Educational Goals and Objectives
EEG/Epilepsy
Learn to perform and interpret electroencephalograms. Such expertise will include, but not be limited to, knowledge of the following:
- Instrumentation and technique
- Minimum and preferred technical standards for performing EEGs
- Understand the basics of neurophysiology that are pertinent to the interpretation of EEG
- Normal EEG patterns and their variants.
- Developmental aspects of EEG
- Changes in EEG activity with aging
- Abnormal EEG patterns and their functional correlates
- The role of EEG in diagnosing and treating specific neurological disorders
- The relation of EEG findings to results of other neurodiagnostic tests
- Learn to identify and treat seizures
- Learn to differentiate artifact and normal variants from pathologic changes
- Learn to identify EEG features of encephalopathic disorders, structural brain processes and seizure disorders
- Learn to evaluate and treat patients with epilepsy, including pre-surgical evaluations
- Learn to identify seizure patterns and to understand the clinical correlations
- Learn to identify and treat non-convulsive, convulsive, and other seizure types
Video EEG/Evoked Potential/Epilepsy Monitoring
Trainees acquire knowledge of the use of video-EEG in the context of a comprehensive evaluation of patients with paroxysmal phenomena, including epilepsy. Trainees will gain extensive knowledge of the following:
- Basic electronics, computer skills, and data reduction techniques necessary for effective and efficient long-germ monitoring
- Digital EEG and polygraphic methods
- The clinical and electrographic correlated of various paroxysmal behavior, and especially the features that allow distinguishing between epileptic and nonepileptic phenomena
- Electroclinical correlates of different seizure types and the various epilepsy syndromes
- The relation of scalp to intracranial potentials
- Integrating results of video-EEG recording with other neurodiagnostic data including MRI, PET and neuropsychological testing
- Use of video-EEG recording to formulate specific treatment strategies of intracranial video EEG for precise seizure localization
- Use of intracranial video EEG for brain mapping