Electroencephalography mastery: modern approaches to analysis and interpretation

Course curriculum

• Fundamentals of electroencephalography: theory, methodology and application
• General information about the method. Brain electrophysiology
• Indications for the examination and limitations of the method
• Electrode placement technique
• EEG device setup and technical conditions
• Safety. Consolidation of the material
• Polarity, leads, and montages
• Principles of localizing the focus on EEG
• The problem of the active referent
• Alpha activity and Alpha rhythm
• Beta, Theta, Delta rhythms
• Electroencephalography across different age periods: from newborns to adults
• Parameters for recording pediatric EEG
• Brain maturation and EEG of newborns
• EEG of infancy and childhood
• Normal adult EEG
• EEG interpretation: step-by-step analysis and clinical significance of EEG
• Principles of step-by-step EEG interpretation
• Assessment of the background electrical activity of the brain
• Assessment of foreground activity
• External (non-physiological) artifacts
• Internal (physiological) artifacts
• Normal EEG variants – Sharp variants
• Normal EEG variants – Rhythmic variants
• Normal EEG variants – Posterior variants
• Pathological EEG patterns: diagnosis and clinical correlation
• Sporadic EEG abnormalities – Spikes and sharp waves. Focal discharges
• Generalized discharges
• Slow waves
• Recurrent Abnormalities. Rhythmic Patterns
• Recurrent Abnormalities. Periodic Patterns
• Ictal patterns. Plus a term
• Electroencephalographic seizure
• Activation procedures. Hyperventilation
• Photostimulation. Artifactual reactions
• Epilepsy and epileptic syndromes: electroencephalographic features
• Imitations of epileptic seizures
• Seizures with focal onset (epileptic seizures)
• Seizures with generalized onset
• Neonatal seizures
• Epilepsy
• Neonatal and infantile epileptic syndromes (electroclinical syndromes)
• Childhood epileptic syndromes (electroclinical syndromes)
• Adolescent and Adult Epileptic Syndromes (Electroclinical Syndromes)
• Electroencephalography in critical conditions: from structural lesions to brain death
• Structural lesions and focal dysfunction
• Global dysfunction (Encephalopathy)
• Classical EEG manifestations of encephalopathy
• Status epilepticus
• Rare forms of status epilepticus
• Condition after cardiac arrest
• Brain death
• Drafting an EEG report: structure, interpretation and recommendations