Diagnostic Neurology
The laboratory performs EEGs, routine and intraoperative evoked potentials and video-EEG monitoring. More than 2,000 procedures are performed each year. On the 4th floor of Reynolds Tower, the laboratory operates a six-bed epilepsy monitoring unit (EMU) for diagnostic and presurgical video-EEG monitoring. The EMU and intra-operative electrocorticography are essential to the epilepsy surgery program. Vaughn McCall, M.D. of the Department of Psychiatry, directs the sleep laboratory. The responsibilities for interpretations of sleep studies are split between the Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology. Residents participate in a three-month rotation that concentrates on clinical epilepsy and EEG interpretation. A rotation in the interpretation of sleep studies and evoked potentials may be taken as an elective.