Seizures and Epilepsy in Infants to Adolescents Douglas R. Nordli Jr. James J. Riviello Jr. Ernst Niedermeyer BASIC CONSIDERATIONS Definition and Prevalence There is no disease named “epilepsy.” Rather, epileptic…
Epilepsy in Adults and the Elderly Bernard S. Chang Donald L. Schomer Ernst Niedermeyer INTRODUCTION It is difficult to imagine the practice of modern epileptology without the availability of electroencephalography…
Seizures and Epilepsies in the Preterm and Term Neonate Emma Laureta Eli M. Mizrahi Solomon L. Moshé NEONATAL SEIZURES Historical Aspects Initial investigations and attempts to characterize and classify neonatal…
Anoxia, Coma, and Brain Death Peter W. Kaplan Gerhard Bauer CLINICAL DEFINITIONS OF IMPAIRED RESPONSIVENESS: FROM LOCKED-IN STATES TO COMA Consciousness Consciousness can be described as an awareness of self…
The EEG in Patients with Migraine and Other Forms of Headache Ernst Niedermeyer Donald L. Schomer Patients with headaches are usually referred to the electroencephalography (EEG) laboratory to rule out…
EEG and Craniocerebral Trauma Erik Rumpl Acraniocerebral trauma raises the important question of the degree of cerebral disturbance. This question may be answered easily in cases of commotio cerebri or…
Metabolic Disorders and EEG Trudy Pang Megan Selvitelli Donald L. Schomer Ernst Niedermeyer INTRODUCTION AND HISTORICAL REMARKS Neuronal electrogenesis is dependent on metabolic homeostasis. Nutritive and energy-providing metabolic systems represent…
Dementia and EEG Cornelis Jan Stam INTRODUCTION Only a few years after his first report on the human electroencephalogram (EEG), Hans Berger described EEG abnormalities in dementia, including an autopsy-proven…
Cerebrovascular Diseases and EEG Barbara Tettenborn Ernst Niedermeyer Donald L. Schomer ROLE OF EEG IN DIAGNOSIS OF CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE Computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are the major…
The EEG in Inflammatory CNS Conditions Robert L. Beach Helen Barkan Edgar Deperalta ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This chapter addresses the electroencephalogram in infectionrelated and immune-mediated CNS inflammatory conditions. This distinction is somewhat…
