Comprehensive Clinical Neurophysiology

Basic Neurophysiology Basic electronics and physics Noise, averaging, and statistics Amplifiers Electrical Safety Excitable cells: the ionic basis of membrane potentials Excitable membranes: local responses and propagation Synaptic transmission Waveform analysis and near and far field concepts Muscle physiology and pathophysiology Electromyography Nerve conduction studies Refractory period and collision technique Needle electrode examination Quantitative EMG Electrodiagnosis of Neuromuscular Disorders Principles of electrodiagnosis Focal Disorders Mononeuropathies and multiple mononeuropathies Radiculopathy Plexopathies Generalised Disorders Peripheral polyneuropathies Motor neurone disorders Disorders of neuromuscular junction transmission Myopathies Evaluation of Central Influences on Peripheral Function Electrodiagnosis in movement disorders Silent period studies and long latency reflexes Autonomic testing Magnetic stimulation and motor evoked potentials Electroencephalography Basic cellular and synaptic mechanisms underlying the electroencephalograph Electrode montages and localisation of potentials in clinical electroencephalography Normal development of EEG Normal EEG and benign variants Long term EEG/video monitoring EEG in Disturbances of Cerebral Function Generalised disturbances of brain function: encephalopathies, coma, degenerative diseases, and brain death Focal non-epileptic disturbances of brain function EEG in the epilepsies Paediatric epilepsy syndromes Focal epilepsy and surgical evaluation Neonatal seizures Evoked Potentials and intra-operative Monitoring Visual evoked potentials Auditory evoked potentials Somatosensory evoked potentials Intra-operative monitoring Sleep Disorders Physiology of sleep Polysomnography and multiple sleep latency testing