The Clinical Neurophysiology Primer

With the growth of combined clinical neurophysiology fellowship training programs and their corresponding “pan-physiology” board examinations, there has been an increased need for educational materials that span the range of clinical neurophysiology topics. The Clinical Neurophysiology Primer aims to meet this need by providing a broad and intentionally basic treatment of the most central topics within clinical neurophysiology. The Clinical Neurophysiology Primer initially took shape within the clinical neurophysiology sections at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Rhode Island Hospital, as an outgrowth of their fellowships’ didactic lecture series. Faculty and trainees at these and affiliated teaching hospitals participate in a series of lectures over the course of the academic year designed to acquaint trainees with the elements of clinical neurophysiology, supplementing their clinical experiences. We hope that this primer will prove valuable to others as a companion book intended for clinical neurophysiology fellows and neurology residents, to be used in conjunction with such a program of lectures.

LIST OF CHAPTERS FOR CLINICAL NEUROPHYSIOLOGY PRIMER BLUM/RUTKOVE-Revised I. Basic Considerations 1. Basic Electronics in Clinical Neurophysiology - Andrew Blum, Christopher Sinclair, Mason Gasper 2. Basic CNS Physiology and Cortical Basis of EEG - Gregory Holmes, Roustem Kazipov 3. Ions, Membrane Potentials and Electrical Properties of Nerves - Devanand Jillapalli, Jeremy Shefner 4. Introduction to Volume Conduction - Seward Rutkove II. EEG 5. The Normal EEG in an Adult - Donald Schomer 6. Activation of the EEG - Barbara A. Dworetzky, Edward B. Bromfield, Nanon E. Winslow 7. Normal Variant EEG Patterns - Richard Cervone, Andrew Blum 8. Epileptiform Abnormalities - Bernard Chang, Frank Drislane 9. Focal and Generalized Slowing, Coma and Brain Death - Edward Donnelly, Andrew Blum 10. Normal Pediatric EEG - Ann Bergin, Blaise Bourgeois 11. Pediatric EEG Abnormalities - James Riviello III. EMG 12. Neurophysiology of Nerve Conduction Studies - James Carress, Seward Rutkove, Gregory Esper 13. Technical, Physiological, and Anatomical Considerations in Nerve Conduction Studies - James Carress 14. Introduction to the Needle Electrode Examination - Seward Rutkove, Gregory J. Esper 15. Mononeuropathies of the Upper and Lower Extremity - Milind Kothari, Kevin R. Scott 16. Electrophysiology of Polyneuropathy - Annabel Wang, Seward Rutkove 17. Radiculopathy and Motor Neuron Disorders - Elizabeth Raynor, Juan A. Acosta 18. Electrophysiology and Brachial and Lumbosacral Plexopathies - Elizabeth Raynor, Juan A. Acosta 19. Evaluation of the Cranial Nerves - George Sachs 20. Electrophysiology of Myopathy: Approach to the Patient with Myopathy in the EMG Laboratory - Nithi S. Anand, David Chad 21. Neurophysiology of Neuromuscular Transmission and Disorders - James M. Gilchrist 22. Pediatric Nerve Conduction Studies and Electromyography - Peter B. Kang IV. Autonomic, EP, and Sleep 23. Polysomnography and Sleep Disorders - Jean Matheson, Andreja Packard, randip Singh 24. Autonomic Nervous System Testing - Roy Freeman, Frederick Nahm 25. Visual Evoked Potentials - Frank Drislane 26. Brainstem Auditory Evoked Potentials - Andrew Blum, Jacob R. Berger 27. Somatosensory Evoked Potentials - Andrew Blum, Jacob R. Berger 28. Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation - Alvaro Pascual - Leone, Masahito Kobayashi