Recently added articles from Clinical EEG and Neuroscience:
The Interictal Spike: What Does it Mean?
Oct 01, 2009; ... Since the very beginning of electroencephalography spikes have been recognized as a major concomitant of the epileptogenic process. This special issue of the journal intends to bring the reader up to date on current developments in regard to this electro-magnetic phenomenon. The first ...
Epileptiform EEG Spikes and Their Functional Significance
Oct 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT Field potentials detected in the space surrounding cellular elements of the nervous system are essential in the diagnosis of epileptic seizures. This article describes the elementary mechanisms underlying the generation of field potentials and the special functional conditions ...
An Animal Model to Study the Clinical Significance of Interictal Spiking
Oct 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT Interictal spikes (IIS) are paroxysmal discharges commonly observed in patients with epilepsy which represent an abnormally-synchronized population of hyperexcitable neurons firing as an aggregate. Due to conflicting studies on the clinical significance of IIS, research focusing ...
Epileptiform Discharges in Psychiatric Patients: a Controversy in Need of Resurrection
Oct 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT The current view of the psychiatric significance of inter-ictal spike discharges (IIS) in nonepileptic, psychiatric patients is that the discharges are "incidental" and are of no clinical significance. Hence, despite a voluminous literature suggestive that such discharges may ...
"All That Spikes is Not Fits," Mistaking the Woods for the Trees: the Interictal Spikes - an "EEG Chameleon" in the Interface Disorders of Brain and Mind: a Critical Review
Oct 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT Recent research into mammalian cortical neurophysiology, after 6 decades of Berger's seminal work on electroencephalography, has shifted the older concept of interictal epileptiform activity (IEA) away from that of a mere electrographic graphoelement of relevance to diagnostic ...