Author	Shagass, Charles. author
Title	Evoked Brain Potentials in Psychiatry [electronic resource] / by Charles Shagass
Imprint	Boston, MA : Springer US, 1972
Connect to	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8654-8
Descript	XI, 274 p. online resource

Two purposes have guided the writing of this book. Originally, I wanted only to bring together the results which we have obtained during more than ten years of work on evoked potentials in psychiatric disorders. However, it soon became clear that I really wanted to do a little more than that. First of all, a systematic review of the literature seemed indicated. Even though research findings are usually presented in the context of such a review, our laboratory has not studied every aspect of evoked potentials. Consequently, it seemed more appropriate to place our own results within the framework of a general presentation of the evoked-potential field, rather than to have our specific studies govern topic selection. Second, I found that I wanted to expound on the principles and details of techniques to a broader extent than warranted for presenting only our own results. The motivation for attempting such a "methodological primer" came not only from my long-term preoccupation with technical issues, but from contacts with many investigators who consulted me during the early stages of their ventures into evoked-potential research. Thus, to the initial goal of a reยญ search monograph was added that of a systematic account of both the substantive findings and the methodology of the field

1 Introduction -- Some Historical Background -- Development of the Writerโ{128}{153}s Evoked-Response Research -- 2 Techniques -- Averaging: Concepts and Limitations -- General Recording Conditions -- Averaging Instruments -- Additional Instruments for Recording -- Stimulus Problems -- Quantification and Data Reduction -- 3 Characteristics of Event-Related Potentials -- Somatosensory Responses -- Auditory Responses -- Visual Responses -- Motor Potentials -- Long Latency Potentials -- Contingent Negative Variation and Other Steady Potential Shifts -- 4 Age, Sex, and Other Factors -- Somatosensory Responses and Age -- Somatosensory Responses and Sex -- Auditory Responses, Age, and Sex -- Visual Responses and Age -- Visual Responses and Sex -- Contingent Negative Variation -- Handedness -- Time of Day -- Respiratory and Cardiac Cycles -- Comment -- 5 Evoked Responses and Impaired Consciousness -- Sleep Stages -- Somatosensory Evoked Responses and Sleep -- Auditory Responses and Sleep -- Visual Responses and Sleep -- Comment -- Delirium -- Coma -- Comment -- 6 Attention and Related Phenomena -- Habituation -- Directed Attention -- Hypnosis and Suggestion -- Distraction -- Long-Latency Potentials -- Contingent Negative Variation (CNV) -- Comment -- 7 EEG-Evoked Response Relationships -- Between-Subjects Correlations -- Experimental Manipulation of the EEG -- Within-Subject Relationships -- EEG-Evoked Response Relationship as a Psychophysiological Variable -- 8 Intelligence and Personality -- Intelligence -- Questionnaire Tests of Personality -- Perceptual or Performance Tests of Personality -- Contingent Negative Variation -- Sedation Threshold -- Comment -- 9 Functional Psychiatric Disorders -- Evoked Responses to Unpaired Stimuli -- Variability of Evoked Responses in Time and Space -- Somatosensory Evoked-Response Recovery Functions -- Additional Studies of Somatosensory Recovery Functions -- Modified Somatosensory Recovery Function Procedure -- Auditory Evoked-Response Recovery Functions -- Visual Evoked-Response Recovery Functions -- Contingent Negative Variation -- Comment -- 10 Effects of Pharmacologic Agents -- Preanesthetics and Anesthetics -- Psychoactive Agents -- Thyroid Function -- Psychotogenic Agents -- Comment -- 11 Conclusion -- References