EEG Board Preparation - 2 1/2 Day Course
Course Dates

April 1 - 3, 2010 (Ann Arbor, MI) 695.00 Register
August 26 - 28, 2010 (Ann Arbor, MI) 695.00 Register

This review course is intended for experienced technologists already possessing a basic understanding of EEG concepts preparing for national registry examination. This is NOT a course for beginners. Those seeking basic training in EEG should take the EEG Fundamentals course. Topics covered include: Neuroanatomy and Neurophysiology, EEG Instrumentation, EEG Recording Techniques, EEG Pattern Recognition, Clinical Conditions and Clinical Correlates.

This 2 1/2 day seminar beginning Thursday morning and concluding at 12:00 noon on Saturday will provide the student with a comprehensive review and clarification of the more difficult concepts of EEG technology. Following the examination content outline published by the American Board of Registration of Electroencephalographic and Evoked Potential Technologists (ABRET) course attendees will review: Neuroanatomy and Neurophysiology, EEG Instrumentation/Polarity, Recording Techniques, EEG Pattern Recognition, and Clinical Conditions and EEG Correlates.

NEUROANATOMY AND NEUROPHYSIOLOGY Neuroanatomy will include the brain’s structure and function, vascular supply, ventricular system and function of Cranial Nerves and Neurophysiology concepts of membrane, action, and synaptic potentials, neurons and neurotransmitters.

EEG INSTRUMENTATION   You will review sensitivity, High, Low and 60 Hz filters (learn to draw and explain frequency response curves) and time constants, differential amplifier, and monitor speed. Other topics of discussion include proper instrument settings, how and when to make adjustments, and the effect of various instrument setting changes on EEG activity. You will more clearly understand and apply the polarity convention and localization techniques and the use of montages to localize EEG activity. Also reviewed will be how to calculate voltage, frequency and duration.

EEG RECORDING TECHNIQUES Included for review are electrode properties, placement (International 10-20 System), and application techniques, and impedance measurements.  Also montages, localization and polarity, artifacts, and activation procedures. Further addressed will be concepts related specifically to Digital EEG recording techniques such as recording reference (electrode site, average reference and Laplacian reference), montage reformatting, and networking.

EEG PATTERN RECOGNITION Students will review how to recognize normal, normal variant, and abnormal EEG patterns. Included in normal and normal variants will be Alpha, Posterior Slow Wave of Youth, Beta, Theta, Mu Rhythm, BETS, 14 & 6 Hz Positive Spikes, and many more. Normal sleep transients will also be addressed. Abnormal patterns studied are FIRDA, PLEDS, Triphasic Waves, Burst Suppression, Alpha Coma and more.

CLINICAL CONDITIONS AND EEG CORRELATES This final section will cover an overview of various conditions and their EEG accompaniment.  Included here are seizures, cerebrovascular disease, toxic, metabolic, and infectious diseases, brain tumors, head trauma, headaches, and others.