Physiology of the Intervertebral Disc Jing Yu Thijs Grünhagen Cornelia Neidlinger-Wilke Sally Roberts Jill Urban The intervertebral disc has only a small number of cells embedded throughout a dense extracellular…
Adjacent Level Disc Biomechanics Brian J. C. Freeman Donal S. McNally Adjacent segment degeneration either above or below a previously fused lumbar motion segment has a reported incidence of between…
EEG Analysis: Theory and Practice Fernando H. Lopes Da Silva Analysis of electroencephalography (EEG) signals always involves questions of quantification; such questions may concern the precise value of the dominant…
Multimodal Monitoring of EEG and Evoked Potentials Gert Pfurtscheller GENERAL ASPECTS The most comprehensive form of monitoring of cerebral functioning is obtained when electroencephalograph (EEG) and different modality-evoked potentials (EPs)…
EEG-Based Brain-Computer Interfaces Gert Pfurtscheller Christa Neuper INTRODUCTION AND BASIC PRINCIPLES A relatively recent development in applied neurophysiology is an approach called EEG-based brain-computer interface (BCI). A BCI translates specific…
EEG Mapping and Source Imaging Christoph M. Michel Bin He INTRODUCTION This chapter is concerned with the use of EEG as a functional imaging method. Great advancements have been made…
Computer-Assisted EEG Pattern Recognition and Diagnostic Systems Fernando H. Lopes Da Silva If someone would compare older editions of this chapter with the present one, he or she would notice…
Technical Aspects of Transcranial Magnetic and Electrical Stimulation of the Brain Alan D. Legatt Alvaro Pascual-Leone Alexander Rotenberg Transcranial stimulation of the corticobulbar and corticospinal tracts within the brain is…
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS): Clinical Applications Alexander Rotenberg Alvaro Pascual-Leone Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), a well-tolerated method for focal noninvasive brain stimulation, has emerged as a realistic clinical tool in…
Psychiatric Disorders and EEG Andrew D. Krystal INTRODUCTION EEG has three primary potential roles in psychiatry: (i) to aid in the clinical evaluation of psychiatric disorders, (ii) as a tool…
