Professor Oriano Mecarelli, Researcher Professor at the Department of Human Neurosciences, Sapienza University of Rome, is the Chairman of the Degree in Neurophysiopathological Techniques and Chairman of Center for the Diagnosis and Therapy of Epileptic Syndromes, Neurophysiopathology Unit, Sapienza University of Rome, University Hospital Policlinico Umberto 1°, Rome. His main area of interest is electroencephalography and clinical epileptology. He is President of the Italian League against Epilepsy (LICE), member of the executive committee of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology (SINC) and member of the Italian Society of Neurology (SIN). Prof. Mecarelli has published several papers in international journals and he is author of an Italian textbook entitled "Manuale Teorico Pratico di Elettroencefalografia" published by Wolters Kluwer Health in 2009.

Offers a ready consultation text for physicians and neurodiagnostic technologists

Introduces readers to the technical and methodological aspects of EEG

Defines the physiological patterns of awakeness and sleep

Uses a didactic and systematic method to demonstrate the electrophysiological and clinical patterns of epileptic syndromes

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Supplies indications for immediate and correct interpretation of EEG patterns in emergency situations, during neuromonitoring in Intensive Care Unit and surgery

Defines the EEG peculiarities of the different etiologies of coma

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