"It is better to let 100 criminals go free than to imprison one innocent men". Benjamin Franklin
This applies to EEG interpretation too. I would suggest that "It is better to let 100 people with epil...
Here is another example of a "wicked spike":
Try and store this image and those below in your memory and try to ensure that:
1. You will have a high index of suspicion for these waves when you...
The page above is unremarkable
Notice how the EEG recording may be normal at times, despite a very obvious encephalopathy at the bedside
In the middle of the page above there is a burst...
These are consecutive pages
If you think the above is obvious, when I was an epilepsy fellow seeing patients in outpatients, I was interrupted by a telephone call from one of the technologist ups...
Epilepsy?
In the page above, notice how well-developed alpha is over the temporal regions, especially on the left, in the first few seconds of the page
Figure 2:
In the first few seconds of th...
What do you make of this apiculate wave in the early hours of the morning (01h26)?
In the above bipolar montage, the large deflection in channels 12 and 16 can only be explained by a discharge th...
She developed her first neurological event four days ago, when she got up, felt dizzy and heard a high-pitched ringing sound, her vision appeared slightly blurred, she became an amnestic, regained her...
No minor seizures ever, there was no identifiable precipitate for this seizure. Why do you think this patient had a seizure for the first time at 59 years? TCS, without warning
Referential
Re...
This EEG below is of interest and reinforces the point made in this post: 41y, TLE
On this occasion the patient is awake. F7, T3, M1, F8, T4 and M2 are excluded from the reference. There is a sp...
...attends a school for blind people. What is the significance of the sharply-contoured waves?
He has no alpha rhythms, there are intermittent delta waves over both occipital region...
Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology Volume 36, Number 4, July 2019
What is the nature of the following sharply contoured wave? The recording during wakefulness was normal for 3 days of monitoring. The following is from sleep:
The above discharge appears at M1-F...
