Brainstem Auditory Evoked Potentials (BAEPs) and Other Auditory Evoked Potentials Gastone G. Celesia INTRODUCTION Evoked potentials (EPs) after an auditory stimulus have been recorded directly from the human cortex (1,…
Visual Evoked Potentials and Electroretinograms Gastone G. Celesia Neal S. Peachey The visual system can be studied noninvasively by recording field potentials from the surface of the cornea or the…
EEG Event-Related Desynchronization (ERD) and Event-Related Synchronization (ERS) Gert Pfurtscheller Fernando H. Lopes Da Silva EEG desynchronization or blocking of alpha band rhythms due to sensory processing or motor behavior…
Event-Related Potentials: General Aspects of Methodology and Quantification Fernando H. Lopes Da Silva Electroencephalography as a general method for the investigation of human brain function includes ways of determining the…
EEG, Drug Effects, and Central Nervous System Poisoning Gerhard Bauer Richard Bauer Alarge number of patients examined in an electroencephalographic (EEG) laboratory are under treatment with drugs that alter EEG…
Magnetoencephalography: Methods and Applications Riitta Hari Recording of weak magnetic fields outside the head by means of magnetoencephalography (MEG) emerged in the late 1960s, 40 years after the invention of…
Polysomnography: Technical and Clinical Aspects Sudhansu Chokroverty Rodney Radtke Janet Mullington Polysomnography (PSG) is the single most important laboratory technique for assessment of sleep and its disorders. PSG consists of…
Polygraphy Anton Kamp Gert Pfurtscheller Günter Edlinger Fernando H. Lopes Da Silva Polygraphy denotes the simultaneous recording of several physiologic and/or behavioral variables. The main reasons for the simultaneous recording…
Intraoperative Evoked Potential Monitoring Alan D. Legatt Sensory evoked potentials (EPs) are the electrical signals produced by the nervous system in response to a sensory stimulus. Auditory, visual, and somatosensory…
Monitoring EEG during Carotid Surgery Thoru Yamada Malcolm Yeh INTRODUCTION The studies from the North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial Collaborators (1) and the European Carotid Surgery Trialists’ Collaboration Group…
