Neurocognitive Processes and the EEG/MEG Fernando H. Lopes Da Silva INTRODUCTION The interest in using electroencephalography (EEG) signals to understand cognitive processes has been a permanent question since the days…
Evoked Potentials in Children and Infants Aatif M. Husain Neurophysiologic tests are used frequently to evaluate the functional integrity of the nervous system. Although neuroimaging studies accurately display anatomy, their…
Somatosensory-Evoked Potentials: Normal Responses, Abnormal Waveforms, and Clinical Applications in Neurologic Diseases FranÇOis MauguiÈre The modern history of clinical somatosensory-evoked potential (SEP) testing began over 50 years ago with George…
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…
