Electromedicine

Aminoff, M.J. Electrodiagnosis in Clinical Neurology, 3rd Edition. New York: Churchill Livingstone; 1992.

The 822page tome consists of a comprehensive overview of techniques and equipment used in neurological electrodiagnosis. It begins with a brief history of electrophysiology followed by a description of the pertinent instrumentation and its use. Topics covered include the use of electroencephalography in pediatrics, neonatology, and epileptic patients. The book also discusses topographic mapping, frequency analysis, nerve conduction studies, late responses, the blink reflex, movement disorders, the autonomic nervous system, various evoked potentials, electromyography, electroretinography, electronystagmography, posturography, polysomnography, and brain death.

Barry, E.; Sussman, N.M.; O'Conner, M.J.; Harner, R.N. Presurgical Electroencephalographic Patterns and Outcome From Anterior Temporal Lobectomy. Archives of Neurology. 49:2127; 1992.

This article discusses electroencephalographic patterns and their relation to patient outcome in surgicallytreated epilepsy. All subjects underwent anterior temporal lobe resection. Those with presurgical EEG'sand in particular, interictal scalp EEG'sshowing a temporal lobe focus had the most successful outcome. Patients with extratemporal spread of the interictal spike on scalp EEG, however, did less well (only one third improved). Thus, the paper suggests that the interictal scalp EEG

perspectives. For example, topics include "women and ECT," "the elderly and ECT," and "social control and ECT." The author concludes with an ECT death chronology, a list of physicians using shock therapies, and an extensive glossary of psychiatric terminology. Giannitrapai, D. et al. The EEG of Mental Activities. New York: Karger: 1988. This book consists of a 203page compilation of various papers on electroencephalography. It is divided into three parts. Part 1 defines the dementias and includes 5 papers covering the electroencephalograms (EEG's) of patients with initial presenile idiopathic cognitive decline, Alzheimer's dementia, nonAlzheimer's dementias, and hereditary cerebral hemorrhage associated with amyloidosis. Part 2 discusses hemispheric findings. It consists of 4 papers describing hemisphere specialization of the EEG during learning, the perception of music, and other states. Finally, the last part of the book details the individual EEG traces of psychopathologic conditions such as schizophrenia. Gibson, W.P. Electrocochleography in the Diagnosis of Perilymphatic Fistula: Intraoperative Observations and Assessment of a New Diagnostic Office Procedure. American Journal of Otology. 13:146151;

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