Advanced Topics in Electroencephalography

The adopted methodology is of the active expository type, using slides, videos and scientific publications, which will be made available to students. The evaluation of this curricular unit is carried out through a final written test that focuses on the syllabus taught in classes.

Develop knowledge in distinguishing EEG characteristics in different neurological or systemic pathologies. Obtain critical awareness in the identification of normal and pathological EEG patterns, integrating the various areas of knowledge. Understand the complementarity between different acquisition techniques and its importance to the clinical setting.
Develop skills to establish reasoning that allows assessing the diagnostic suspicion in the presence of specific EEG patterns, identifying problems and understanding the evolution of a clinical condition and its diferente neurophysiological characteristics.
Acquisition of skills to define strategies so that the execution and analysis of EEG contributes to the increase of professional performance, relating the knowledge obtained with daily practice.
In view of anomalous / atypical patterns, should be able to adapt practices, and define new technical approaches to increase diagnostic sensitivity and precision.

1. Basic principles and anatomophysiological foundations inherent to the EEG signal;
2. Normal EEG patterns throughout life and their variants;
3. Clinical EEG:
a. congenital malformations of cortical development
b. neurodegenerative diseases
c. brain tumors and other space-occupying injuries
d. inflammatory and metabolic diseases
e. cerebrovascular diseases
f. anoxia, coma and brain death
4. Clinical EEG in Epilepsies:
a. preterm and term neonatal period
b. childhood to adolescence
c. adults and seniors
d. state of convulsive and non-convulsive illness
e. pseudo-epileptic seizures
5. EEG in Epilepsy Surgery
6. EEG and neurocognitive functions
7. Neuropharmacology and anesthesia

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Nunez P, Srinivasan R. (2006). Electric Fields of the Brain: The Neurophysics of EEG. 2ª ED. Oxford University Press
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