Jesús Pastor

Gebundenes Buch

Quantitative EEG Practical Guide

Beschreibung

The main goal of this book is to offer the necessary knowledge and theoretical skills to all the clinicians performing digital EEG and aiming to implement quantitative EEG (qEEG) in daily practice. They will be able to understand the meaning and shall be capable to implement of some of the most popular numerical tools for analysis of EEG.

The work covers a broad spectrum from theoretical bases to the use of real cases encountered in clinical practice. It s structured in a step-by-step rise from the origins of EEG biosignals, following the mathematical basis of numerical toolbox and ending in real clinical cases numerically analysed. Therefore, such staff clinicians as residents will be familiarized with the use of these powerful methods, grasping the insight of its meaning in human pathology and being able to implement its own numerical toolbox.

The field of qEEG has enlarged significantly in the last decades and numerous mathematical methods have been described. Nevertheless,its use practically is not present at daily clinical practice. The unawareness of these methods and consequently the loss of confidence by clinicians can be at the root of the problem. On the other hand, many powerful methods are too complex to be used by clinicians. Nevertheless, authors state their personal experience that these tools are extremely useful in most of the cases appearing in routine and, therefore, they wish to share this experience with the rest of the neurophysiological community and with all allied professionals performing these methods. Although rigorous, this book has plenty of clinical cases and EEG recordings procedures.

Autor

Jesús Pastor is the Head of the Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, University Hospital La Princesa (Madrid), which pertains to the National Reference Unit for the Treatment of Refractory Epilepsy and to the National Reference Unit for the Surgical Treatment of Movement Disorders.    He has a PhD in Medicine (Neuroscience), is specialist in Clinical Neurophysiology and expert in EEG, qEEG, intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring and deep brain stimulation. Dr. Pastor is also member of the Institute for Biological Research of the same hospital (indeed Dr. Pastor is the leader of the group).    Dr. Pastor is author of more 140 articles, member of several Editorial Boards and with broad knowledge in physics and mathematics.  He has developed a numerical method for EEG analysis routinely used at his department since 2016, with more than 6000 EEG recordings analysed, what repute them among the clinicians with highest experience in the application of this techniques for the routine practice. He has co-authored several articles and 2 book chapters about the use of numerical tools for analysis of EEG in the last 5 years. Among his interest of research, it is included the development of biomarkers for psychiatric and neurological illnesses associated to cognitive decline, identification of specific bioelectrical markers of prognostic value in encephalopaties or comprehensive and effective long term EEG monitoring in intensive care-unit (ICU) patients. Especially he is focused on the response of brain-injured patients at ICU to different types of music, including classical and heavy metal. In a complementary side-way, he is applying quantitative methods to a better and easiest way to study sleep EEG recordings.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer Nature Switzerland / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 89207160, 978-3-032-05456-2
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm
• ISBN-13: 9783032054562
• ISBN-10: 3032054567
• Artikelnr.: 75135269