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1. Introduction
2. Lecture outline
3. EEG: overview of use in epilepsy
4. Routine electroencephalogram (EEG)
5. Request to "open eyes"
6. Request to "close eyes"
7. Fundamentals of recording EEG
8. Routine EEG: hyperventilation (1)
9. Routine EEG: hyperventilation (2)
10. Routine EEG: intermittent photic stimulation (IPS)
11. IPS at 8 Hz & 10 Hz
12. IPS at 18 Hz & 20 Hz
13. Pathologic response to IPS
14. Variations on intermittent photic stimulation
15. Routine activating techniques: sleep
16. Additional electrodes
17. Special electrodes: naso pharyngeal & ethmoidal
18. Special electrodes: sphenoidal electrodes (1)
19. Special electrodes: sphenoidal electrodes (2)
20. Telemetry-based recording
21. Generalized seizures / epilepsy
22. Childhood absence epilepsy
23. Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy
24. Jeavon's syndrome
25. Generalized seizure disorders
26. Generalized seizure disorders: symptomatic (1)
27. Generalized seizure disorders: symptomatic (2)
28. Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (1)
29. Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (2)
30. Niemann-Pick disease
31. Retts syndrome
32. Angelman's syndrome
33. "Partial" seizure disorders
34. EEG recording in focal seizures
35. Partial seizure: interictal discharges (1)
36. Partial seizure: interictal discharges (2)
37. Partial seizure: focal temporal onset
38. Partial seizure: focal occipital onset
39. Partial seizure: focal subtemporal onset
40. Symptomatic seizure: MELAS
41. Other findings of unclear significance
42. Psychomotor variant (1)
43. Psychomotor variant (2)
44. 6 Hz. spike and wave
45. Mu rhythm
46. Small sharp spikes
47. Wickets
48. 14-6 Hz. discharges
49. Midline theta
50. SREDA
51. Cardiac rhythm changes
52. Cardiac asystole
53. SaO2 abnormalities
54. Summary and conclusions
55. Acknowledgments

Topics Covered

• Fundamentals of recording EEG
• Hyperventilation
• Intermittent photic stimulation (IPS)
• Routine activating techniques
• Special electrodes
• Telemetry-based recording
• EEG recording patterns of seizures, epilepsy, syndromes and disorders
• Partial seizures
• MELAS
• Psychomotor variant
• Mu rhythm
• Small sharp spikes
• Wickets
• Midline theta
• SREDA
• Cardiac rhythm changes -SaO2 abnormalities

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Series:

• Epilepsy and Seizures

Categories:

• Clinical Practice
• Neuroscience

Therapeutic Areas:

• Neurology

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Publication History

• Published on November 23, 2011
• Reviewed on July 19, 2020

Financial Disclosures

• Prof. Donald Schomer has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.