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UNIT II ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY 10
Electroencephalography (EEG): General Principles and Clinical Applications, Neonatal and
Pediatric EEG, EEG Artifacts and Benign Variants, Video EEG monitoring for epilepsy, Invasive
Clinical Neurophysiology in Epilepsy and movement disorders, Topographic mapping, Frequency
analysis and other quantitative techniques in EEG, Intraoperative EEG monitoring during carotid
endarterectomy and cardiac surgery, Magneto encephalography.

UNIT III EVOKED POTENTIALS 9
Evoked Potentials and Related Techniques: Visual Evoked potentials (VEPs), Electro retinography
and other diagnostic approaches to the Visual System, VEPs in infants and children, Brainstem
Auditory Evoked Potentials (AEPs), Brainstem AEPs in infants and children, Somatosensory
evoked potentials, Diagnostic and therapeutic role of Magnetic stimulation in neurology.

UNIT IV INTRODUCTION TO BCI 9
Introduction - Brain structure and function, Brain Computer Interface Types -Invasive BCI
Acquisition Techniques -Partially Invasive BCI Acquisition Techniques - Non Invasive BCI
Acquisition Techniques, BCI Monitoring Hardware and Software.

UNIT V BRAIN ACTIVATION AND BCI APPLICATIONS 9
Brain activation patterns - Spikes, Oscillatory potential and ERD, Slow cortical potentials,
Movement related potentials-Mu rhythms, motor imagery, Potentials related to cognitive tasks.
Applications of BCI.

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
OUTCOMES:
On completion of the course students will be able to
• Understand the physiology behind generation of nerve impulses.
• Describe various techniques used to evaluate the functioning of central and peripheral
nervous system.
• Differentiate between a normal and abnormal signal coming from a healthy and a diseased
nervous system respectively.
• Identify the various brain computer interface techniques.
• Discuss the different brain activation patterns.

TEXT BOOKS:
1. Michael J.Aminoffs. “Electrodiagnosis in Clinical Neurology”, Sixth Edition, Elsevier
Saunders, 2012.
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2. Kim E. Barette, Scott Boitano et. al., “Ganong’s review of Medical Physiology”, 23 Edition,
Mc Graw Hill Medical, 2010.
3. Rajesh.P.N.Rao, “Brain-Computer Interfacing: An Introduction”, First edition,Cambridge
University Press, 2013.

REFERENCES:
1. Eric R. Kandel et. al., “Principles of Neural Science”, Fifth Edition, McGraw-Hill, New York,
2013.
2. R. Cooper, et. al, “Techniques in Clinical Neurophysiology: A Practical Manual”, Elsevier,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2005.
3. Ella Hassianien. A and Azar. A. T, “Brain-Computer Interfaces Current Trends and
Applications”, Springer 2015.
4. Jonathan Wolpaw and Elizabeth Winter Wolpaw, “Brain-Computer Interfaces: Principles
and Practice”, Oxford University Press, USA, 2012.

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