Electroencephalography: Basic Principles, Clinical Applications and Related Fields

TLDR

The book comprises 44 chapters by 23 authors from Europe and the United States, covering a wide range of EEG topics including psychiatric disorders. It explains biophysical EEG and MEG generation, laboratory design and reporting, and provides an extensive review of contingent negative variation, with mathematical details in an appendix. The volume is a commendable, comprehensive textbook, featuring many clear and outstanding chapters and a unique, useful discussion of EEG reporting not commonly found in other texts.

Abstract

This book has 44 chapters written by 23 authors from Europe and the United States. It represents a commendable attempt at producing a one-volume, comprehensive textbook on EEG. Many chapters are good, but some are especially clear and didactic. "Biophysical Aspects of EEG and MEG Generation" deals with its subject in a clear and well-organized fashion understandable to all readers, leaving the mathematical foundations in an appendix for those whose interests are more basic. The chapter on the EEG laboratory goes into a discussion of laboratory design and organization, including comments on reporting EEGs and handling the reports. This is a useful feature that is not commonly seen in texts on EEG. The contingent negative variation is amply discussed in a review that includes techniques and physiologic and psychological correlates, updating previous reviews by the authors of the chapters. Some of the chapters are outstanding. The one on psychiatric disorders