The patient had an episode of amnesia yesterday. He recalls seeing flashes of multi-coloured "circles and squiggles on the left" and then recalls telephoning his wife, who was not at home. He has no r...
Re this post, Frontal lobe seizures versus functional seizures? Teenager
A colleague asks, "could this be phantom spike-and-wave?"
The short answer is no. Why? Phantom spike-and-wave (also known as...
When reading on the common average montages, I am often reminded of the quote by WS Gilbert, "Things are seldom what the seem".
Take a look at the following page.
The discharge correspond...
Part of the vaccine against the (false positive) spike protein on the EEG is the use of amplitude as a criterion. However, no criterion is absolute, but in disregarding it you need to be very, very, v...
The asymmetry of the following rhythms during transient arousal resembles a seizure at T4-T6. The following are three consecutive pages.
In contradistinction to a seizure, the above...
The EEG is normal during wakefulness. What do you make of the following discharges during sleep?
The epoch is taken from sleep:
Here is the above page, represented on the anterior-posterior bi...
What you make of the following three consecutive pages of the EEG?
Figure 1.
Figure 2: This follows the previous page.
Figure 3.
Here are a few other pages from the sam...
If you want to start an argument, wading into the territory of triphasic waves is sure to have the desired effect! Some authors suggest that spikes and triphasic waves rarely coexist, but I doubt that...
As a sequel to the case posted on Friday (13y, Friday Frown), have a look at the following waves in sleep.
Figure 1:
In figure 1 above there are spikes at T4-C4 (red vertical lines) and vertex...
Have a look at the following pages: the patient is initially awake and later asleep. Do you see any abnormalities during wakefulness or sleep?
Figure 1. Awake:
Figure 2. Awake, the eyes a...
One doesn't see the following waves very often:
In the above page, the occipital rhythmic delta waves are seen on the left, but in the following examples these are seen bilaterally;
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