Edition Number
2
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2005-040874
Dewey Edition
19
Reviews
"This volume fills an urgent need. It brings together theencephalographer and the physicist and enlightens both. It belongs on thebookshelf of anyone working in the broad and burgeoning field of neuroscience.Reginald G. Bickford is fully justified when he predicts in a brief forewordthat the book will become a classic in the field." --Physics Today, From published reviews of the first edition"This volume fills an urgent need. It brings together the encephalographer and the physicist and enlightens both. It belongs on the bookshelf of anyone working in the broad and burgeoning field of neuroscience. Reginald G. Bickford is fully justified when he predicts in a brief foreword that the book will become a classic in the field." --Physics Today"Has considerable value in its presentation of clinical, theoretical, and speculative information regarding electrical potentials developed in the brain and their recording . . . a substantive addition to the library of the physician or scientist . . ." --JAMA"Unique and important for a number of reasons, the most compelling of which is that for the first time a physicist with much practical experience with EEGs has set out to 'tell the whole EEG story' . . . a fine reference suitable as a textbook for a graduate level course on the EEG in a physiology or engineering department. Clinical neurologists specializing in epilepsy will find chapter six on EEG recording . . . and chapter seven on EEG analysis most valuable. The practical discussion on the choice of a reference electrode . . . is itself worth many times the price of the book." --Alan S. Gevins in Epilepsia, "Unique and important for a number of reasons, the most compelling ofwhich is that for the first time a physicist with much practical experience withEEGs has set out to 'tell the whole EEG story' . . . a fine reference suitableas a textbook for a graduate level course on the EEG in a physiology orengineering department. Clinical neurologists specializing in epilepsy willfind chapter six on EEG recording . . . and chapter seven on EEG analysis mostvaluable. The practical discussion on the choice of a reference electrode . . .is itself worth many times the price of the book." --Alan S. Gevins inEpilepsia, From published reviews of the first edition"This volume fills an urgent need. It brings together the encephalographer and the physicist and enlightens both. It belongs on the bookshelf of anyone working in the broad and burgeoning field of neuroscience. Reginald G. Bickford is fully justified when he predicts in a brief foreword that the book will become a classic in the field." --Physics Today"Has considerable value in its presentation of clinical, theoretical, and speculative information regarding electrical potentials developed in the brain and their recording . . . a substantive addition to the library of the physician or scientist . . ." --JAMA"Unique and important for a number of reasons, the most compelling of which is that for the first time a physicist with much practical experience with EEGs has set out to 'tell the whole EEG story' . . . a fine reference suitable as a textbook for a graduate level course on the EEG in a physiology or engineering department. Clinical neurologists specializing in epilepsy will find chapter six on EEG recording . . . and chapter seven on EEG analysis mostvaluable. The practical discussion on the choice of a reference electrode . . . is itself worth many times the price of the book." --Alan S. Gevins in EpilepsiaFrom published reviews of the first edition"An exceptionally well-written book that will be a useful reference for researchers, clinicians, and educators alike." --Medical Physics"This volume fills an urgent need. It brings together the encephalographer and the physicist and enlightens both. It belongs on the bookshelf of anyone working in the broad and burgeoning field of neuroscience. Reginald G. Bickford is fully justified when he predicts in a brief foreword that the book will become a classic in the field." --Physics Today"Has considerable value in its presentation of clinical, theoretical, and speculative information regarding electrical potentials developed in the brain and their recording . . . a substantive addition to the library of the physician or scientist . . ." --JAMA"Unique and important for a number of reasons, the most compelling of which is that for the first time a physicist with much practical experience with EEGs has set out to 'tell the whole EEG story' . . . a fine reference suitable as a textbook for a graduate level course on the EEG in a physiology or engineering department. Clinical neurologists specializing in epilepsy will find chapter six on EEG recording . . . and chapter seven on EEG analysis mostvaluable. The practical discussion on the choice of a reference electrode . . . is itself worth many times the price of the book." --Alan S. Gevins in Epilepsia, "Unique and important for a number of reasons, the most compelling of which is that for the first time a physicist with much practical experience with EEGs has set out to 'tell the whole EEG story' . . . a fine reference suitable as a textbook for a graduate level course on the EEG in aphysiology or engineering department. Clinical neurologists specializing in epilepsy will find chapter six on EEG recording . . . and chapter seven on EEG analysis most valuable. The practical discussion on the choice of a reference electrode . . . is itself worth many times the price of thebook." --Alan S. Gevins in Epilepsia, "This volume fills an urgent need. It brings together the encephalographer and the physicist and enlightens both. It belongs on the bookshelf of anyone working in the broad and burgeoning field of neuroscience. Reginald G. Bickford is fully justified when he predicts in a brief forewordthat the book will become a classic in the field." --Physics Today, From published reviews of the first edition "This volume fills an urgent need. It brings together the encephalographer and the physicist and enlightens both. It belongs on the bookshelf of anyone working in the broad and burgeoning field of neuroscience. Reginald G. Bickford is fully justified when he predicts in a brief foreword that the book will become a classic in the field." --Physics Today "Has considerable value in its presentation of clinical, theoretical, and speculative information regarding electrical potentials developed in the brain and their recording . . . a substantive addition to the library of the physician or scientist . . ." --JAMA "Unique and important for a number of reasons, the most compelling of which is that for the first time a physicist with much practical experience with EEGs has set out to 'tell the whole EEG story' . . . a fine reference suitable as a textbook for a graduate level course on the EEG in a physiology or engineering department. Clinical neurologists specializing in epilepsy will find chapter six on EEG recording . . . and chapter seven on EEG analysis most valuable. The practical discussion on the choice of a reference electrode . . . is itself worth many times the price of the book." --Alan S. Gevins in Epilepsia, "An exceptionally well-written book that will be a useful reference for researchers, clinicians, and educators alike." --Medical Physics, "Has considerable value in its presentation of clinical, theoretical, and speculative information regarding electrical potentials developed in the brain and their recording . . . a substantive addition to the library of the physician or scientist . . ." --JAMA
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
616.8/047547
Edition Description
Revised edition
Table Of Content
Preface1. The physics-EEG interface2. Fallacies in EEG3. An overview of electromagnetic fields4. Electric fields and currents in biological tissue5. Current sources in a homogeneous and isotropic medium6. Current sources in inhomogeneous media7. Recording strategies, reference issues, and dipole localization8. High resolution EEG9. Measures of EEG dynamic properties10. Spatial-temporal properties of EEG11. Neocortical dynamics, EEG, and cognitionAppendicesA. Introduction to the calculus of vector fieldsB. Quasi-static reduction of Maxwell's equationsC. Surface magnetic field due to a dipole at arbitrary location in a volume conductorD. Derivation of the membrane diffusion equationpage 4 of 4E. Solutions to the membrane diffusion equationF. Point source in a five layered plane mediumG. Radial dipole and dipole layer inside concentric spherical shellsH. Tangential dipole inside concentric spherical shellsI. Spherical harmonicsJ. The spline LaplacianK. Impressed currents and cross-scale relations in volume conductorsL. Outline of neocortical dynamic global theory
Synopsis
This second edition expands the widely acclaimed 1981 book, filling more gaps between EEG and the physical sciences. EEG opens a "window on the mind" by finding new connections between psychology and physiology. Topics include synaptic sources, electrode placement, choice of reference, volume conduction, power and coherence, projection of scalp potentials to dura surface, dynamic signatures of conscious experience, and neural networks immersed in global fields of synaptic action., Electroencephalography (EEG) is practiced by neurologists, cognitive neuroscientists, and others interested in functional brain imaging. Whether for clinical or experimental purposes, all studies share a common purpose-to relate scalp potentials to the underlying neurophysiology. Electrical potentials on the scalp exhibit spatial and temporal patterns that depend on the nature and location of the sources and the way that currents and fields spread through tissue. Because these dynamic patterns are correlated with behavior and cognition, EEG provides a "window on the mind," correlating physiology and psychology. This classic and widely acclaimed text, originally published in 1981, filled the large gap between EEG and the physical sciences. It has now been brought completely up to date and will again serve as an invaluable resource for understanding the principles of electric fields in living tissue and for using hard science to study human consciousness and cognition. No comparable volume exists for it is no easy task to explain the problems of EEG in clear language, with mathematics presented mainly in appendices. Among the many topics covered by the Second Edition are micro and meso (intermediate scale) synaptic sources, electrode placement, choice of reference, volume conduction, power and coherence measures, projection of scalp potentials to dura surface, dynamic signatures of conscious experience, neural networks immersed in global fields of synaptic action, and physiological bases for brain source dynamics. The Second Edition is an invaluable resource for neurologists, neuroscientists (especially cognitive neuroscientists), biomedical engineers, and their students and trainees. It will also appeal to physicists, mathematicians, computer scientists, psychiatrists, and industrial engineers interested in EEG.
LC Classification Number
QP376.N85 2005
