Atlas of EEG Patterns

Atlas of EEG Patterns by John M. Stern and Jerome Engel, 307 pp., Philadelphia, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005, $140 Diagnoses in medicine are made in a number of ways, with pattern recognition ( Augenblick , literally, “the blink of an eye”) serving as the strategy used by experts with extensive clinical experience. Novices must often develop exhaustive lists of differential diagnoses before arriving at a conclusion. Each approach has its advantages, and the Atlas of EEG Patterns draws on the strengths of both methods. The text is intended primarily for neurology trainees learning to read EEGs. Given the central role of pattern recognition in reading EEGs, this book teaches a useful and standardized approach …