Base Knowledge
Origin of the electroencephalographic signal.
Distinguish normal features of the EEG signal in waking and sleeping adults and children, including benign variants, activation procedures and artifacts.
Teaching Methodologies
For the theoretical and theoretical-practical components, an active-expository method will be used, with different resourses, such as slides, videos and texts.
The practical component consists on the integral analysis of EEGs, both normal and in various neurological and systemic disorders, as well as the elaboration of technical reports.
Learning Results
The student must acquire knowledge on:
– Electroencephalographic patterns in different neurological diseases.
– Pharmacological, surgical and palliative treatment in refractory epilepsies.
– Invasive and non-invasive modalities to study the human brain, in relation to epilepsy surgery.
– Significance of EEG as an instrument for neurological assessment in the examination of neonates and premature infants.
– Multimodal methods for the assessment of neurological clinical scenarios.
The student must acquire the skills and competencies on:
– Acquisition, reading and reporting of awake, sleep-deprived and 24-hour EEGs, for both children and adults.
– Clinical-electroencephalographic correlation and differential diagnosis in Neurology.
Program
– Epileptic syndromes in children (considering different age groups) and in young adults.
– Treatment options in epilepsy.
– Epilepsy surgery: electrocorticography (subdural and deep electrodes, and cortical electrical stimulation)
– Non-epileptic paroxysmal phenomena.
– Neonatal EEG.
– EEG in cerebrovascular disease and dementia.
– EEG in changes of the state of consciousness.
– Advanced EEG methods: 24h-ambulatory EEG, EEG Source Imaging, EEG/EMG Backaveraging.
Curricular Unit Teachers
Joana Isabel Rodrigues SoaresInternship(s)
NAO
Bibliography
Primary:
– Schomer D, Lopes da Silva F. Niedermeyer’s Electroencephalography: Basic Principles, Clinical Applications, and Related Fields. 6th Ed. 2011. Wolters Kluwer Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore.
– Ebersole JS, Husain A, Nordli DR. Current Practice of Clinical Electroencephalography. 4th Ed. 2014. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore.
Secondary:
– Mizrahi EM, Hrachovy RA, Kellaway P. Atlas of Neonatal Electroencephalography. 3rd Ed. 2004. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, USA.
– Doose H. EEG in Childhood Epilepsy: Initial Presentation and Long-Term Follow-Up. 2003. John Libbey Eurotext, France.
– Luders, HO. Textbook of Epilepsy Surgery. 2nd Ed.2008. CRC Press.
– Eeg-Olofsson KE. Pediatric Clinical Neurophysiology (International Review of Child Neurology. 2007. Mac Keith Press.
– Bureau M, Genton P, Delgado-Escueta AV, Dravet C, Guerrini R, Tassinari CA, Thomas P, Wolf P. Epileptic Syndromes in Infancy, Childhood and Adolescence. 6th Ed. 2019. John Libbey Eurotext.
– Rossetti AO (Editor), Laureys S (Editor). Clinical Neurophysiology in Disorders of Consciousness: Brain Function Monitoring in the ICU and Beyond. 2015th Edition. Springer.