Standard Electroencephalography in Clinical Psychiatry: A Practical Handbook

Preface.

1 Historical Review of Electroencephalography in Psychiatry (Nash Boutros).

Introduction.

The early pre-clinical era.

Early history of human electroencephalography.

Electroencephalography in psychiatry today.

References.

2 Physiologic Basis of the EEG Signal (Paola Bucci and Silvana Galderisi).

Membrane potentials.

Excitatory and inhibitory postsynaptic potentials.

Nonsynaptic intercellular events contributing to the EEG signal.

Factors determining polarity and other characteristics of the surface EEG waveforms.

Brain structures involved in the genesis of EEG rhythms.

References.

3 EEG Recording and Analysis (Oliver Pogarell).

Techniques and technical background.

References.

4 Normal EEG Patterns and Waveforms (Paola Bucci, Armida Mucci and Silvana Galderisi).

Introduction.

Normal EEG patterns in the waking adult.

References.

5 Abnormal Patterns (Oliver Pogarell).

Introduction.

Detection of artefacts.

Abnormal patterns.

Focal alterations.

References.

6 The Role of EEG in the Diagnostic Work Up in Psychiatry: Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus, Frontal Lobe Seizures, Non-Epileptic Seizures (Silvana Riggio).

Nonconvulsive status.

Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures.

Frontal lobe seizures.

References.

7 EEG in Childhood Psychiatric Disorders (Mary W. Roberts and Nash Boutros).

Introduction.

Attention deficit disorder.

Autistic spectrum disorders.

References.

8 EEG in Psychoses, Mood Disorders and Catatonia (Nash Boutros, Silvana Galderisi, Oliver Pogarell and Felix Segmiller).

Introduction.

EEG in psychoses.

EEG in mood disorders.

EEG findings in catatonia.

References.

9 Standard EEG in Personality and Anxiety Disorders (Nash Boutros).

Introduction.

EEG in aggression and impulse dyscontrol.

Panic attacks.

Borderline personality disorder.

References.

10 EEG in Delirium and Dementia (Sophia Wang and Silvana Riggio).

Introduction: Epidemiology of delirium and dementia.

Clinical diagnosis in delirium.

EEG work up in delirium.

Metabolic causes of delirium.

Infectious causes of delirium.

Clinical diagnosis and EEG work up in dementia.

Conclusion.

References.

11 Effects of Psychotropic Drugs on EEG (Silvana Galderisi and Armida Mucci).

Introduction.

The role of EEG assessment of drug-induced CNS toxicity in psychiatric patients.

Antipsychotic drugs.

Lithium.

Other mood stabilisers.

Anxiolytics.

Antidepressants.

Recreational drugs.

Case vignette.

References.

12 Certification and Training in EEG and Clinical Neurophysiology (Nash Boutros and Silvana Galderisi).

Clinical neurophysiology board certification.

Index.