Abstract
To understand why and how neuroelectric potentials, such as evoked potentials, may change as a result of surgical manipulations, it is necessary to understand the basic principles underlying the generation of such neuroelectric potentials that can be recorded from various parts of the nervous system. In this book, we discuss electrical potentials that are generated in response to intentional stimulation, and we will describe how the waveform of such recorded potentials may change as a result of injury to nerves or nuclei. It is also important to understand the nature of the responses that may be elicited by surgical manipulations of neural tissue and from surgically-induced injuries. Further, it is important to know where in the nervous system specific components of the recorded evoked potentials are generated, so that the exact anatomical location of an injury can be identified on the basis of changes in specific components of the electrical potentials that are being monitored.
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Møller, A.R. (2011). Generation of Electrical Activity in the Nervous System and Muscles. In: Intraoperative Neurophysiological Monitoring. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7436-5_3
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