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<div style="font-size:162%; border:none; margin:0; padding:.1em; color:#000;">Welcome to '''EMGpedia''',</div>
<div style="top:+0.2em; font-size:95%;">A site to improve knowledge of Electromyography in an easy and clear way.<br /> Designed by neurologists for medical professionals who come into contact with EMG's</div>
<div id="articlecount" style="width:100%; text-align:left; font-size:95%;">EMGpedia is still under construction</div>
<div id="articlecount" style="width:100%; text-align:left; font-size:95%;">Also visit our EEG website [http://www.EEGpedia.org EEGpedia.org].</div>
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'''Founder:'''<br />
'''Martin Herklots, MD'''<br />
Neurology resident, ETZ hospital, Tilburg<br />
The Netherlands<br />

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*[[Alpha rhythm]]
*[[Beta rhythm]]
*[[Delta waves]]
*[[Theta rhythm]]
*[[Mu rhythm]]
*[[Lambda waves]]
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'''Rhythmic patterns'''
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*[[Normal slowing during hyperventilation]]
*[[RMTD (rhythmic midtemporal theta burst of drowsiness)]]
*[[SREDA (subclinical rhythmic electrographic discharges in adults)]]
*[[Midline theta rhythm (Ciganek)]]
*[[Frontal arousal rhythm]]
*[[Slow alpha variant]]
*[[Fast alpha variant]]

'''Epileptiform like patterns'''

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*[[Small sharp spikes (SSS or BETS)]]
*[[Wicket spikes]]
*[[6 Hz spike-and-wave bursts (WHAM and FOLD)]]
*[[14 & 6 Hz positive bursts]]
*[[4 Hz vertex rhythm]]
*[[Breach rhythm]]

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'''EEG during sleep'''

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*[[Sleep overview]]
*[[Non-REM 1]]
*[[Non-REM 2]]
*[[Non-REM 3]]
*[[REM sleep]]
*[[POSTS (Positive occipital sharp transients of sleep)]]
*[[K complex]]
*[[Vertex waves]]

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'''Different kinds of artifacts'''

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*[[Eye blink artifact]]
*[[Eye movements artifact]]
*[[Muscle artifact]]
*[[ECG artifact]]
*[[Pulse artifact]]
*[[Breathing artifact]]
*[[Sweat artifact]]

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*[[Spikes and sharp waves]]
*[[Spike slow wave complex]]
*[[Sharp wave slow wave complex]]
*[[Polyspikes slow wave complex]]
*[[Photoparoxysmal response]]
*[[Status epilepticus]]

'''Abnormalities associated with epilepsy'''

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*[[LPD (lateralized periodic discharges)]]
*[[BIPD (Bilateral independent periodic discharges)]]
*[[TIRDA (temporal intermittent rhythmic delta activity)]]
*[[OIRDA (occipital intermittent rhythmic delta activity)]]
*[[GPD (Generalized periodic discharges)]]

'''Encephalopathic'''

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*[[FIRDA (frontal intermittent rhythmic delta activity)]]

'''Focal abnormalities'''

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*[[Zeta waves]]

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*[[Angelman syndrome]]
*[[Benign childhood Epilepsy with CentroTemporal Spikes (=BECTS) or Rolandic epilepsy]]
*[[Childhood Absence Epilepsy]]
*[[CSWS (Continuous spike and wave during slow wave sleep)]]
*[[Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy]]
*[[Landau Kleffner Syndrome (LKS)]]
*[[Lennox Gastaut Syndrome]]
*[[Panayiotopoulos Syndrome]]
*[[West Syndrome (Infantile Spasm)]]

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''What is the most probable syndrome of this 5 year old girl (source EEG)''

[[ Panayiotopoulos Syndrome | Click here for the correct answer ]]

[[ EEG of the month | Previous EEG of the month ]]
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'''Martin Herklots, MD'''<br />
Neurology resident, ETZ hospital, Tilburg, The Netherlands<br />
''Founder and author''<br />
'''Geert Brekelmans, MD, PhD'''<br />
Neurologist, ETZ hospital, Tilburg, The Netherlands<br />
''Author and EEG examples''<br />
'''Bas Jongbloed, MD'''<br />
Neurology resident, ETZ hospital, Tilburg, The Netherlands<br />
''Author''
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