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Neurophysiology
A guide for patients and carers
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Contents
- Introduction
- What is clinical neurophysiology?
- Who works in a neurophysiology department?
- What will happen in the clinical neurophysiology department?
- What is an EEG?
- Why is my doctor sending me for a sleep EEG?
- Can an EEG be carried on yound children and babies?
- What will the EEG show in someone with epilepsy?
- What is an ambulatory EEG?
- When is video-telemetry used?
- Can the EEG help with the decision about possible surgery for epilepsy?
- What are evoked potentials?
- What is evoked potential testing used for?
- What can I expect during the test?
- What is EMG and nerve conduction studies?
- EMG in measuring electrical activity of the muscles
- Summary
- Other organisations that may be able to help
