Publisher's Synopsis
The papers presented in this volume provide the latest information on advances in clinical neurophysiology and their applications for better diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders. This work contains two tutorial chapters on two methodological areas that have become pivotal for electrophysiological investigations of psychopathology. The first tutorial chapter deals with the strategic principles underlying behavioural paradigms within which event related potentials (ERPs) are recorded in psychiatric research. The second tutorial chapter discusses the principles for spatial analysis of EEG and evoked potential (EP) data. Additional topics addressed include the study of schizophrenia and other major depressive disorders, brain mapping, pharmacological effects on the EEG, long term effects of the administration of beta blockers, and an overview of fifty years of EEG research. This comprehensive compilation is derived from the scientific presentations of the VII International Symposium on Clinical Neurophysiological Aspects of Psychiatric Conditions.
