Contents -- Contributors -- SECTION 1 BASIC NEUROPHYSIOLOGY AND AN INTRODUCTION TO ANALYSIS OF ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC WAVEFORMS -- 1. ELECTRICITY AND ELECTRONICS FOR CLINICAL NEUROPHYSIOLOGY -- BASIC PRINCIPLES AND DEFINITIONS IN ELECTRICITY -- CIRCUIT ANALYSIS -- RESISTIVE-CAPACITIVE AND RESISTIVE-INDUCTIVE CIRCUITS -- CIRCUITS CONTAINING INDUCTORS AND CAPACITORS -- FILTER CIRCUITS -- TRANSISTORS AND AMPLIFIERS -- 2. ELECTRIC SAFETY IN THE LABORATORY AND HOSPITAL -- INTRODUCTION -- ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS -- ELECTRIC SHOCK -- LEAKAGE CURRENT -- ELECTRIC SAFETY PRINCIPLES AND IMPLEMENTATION -- ELECTRIC STIMULATION SAFETY -- 3. VOLUME CONDUCTION -- PRINCIPLES -- SOURCES OF ELECTRICAL POTENTIALS -- CURRENT SOURCES: MONOPOLES, DIPOLES, AND QUADRUPOLES -- VOLUME CONDUCTION THEORY: ELECTRIC PROPERTIES IN VOLUME CONDUCTORS -- APPLICATIONS OF VOLUME CONDUCTION PRINCIPLES -- 4. DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING -- DIGITAL COMPUTERS IN CLINICAL NEUROPHYSIOLOGY -- DIGITIZATION -- COMMON USES OF DIGITAL PROCESSING -- AVERAGING -- DIGITAL FILTERING -- TIME AND FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS -- 5. BASICS OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY -- INTRODUCTION -- CELL MEMBRANE -- RESTING POTENTIAL -- LOCAL POTENTIALS -- ACTION POTENTIALS -- SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION -- CLINICAL CORRELATIONS -- 6. ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC GENERATORS IN CLINICAL NEUROPHYSIOLOGY -- STRUCTURAL GENERATORS -- 7. WAVEFORMS AND ARTIFACTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CONTINUOUS WAVEFORMS -- EVENT RECORDING -- COMBINATIONS OF CONTINUOUS WAVEFORMS AND EVENTS -- WAVEFORM ALTERATIONS -- PHYSIOLOGIC ALTERATION OF WAVEFORMS -- ARTIFACTUAL WAVEFORMS -- SECTION 2 ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC ASSESSMENT OF NEURAL FUNCTION -- Part A: Assessment of Cortical Function -- 8. ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY: ADULT, NORMAL, AND BENIGN VARIANTS -- INTRODUCTION -- RECORDING THE ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM -- DISPLAY OF EEG ACTIVITY -- ACTIVATION PROCEDURES -- ARTIFACTS.

NORMAL EEG ACTIVITY OF ADULTS -- BENIGN VARIANTS -- 9. EPILEPTIFORM ACTIVITY -- INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW OF EPILEPTIFORM ACTIVITY -- SPECIFIC FOCAL INTERICTAL DISCHARGES -- GENERALIZED EPILEPTIFORM PATTERNS -- ICTAL DISCHARGES -- EPILEPTIFORM ACTIVITY WITH A POTENTIAL SEIZURE ASSOCIATION -- 10. ADULT EEG: ABNORMAL NONEPILEPTIFORM ACTIVITY -- INTRODUCTION -- TYPES OF EEG ABNORMALITIES -- FOCAL INTRACRANIAL PROCESSES CAUSING EEG ABNORMALITIES -- ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHIC MANIFESTATIONS OF DIFFUSE DISORDERS -- EVALUATION FOR SUSPECTED BRAIN DEATH -- 11. ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY: ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAMS OF INFANTS AND CHILDREN -- INTRODUCTION -- NEONATAL EEG PATTERNS -- DEVELOPMENTAL CHANGES DURING INFANCY, CHILDHOOD, AND ADOLESCENCE -- BENIGN VARIANTS IN CHILDREN -- ABNORMALITIES -- 12. AMBULATORY ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY -- INTRODUCTION -- INDICATIONS -- TECHNOLOGY -- CLINICAL APPLICATIONS -- 13. PROLONGED VIDEO ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY -- INTRODUCTION -- EQUIPMENT -- CLINICAL APPLICATION -- 14. ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHIC SPECIAL STUDIES -- INTRODUCTION -- QUANTITATIVE METHODS OF ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS -- MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY -- 15. ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY IN THE SURGICAL EVALUATION OF EPILEPSY -- BACKGROUND -- PRESURGICAL SELECTION AND EVALUATION -- ROUTINE EEG IN THE SURGICAL EVALUATION OF PATIENTS WITH SEIZURES -- PREOPERATIVE VIDEO-EEG MONITORING -- PRESURGICAL EVALUATION WITH CONTINUOUS OR CHRONIC INTRACRANIAL MONITORING -- INTRAOPERATIVE ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY -- 16. MOVEMENT-RELATED CORTICAL POTENTIALS AND EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS -- MOVEMENT-RELATED CORTICAL POTENTIALS -- EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS -- Part B: Sensory Pathways -- 17. SENSORY NERVE ACTION POTENTIALS -- INTRODUCTION -- PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF SNAPs -- METHODS OF STUDY OF SNAPs -- MEASUREMENTS -- TECHNICAL FACTORS -- PLANNING THE STUDY AND FINDINGS IN DISEASES.

18. SOMATOSENSORY EVOKED POTENTIALS -- INTRODUCTION -- GENERATORS AND ORIGIN OF SEPs -- METHODS -- RECORDING -- LOCALIZATION -- CLINICAL APPLICATIONS -- 19. BRAIN STEM AUDITORY EVOKED POTENTIALS IN CENTRAL DISORDERS -- INTRODUCTION -- AUDITORY ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY -- GENERATORS OF THE BRAIN STEM AUDITORY EVOKED POTENTIALS -- BRAIN STEM AUDITORY EVOKED POTENTIALS: METHODS -- FACTORS AFFECTING THE BAEP RESPONSE -- INTERPRETATION OF BAEPs -- CLINICAL APPLICATIONS -- 20. AUDIOGRAM, ACOUSTIC REFLEXES, AND EVOKED OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- AUDIOGRAM -- ACOUSTIC REFLEX -- EVOKED OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS -- APPLICATIONS -- 21. BRAIN STEM AUDITORY EVOKED POTENTIALS IN PERIPHERAL ACOUSTIC DISORDERS -- INTRODUCTION -- STIMULI -- ELECTRODES -- INTERPRETATION -- APPLICATIONS -- 22. VISUAL EVOKED POTENTIALS -- INTRODUCTION -- VISUAL SYSTEM ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY -- VISUAL EVOKED POTENTIALS: METHODS -- FACTORS AFFECTING THE VEP RESPONSE -- INTERPRETATION OF VEPs -- LOCALIZATION OF VISUAL SYSTEM LESIONS -- Part C: Motor Pathways -- 23. COMPOUND MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIALS -- INTRODUCTION -- GENERAL CLINICAL APPLICATIONS -- RECORDING CMAPs -- STIMULATION -- CMAP MEASUREMENTS -- F WAVES -- AXON REFLEXES (A WAVES) -- PHYSIOLOGIC VARIABLES AFFECTING THE CMAP -- CMAP CHANGES IN DISEASE -- FINDINGS IN PERIPHERAL NERVE DISORDERS -- 24. ASSESSING THE NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION WITH REPETITIVE STIMULATION STUDIES -- INTRODUCTION -- ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF THE NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION -- TECHNIQUE -- CRITERIA OF ABNORMALITY -- RAPID RATES OF STIMULATION -- SELECTION OF NERVE-MUSCLE COMBINATIONS -- CLINICAL CORRELATIONS -- 25. MOTOR EVOKED POTENTIALS -- INTRODUCTION -- TECHNIQUE -- MEP PHARMACOLOGY -- APPLICATIONS -- CONTRAINDICATIONS AND RISKS -- Part D: Assessing the Motor Unit -- 26. ASSESSING THE MOTOR UNIT WITH NEEDLE ELECTROMYOGRAPHY -- INTRODUCTION.

KNOWLEDGE BASE OF NEEDLE EMG -- TECHNIQUE OF NEEDLE EXAMINATION -- CONDUCTING THE NEEDLE EXAMINATION -- POTENTIAL COMPLICATIONS DURING NEEDLE EXAMINATION -- EMG SIGNAL ANALYSIS -- NEEDLE ELECTRODE CHARACTERISTICS -- SKILLS OF EMG WAVEFORM RECOGNITION -- ORIGIN OF EMG POTENTIALS -- NORMAL EMG ACTIVITY -- ABNORMAL SPONTANEOUS ELECTRIC ACTIVITY -- ABNORMAL ELECTRICAL ACTIVITY-VOLUNTARY MUPs -- ABNORMAL ELECTRICAL ACTIVITY-DISORDERS OF CENTRAL CONTROL -- PATTERNS OF ABNORMALITIES -- 27. QUANTITATIVE ELECTROMYOGRAPHY -- INTRODUCTION -- CHARACTERISTICS OF THE MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL -- CHARACTERISTICS OF THE RECORDING EQUIPMENT -- PROPERTIES OF MUPs EVALUATED USING STANDARD ELECTRODES -- PROPERTIES OF MUPs MEASURABLE ONLY WITH SPECIAL ELECTRODES -- QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF SINGLE MUPs -- PROPERTIES OF INTERFERENCE PATTERN AND METHODS OF INTERFERENCE PATTERN ANALYSIS -- TURNS AND AMPLITUDE ANALYSIS OF THE INTERFERENCE PATTERN -- POWER-SPECTRUM ANALYSIS -- AUTOMATED METHODS OF ANALYSIS OF SPONTANEOUS ACTIVITY -- 28. SINGLE FIBER ELECTROMYOGRAPHY -- INTRODUCTION -- TECHNIQUE -- PITFALLS OF SFEMG -- CLINICAL APPLICATIONS OF SFEMG -- 29. QUANTITATIVE MOTOR UNIT NUMBER ESTIMATES -- INTRODUCTION -- MUNE BY STANDARD EMG -- MUNE BY STANDARD MOTOR NCS -- QUANTITATIVE MUNE -- CLINICAL APPLICATIONS -- Part E: Reflexes and Central Motor Control -- 30. H REFLEXES -- INTRODUCTION -- PHYSIOLOGIC BASIS -- TECHNIQUE -- PEDIATRIC H REFLEXES -- CLINICAL APPLICATIONS -- 31. CRANIAL REFLEXES AND RELATED TECHNIQUES -- INTRODUCTION -- BLINK REFLEX -- LATERAL SPREAD OF THE FACIAL NERVE RESPONSE: ASSESSMENT OF FACIAL SYNKINESIS AND HEMIFACIAL SPASM -- JAW JERK (MASSETER REFLEX) -- MASSETER INHIBITORY REFLEX -- GREAT AURICULAR SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION STUDIES -- TRIGEMINAL CONTACT HEAT EVOKED POTENTIAL STIMULATOR STUDIES -- 32. LONG LATENCY REFLEXES AND THE SILENT PERIOD.

INTRODUCTION -- LONG LATENCY REFLEXES -- THE SILENT PERIOD -- 33. MOVEMENT DISORDERS -- INTRODUCTION -- TECHNIQUES -- EEG -- SURFACE EMG: NORMAL PATTERNS -- TREMOR -- MYOCLONUS -- PSYCHOGENIC JERKS -- STARTLE DISORDERS -- PERIODIC LIMB MOVEMENTS OF SLEEP -- DYSTONIA -- TICS, CHOREA, AND ATHETOSIS -- VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT ABNORMALITIES -- 34. VERTIGO AND BALANCE -- INTRODUCTION -- LABORATORY EXAMINATION: VOR-BASED MEASURES -- LABORATORY EXAMINATION: VSR-BASED MEASURES -- CLINICAL APPLICATIONS OF VESTIBULAR TESTING: ASSESSING SENSORINEURAL SYNDROMES OF THE LABYRINTH -- VESTIBULAR REHABILITATION -- Part F: Autonomic Function -- 35. AUTONOMIC PHYSIOLOGY -- INTRODUCTION -- SYMPTOMS AND DISEASES -- GENERAL ORGANIZATION OF THE AUTONOMIC SYSTEM -- SYMPATHETIC FUNCTION -- SYMPATHETIC INNERVATION OF THE SKIN -- MUSCLE SYMPATHETIC ACTIVITY -- AUTONOMIC CONTROL OF HEART RATE -- CARDIOVASCULAR REFLEXES -- MAINTENANCE OF POSTURAL NORMOTENSION -- 36. QUANTITATIVE SUDOMOTOR AXON REFLEX AND RELATED TESTS -- INTRODUCTION -- LABORATORY EVALUATION OF AUTONOMIC FUNCTION -- QUANTITATIVE SUDOMOTOR AXON REFLEX TEST -- IMPRINT METHODS OF SWEAT MEASUREMENT -- 37. EVALUATION OF ADRENERGIC FUNCTION -- INTRODUCTION -- SKIN VASOMOTOR REFLEXES -- 38. THERMOREGULATORY SWEAT TEST -- INTRODUCTION -- ROLE OF THERMOREGULATORY SWEAT TESTING: CLINICAL SYNDROMES AND PROBLEMS EVALUATED -- METHOD -- THERMOREGULATORY SWEAT DISTRIBUTION -- REPORTING RESULTS -- DIFFICULTIES AND PITFALLS IN INTERPRETATION -- 39. CARDIOVAGAL REFLEXES -- INTRODUCTION -- HEART RATE RESPONSE TO DEEP BREATHING -- THE VALSALVA MANEUVER -- CARDIOVAGAL SCORING -- POWER SPECTRUM ANALYSIS -- HEART RATE RESPONSE TO STANDING -- OTHER TESTS OF CARDIOVAGAL FUNCTION -- 40. ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY OF PAIN -- INTRODUCTION -- QUANTITATIVE SENSORY TEST -- AUTONOMIC TESTS -- MICRONEUROGRAPHY -- LASER EVOKED POTENTIALS.

CONTACT HEAT EVOKED POTENTIALS.