Thu. Jun 15, 2017 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM Room No.9 (8F Conference Room 801-802)

[Aim]
This seminar aims to explain how to read EEG to participants who are not very good at EEG. The following three lectures will be done.
1) What we can tell and what we cannot tell from EEG
2) How to interpret interictal EEG
3) How to read ictal EEG
We mainly evaluate background activity and paroxysmal discharges in interictal EEG. There are some differences in background activities among individuals. The boundary between normal and abnormal findings is not always clear. Paroxysmal discharges may also appear in children who do not have epilepsy. Thus, interpretation of paroxysmal discharges is annoying in some children. We also sometimes see normal variations and artifacts that are confusing to abnormal components. We will explain how to think about these cases.
Ictal EEG findings are closely related to the seizure types. We can determine seizure types by correctly interpreting ictal EEG. If there are no ictal EEG correlates when symptoms suspected to be seizures appear, we can judge them to be non-epileptic events. Ictal EEG is a powerful tool in the treatment of epilepsy, whereas it seems that there is not much opportunity to learn about their interpretation. We will explain ictal EEG of several representative seizure types.