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This book contains the most essential information needed for an epilepsy/ EEG rotation. Chapters are formatted with bullet points and feature clinical pearls. Concise and easy-to-read, this quick reference provides neurology residents, clinical neurophysiology and epilepsy fellows, and other clinicians with the most critical information in epilepsy and EEG in a simplified, yet comprehensive format. Divided into two sections, the book first covers the diagnosis, characteristics, and treatment of epilepsy. The second section focuses on EEG placement, procedures, and patterns in various neurological disorders.
List of contents
What is not a Seizure?.- Seizures and Epilepsy.- Treatment of Seizures.- Catamenial Epilepsy.- Electrode Placement and Montages.- Normal EEG.- Normal EEG Variants.- EEG Artifacts.- Activation Procedures.- Interictal Abnormal EEG Patterns.- Ictal EEG Patterns.- Encephalopathies and EEG.- Brain Death and EEG.
About the author
Mona Sazgar, MD
Department of Neurology
University of California, Irvine
Orange, CA
USA
Michael Gregory Young, DO
Department of Neurology
Kaiser Permanente
Riverside, CA
USA
Summary
This book contains the most essential information needed for an epilepsy/ EEG rotation. Chapters are formatted with bullet points and feature clinical pearls. Concise and easy-to-read, this quick reference provides neurology residents, clinical neurophysiology and epilepsy fellows, and other clinicians with the most critical information in epilepsy and EEG in a simplified, yet comprehensive format. Divided into two sections, the book first covers the diagnosis, characteristics, and treatment of epilepsy. The second section focuses on EEG placement, procedures, and patterns in various neurological disorders.
