Recently added articles from Clinical EEG and Neuroscience:
Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology: Neuroscientific Basis and Practical Applications
Jan 01, 2009; ... Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology: Neuroscientific Basis and Practical Applications Editor: Stephen M. Stahl Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, New York 3rd ed.; 2008; 1117 pages This is an excellent textbook. It should be in the library of anyone involved in the pharmacologic ...
Brain Imaging in Substance Abusers
Jan 01, 2009; ... This special issue focuses on papers presented at the 2007 Joint ECNS-ISNIP Meeting in Montreal. While many outstanding papers in human electrophysiology and neuroimaging (EEG, ERP, MRI, fMRI, SPECT and PET) were presented at this meeting, the theme for the meeting was personality disorders and ...
Substance Use Underlying Behavior: Investigation of Theta and High Frequency Oscillations in Emotionally Relevant Situations
Jan 01, 2009; ... Key Words Behavioral Approach System Electroencephalography Substance Use Theta Oscillations ABSTRACT High sensitivity of the Behavioral Approach System (BAS) was shown to be one of the strongest predictors of substance use (SU). It was ...
QEEG Guided Neurofeedback Therapy in Personality Disorders: 13 Case Studies
Jan 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT According to DSM-IV, personality disorder constitutes a class only when personality traits are inflexible and maladaptive and cause either significant functional impairment or subjective distress. Classical treatment of choice for personality disorders has been psychotherapy ...
Nicotine and Attention: Event-Related Potential Investigations in Nonsmokers
Jan 01, 2009; ... Key Words Attention Event-Related Potentials Nicotine Smoking ABSTRACT Research into the effects of nicotine and smoking on cognition has largely confirmed the subjective reports of smoking in smokers on mental functions, showing smoking abstinence ...
Design and Validation of an Improved Nonferrous Smoking Device for Self-Administration of Smoked Drugs With Concurrent fMRI Neuroimaging
Jan 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT Several popularly abused drugs, such as nicotine (tobacco) and THC (Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol) (marihuana) are commonly self-administered by the smoked route. Although the neuronal substrates mediating the effect of smoked drugs are of interest, studies of their acute ...
The Influence of Substance Use on Adolescent Brain Development
Jan 01, 2009; ... Key Words Adolescence Alcohol Alcoholism Diffusion Tensor Imaging Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Hangover Magnetic Resonance Imaging Withdrawal ABSTRACT Adolescence is a unique period in neurodevelopment ....
EEG and Cerebral Blood Flow Velocity Abnormalities in Chronic Cocaine Users
Jan 01, 2009; ... Key Words Cerebral Blood FLow Velocity Cocaine Electroencephalography Pulsatility Index Transcranial Doppler Sonography ABSTRACT EEG and cerebral blood flow abnormalities have been documented in chronic cocaine abusers. To identify possible ...
Epilepsy: A Comprehensive Textbook
Oct 01, 2008; ... Epilepsy: A Comprehensive Textbook Editors: Jerome Engel, Jr., and Timothy A. Pedley 2nd ed., Vols 1-3, 2985 pages with illustrations; ISBN: 0-7817-5777-0 Philadelphia, PA, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2008; $429.00 The second edition of the Engel's and Pedley's textbook on ...
The Stroke Book
Oct 01, 2008; ... The Stroke Book Editors: M. T. Torbey and H. S. Magdy Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, Sao Paulo, 2007; 330 pages; $45.00 paperback This is a good synopsis of the current state of stroke care. It should be read carefully and ...
Cortical Functional Anatomy of Voluntary Saccades in Parkinson Disease
Oct 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT In Parkinson Disease (PD) several aspects of saccades are affected. The saccade-generating brainstem neurons are spared, however, the signals they receive may be flawed. In particular voluntary saccades suffer, but the functional anatomy of the impairment of saccade-related ...
Changes in Brain Function During Administration of Venlafaxine or Placebo to Normal Subjects
Oct 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT Previous research has demonstrated neurophysiologic effects of antidepressants in depressed subjects. We evaluated neurophysiologic effects of venlafaxine in normal subjects. Healthy adults (n=32) received a 1-week placebo lead-in followed by 4 weeks randomized ...
Is the Decreased Longevity Among Left-Handers Related to an Increase in Heart Disease?
Oct 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT Many studies report that left-handers have a shorter longevity than right-handers, and the present study may provide a possible explanation for that finding. In a Cardiac Rehabilitation Unit for the elderly with a mean age of 75.2 years the prevalence of left-handers was 16.7% ....
Hippocampic Theta Rhythm
Oct 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT A prominent theta rhythm dominates the EEG of rodents such as rabbits, rats and mice. This rhythmical activity is preponderant in the hippocampus and may become quite widespread; it is usually arousal-related and generated by cholinergic mechanisms. This pattern has been ...
Temporospatial Characterization of Brain Oscillations (TSCBO) Associated with Subprocesses of Verbal Working Memory in Schizophrenia
Oct 01, 2008; ... Abstract The studies of the neural correlates of verbal working memory in schizophrenia are somewhat inconsistent. This could be related to experimental paradigms that engage differentially working memory components or methodological limitations in terms of characterization of brain ...
Power Spectral Frequency and Coherence Abnormalities in Patients with Intractable Epilepsy and Their Usefulness in Long-Term Remediation of Seizures Using Neurofeedback
Oct 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT Medically intractable seizures appear to be highly correlated with focal slow activity (delta or theta). They also correlate highly with decreases in the coherence of theta. Normalization of focal slowing and of decreased theta coherence will probably be the neurofeedback ...
Alpha Coma Pattern in a Child
Oct 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT Alpha coma, an EEG pattern characterized by diffuse or widespread rhythmic activity in the alpha frequency band, is typically recorded in patients with profound coma and is frequently associated with severe neurological conditions. The most common etiologic factors of this ...
EEG Findings in an Eleven-Year-Old Girl with Mercury Intoxication
Oct 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT An 11-year-old female was seen at our outpatient clinic with a broad variety of symptoms that were due to elemental mercury intoxication. Electromyography and sequential electroencephalography findings obtained at days 2, 36, 88 and 148 are described. The patient was treated ...
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Artifact During Electroencephalography
Oct 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT Artifacts are signals recorded on the electroencephalogram (EEG) that are not cerebral in origin and can be divided into physiological and non-physiological artifacts. We present here an interesting non-physiological EEG artifact generated by cardiopulmonary resuscitation ...
Known, Forgotten and Rediscovered - Electricity and the Brain
Jul 01, 2008; ... Electroencephalography and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Electricity is the currency of the brain.1 Our present conceptualization of the brain holds that all behavior, memories, thoughts, movements, or actions derive from the activity of electrically discharging neurons which then ...