Normal adult EEG and patterns of uncertain significance

Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 194-207

  Tatum, William O ^a,d   Husain, Aatif M ^b   Benbadis, Selim R ^a   Kaplan, Peter W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Benign; EEG; Epileptiform; Neurophysiology; Normal; Variants

Indexed keywords

ALPHA RHYTHM; BETA RHYTHM; CONFERENCE PAPER; DELTA RHYTHM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DROWSINESS; EEG ABNORMALITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; HYPERVENTILATION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; REM SLEEP; SLEEP PATTERN; SPIKE WAVE; THETA RHYTHM; WAVEFORM;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SLEEP;

EID: 33748123241     PISSN: 07360258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.wnp.0000220110.92126.a6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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