Clinical Electroencephalography

Professor Oriano Mecarelli, Researcher Professor at the Department of Human Neurosciences, Sapienza University of Rome, is the Chairman of the Degree in Neurophysiopathological Techniques and Chairman of Center for the Diagnosis and Therapy of Epileptic Syndromes, Neurophysiopathology Unit, Sapienza University of Rome, University Hospital Policlinico Umberto 1°, Rome. His main area of interest is electroencephalography and clinical epileptology. He is President of the Italian League against Epilepsy (LICE), member of the executive committee of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology (SINC) and member of the Italian Society of Neurology (SIN). Prof. Mecarelli has published several papers in international journals and he is author of an Italian textbook entitled "Manuale Teorico Pratico di Elettroencefalografia" published by Wolters Kluwer Health in 2009.

Preface.- Part I.  Technical  Aspects and Normal EEG Patterns.- History of EEG.-  Neurophysiological Basis of EEG.- Electrodes and Montages.- Acquisition of EEG signals.-  Computed Analysis of EEG signals.- Organization of EEG Laboratory.- Artifacts.- Normal wake EEG.- Normal sleep EEG.- Neonatal Normal EEG.- Pathological and unusual EEG Pattern.- Activation Procedures.- Polygraphic techniques.- Polygraphic investigations and back-averaging techniques.- Ambulatory EEG.- Video Electroencephalography.- Invasive EEG.- High Density-EEG, MEG and Electromagnetic Source Imaging.- Simultaneous registration of EEG and fMRI.- Part II. Pathological EEG Patterns.- Neonatal pathological Patterns.- Early-onset Epileptic Encephalopathies.- Epileptic Encephalopathies of Infancy and Childhood.- Focal "Idiopathic" Epilepsies of infancy.- Focal Epilepsies non age-related by various etiology.- Generalized Genetic Epilepsies.- Reflex Epilepsies.- Photosensitivity and Epilepsy.- Febrile seizures and Febrile SE.- Pediatric Status Epilepticus.- Status Epilepticus in Adults.- Cromosomopathy and Cortical Malformations.- Paroxysmal Nonepileptic seizures.- Sleep Diseases.- Craniocerebral Trauma.- Cerebral Tumors.- Cerebrovascular Disease.- Cerebral inflammatory-infective Disease.- Aging and Degenerative disorders.- Systemic and Dismetabolic Disorders.- Headache.- Psychiatric Disorders.- Effects on EEG of Drugs and Toxic Substances.- Coma and Brain Death.- Emergency EEG and Neuromonitoring in Surgery Room and ICU.-Appendix.- Glossary and EEG Reports.