The use of quantitative EEG (electroencephalography) for neurological monitoring and diagnosing neurological injury, as well as neurological and psychiatric disorders, is gaining acceptance among professionals and researchers working in this area. In this text, 49 international researchers and academics describe current methods for analysis of EEG recordings and their applications in several areas of brain research. Designed for clinical and experimental neuroscientists, the text covers the physiological foundations of quantitative EEG analysis, techniques for recording and preprocessing EEG, univariate and bivariate methods for EEG analysis, the EEG inverse problem, and various applications of quantitative EEG--detection/monitoring of epilepsy, brain injuries, general anesthesia, sleep stages in normal and pathological conditions; analyzing signatures of depression; controlled brain-computer interfaces; combining EEG and MRI; and cortical functional mapping. The accompanying CD-ROM contains high-resolution images of all the illustrations in the text. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)