Basic Mechanisms of the EEG / Edition 1

by Zschocke, Speckmann

Overview

This volume is based on selected and updated papers from the symposium on "Basic Mechanisms of the EEG," which was held under the sponsor­ ship of the German EEG Society in Hamburg on September 28-29, 1990. The intention of this symposium was to relate recent experimental, clini­ cal, and neuropathological data on the basic mechanism that underlie the EEG. Although we know much about these mechanisms, there is still much more to be learned. The symposium was partly the continuation of an earlier symposium on "Origin of Cerebral Field Potentials" held in 1979 in Munster under the leadership of one of the present editors (E. -J. Speckmann) and H. Caspers. The present work combines new experimental and clinical results with state-of-the-art reports giving excellent general views. The first chapter presents a historical survey of the roots of current developments in neu­ rophysiology. It seems that in the near future we may decipher the EEG, which we have considered up to now somewhat as a cryptogram (chapter 2). After chapter 3-a chapter concerned with more general points of the generation of cortical field potentials-chapters 4, 5, and 6 deal with several aspects and models of interactions and rhythms of cortical neurons. The role of glial cells in cortical electrical field generation is considered in chapter 7. Chapter 8 emphasizes the significance of brain metabolism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780817635961
Publisher:	Birkhäuser Boston
Publication date:	09/21/1993
Series:	Brain Dynamics
Edition description:	1993
Pages:	355
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

1 Mechanisms of EEG Generation — Historical and Present Aspects.- 2 The EEG—A Cryptogram?.- 3 Generation of Cortical Field Potentials.- 4 Propagation of Electrical Activity: Nonlinear Associations and Time Delays between EEG Signals.- 5 Tests of a New Model for Normal and Abnormal EEG Phenomena.- 6 Chaotic EEG Dynamics, Alpha and Gamma Rhythms Related to Brain Function.- 7 Glial and Neuronal Generators of Sustained Potential Shifts Associated with Electrographic Seizures.- 8 Is the EEG Correlated with the Brain Metabolism and Cerebral Blood Flow?.- 9 Functional Anatomy of the Thalamus.- 10 Intracellular Studies of Thalamic Neurons Generating Sleep Delta Waves and Fast (40-Hz) Oscillations during Arousal.- 11 Relations between the EEG of the Cortex, Thalamus, and Periaqueductal Gray in Patients Suffering from Epilepsy and Pain Syndromes.- 12 Alpha Activity of NREM Sleep.- 13 Transmitter Systems in Neo- and Archicortical Structures.- 14 Control of Vigilance and Behavior by Ascending Serotonergic Systems.- 15 The Neuropathology of the So-called Alpha-Pattern Coma.- 16 EEG Changes in Brain Stem Dysfunctions.- 17 Morphological and Functional Maturation of the Brain. Possible Relations to Different EEG Generators.- 18 Multivariate Statistical Methods and Their Capability to Demarcate Psychophysiologically and Neurophysiologically Sound Frequency Components of Human Scalp EEG.- Keyword Index.

Editorial Reviews

Electroencephalograms have long been an important tool for measuring and diagnosis in neurophysiological research and practice, but there is still much debate about how those tiny electrical impulses are generated in the brain, and how they get to sensors on the skull. The 18 papers, selected and updated from presentations at a symposium in Hamburg, September 1990, report the latest experimental and clinical findings, and various interpretations of them. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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