and blood flow as well as radiographic procedures are dependent on computer assistance. Clinical electroencephalography, by contrast, remains largely a test, the interpretation of which must be done the old-fashioned way—by people. In their book the authors present mathematical, physical, physiological, engineering, and medical facts in an effort to diminish a communication gap amongst electroencephalographers, engineers, and physicists. In fact, their book is directed to practitioners of each of those disciplines. The book focuses on the various aspects of electrophysiology of the brain. The first three chapters concern the relationship of physics and electrophysiology, while subsequent chapters are related to potentials in different biologic media and the generation and recording of cerebral electrical activity. Computer methodology applicable to electroencephalography is mentioned. This book has considerable value in its presentation of clinical, theoretical, and speculative