Synopses & Reviews
Atlas of EEG Patterns, Second Edition
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The electroencephalogram (EEG) is essential to the accurate diagnosis of many neurologic disorders. The Second Edition of Atlas of EEG Patterns sharpens readersandrsquo; interpretation skills with an even larger array of both normal and abnormal EEG pattern figures and text designed to optimize recognition of telltale findings. Trainees will benefit from hundreds of EEG figures, helping them spot abnormalities and identify the pattern name. Experienced neurologists will find the book excellent as a quick reference and when trying to distinguish a finding from similarly appearing patterns.
Organized by EEG pattern, the Atlas orients you to the basics of EEG, helps the reader identify the characteristic EEG wave features and leads you to the EEG diagnosis through a table that organizes all of the EEG patterns according to their wave features. The Atlas includes the full range of EEG patterns from the common rhythms to the rare findings, and it also includes numerous examples of artifacts.
NEW in the Second Editionandhellip;
andbull; Solution Site with full text and image bank.
andbull; An extensive table guides you from EEG wave features to a list of EEG patterns thatand#160;have the features, then to detailed descriptions and examples of each pattern.
andbull; Over 150 new EEG figures from an established EEG laboratory sharpen yourand#160;interpretation skills using real-world examples.
Review
andldquo;This book provides a compilation of important EEG imagesandmdash;both andlsquo;typicalandrsquo; and variant presentationsandmdash;to give both trainees and practicing neurologists more confidence in their ability to identify EEG patterns accurately, or in some cases to recognize a technical artifact. This edition features an increased number of EEGs to provide more variants on patterns.andrdquo; - Riki Rager, R. EEG T., FASET, BS from Nashville, Tennessee, reviewing for ASET - The Neurodiagnostic Society
Synopsis
Organized by wave features rather than pattern names, this atlas helps guide the reader to an EEG interpretation even when the waveform is unfamiliar. The first section takes the reader through the process of characterizing EEG waves by their features. The second section organizes EEG patterns by their features, so provides EEG waveform differential diagnoses. The third section is organized alphabetically by pattern name with each pattern described in a way that allows the reader to distinguish it from similarly appearing patterns. Examples of the patterns also are provided.
Table of Contents
Section Iand#160;and#160; Introduction
1and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Introduction to EEG Interpretation
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Section IIand#160;and#160; Categorization by Pattern Features
2and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Pattern Categorization by EEG Features
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Section IIIand#160; Patterns
and#160; 3and#160; and#160;Alpha Activity
and#160; 4and#160; and#160;Artifacts
and#160; 5and#160; Benign Epileptiform Transients of Sleep
and#160; 6 and#160;Beta Activity
and#160; 7 and#160;Breach Effect
and#160; 8 and#160;Burst-Suppression Pattern
and#160; 9 and#160;Cone Waves
10 and#160;Delta Activity
11 and#160;Fourteen and Six Per Second Positive Bursts
12 and#160;Hypersynchronous Slowing
13 and#160;Ictal Epileptiform Patterns
14 and#160;Interictal Epileptiform Patterns
15 and#160;K-complexes
16 and#160;Lambda Waves
17 and#160;Low Voltage EEG and Electrocerebral Inactivity
18 and#160;Mittens
19 and#160;Occipital Spikes of Blindness
20 and#160;Paroxysmal Fast Activity
21 and#160;Periodic Epileptiform Discharges
22 and#160;Phantom Spike and Wave
23 and#160;Photic Stimulation Responses
24 and#160;Positive Occipital Sharp Transients of Sleep
25 and#160;Posterior Slow Waves of Youth
26 and#160;Saw-Tooth Waves of REM Sleep
27 and#160;Sleep Spindles
28. Subclinical Rhythmic Electrographic Discharge of Adults
29 and#160;Theta Activity
30 and#160;Triphasic Pattern
31 and#160;Vertex Sharp Transients
and#160;Index