Making Sense of the Pediatric EEG

ISBN-13: 9781032486079 / Angielski

Maria Montenegro

Opis

The simple and clear approach provided by this book will help the reader make sense of pediatric electroencephalography. Written for medical students, residents, and fellows. It will also benefit neurologists who treat children with epilepsy but are not epileptologists.

Spis treści

Preface. About the author. Contributors. Abbreviations and acronyms. Basic principles. Artifacts. Activation procedures. Normal variants. Neonatal EEG. Normal wakefulness. Normal sleep. Non-epileptiform abnormalities. Focal epilepsy syndromes. Generalized epilepsy syndromes. Developmental and epileptic encephalopathies. Ictal classification. EEG report. Index.

O autorze

Maria Augusta Montenegro, MD, PhD is a pediatric neurologist/epileptologist originally from Brazil. Following her residency program and PhDshe undertook a post-doctorate fellowship in New York (Columbia University) and Boston (Herscot Center for Tuberous Sclerosis Complex/ MGH). Maria was the chief of pediatric neurology at the University of Campinas (Brazil), and in 2022 she moved to the US to work at Rady Children’s Hospital / UCSD as a pediatric neurologist / epileptologist. Maria has written several books and scientific chapters.