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…
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…
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…
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…
