Atlas of Video-EEG Monitoring with CD-ROM

Introduction

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Table of contents

Contributors
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
PART I: ESSENTIAL ASPECTS
1. Fundamentals of EEG, David Millet and John M. Stern
2. Fundamentals of Digital EEG Recording, Marc R. Nuwer
3. Automated Analysis of EEG, Andrew Gardner, S. Matt Stead, and Greg A. Worrell
4. Fundamentals of Digital Video Recording, Catherine A. Schevon, Edgar R. Toro, and Steven Karceski
5. Establishing a Video-EEG Monitoring Unit, Joseph Drazkowski, Lisa Tapsell, and Luann Helepololei
6. Neurologic Practice in a Video-EEG Monitoring Unit, Jerome Engel Jr. and D. Alan Shewmon
7. Nursing Practice in a Video-EEG Monitoring Unit, Sandra R. Dewar and Mimi Callanan
PART II: EPILEPTIC SEIZURES
8. Auras and Other Simple Partial Seizures, John M. Stern
9. Complex Partial Seizures of Temporal Lobe Origin, Scott Mintzer and Christopher T. Skidmore
10. Complex Partial Seizures of Extratemporal Lobe Origin, Ritu Bagla and Michael R. Sperling
11. Secondarily Generalized Seizures, Steve S. Chung and Kent Horne
12. Absence Seizures, Karen M. Stannard, Dennis J. Dlugos, and Tracy Glauser
13. Primary Generalized Tonic-Clonic Seizures, Erik K. St. Louis
14. Generalized Tonic Seizures, Joseph Sullivan, Catherine Bakey, and Dennis J. Dlugos
15. Generalized Atonic Seizures, Cornelia Drees and Kevin Chapman
16. Epileptic Myoclonus, John N. Caviness
17. Infantile Spasms, Jason T. Lerner, Joyce H. Matsumoto, and Joyce Y. Wu
PART III: MIMICKERS OF SEIZURES
18. Psychogenic Nonepileptic Spells, S. Parrish Winesett and Selim R. Benbadis
19. Panic Spells, Andres M. Kanner
20. Dissociative Spells, Jill M. Zuckerman and Matthew Hoerth
21. Movement Disorders, Vicki L. Shanker and Naomi Lubarr
22. Sleep Disorders, Michael H. Silber
23. Syncope, Maromi Nei and Reginald T. Ho
PART IV: STATUS EPILEPTICUS
24. Generalized Convulsive Status Epilepticus, Katherine H. Noe and Eelco Wijdicks
25. Complex Partial Status Epilepticus, Nathan B. Fountain
26. Absence Status Epilepticus, Katherine Nickels and Elaine Wirrell
27. Epilepsia Partialis Continua, Adam L. Hartman, Peter F. Morrison, and Eileen P. Vining
28. Refractory Status Epilepticus, Jan Claassen and Lawrence J. Hirsch
29. Nonepileptic Movements in Coma, Mauricio Gomez and Chad M. Miller
PART V: INTRACRANIAL VIDEO-EEG MONITORING
30. Use and Placement of Depth Electrodes, James Leiphart and Itzhak Fried
31. Interpreting Depth Electrode EEG, Lara M. Schrader and John M. Stern
32. Use and Placement of Grid and Strip Electrodes, Richard S. Zimmerman
33. Interpretation of Chronic Intracranial EEG Monitoring, Gregory D. Cascino and Richard S. Zimmerman
Index