Normal Adult EEG

The first step in learning how to interprete the adult EEG is to learn how to recognize and describe what normal looks like. If you are a novice and have only a few minutes before one of your teachers plans to pull up an EEG and grill you about what you see, then take a look at the following, and in this order:

• awake (double banana montage)
  • blinking
  • posterior dominant rhythm
  • muscle artifact
• stage 2 sleep (transverse montage)
  • vertex waves
  • sleep spindles
  • K complex

You will also want to learn what someone means when they ask: "what is the background rhythm?"

Then learn the basics of the abnormal EEG.

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