Neurodiagnostic Labs

Services

Neurodiagnostic lab services available for both inpatients and outpatients include:

• Electroencephalogram (EEG): Measures the spontaneous electrical activity of the brain with small sensors that are placed on your scalp. The types of EEGs available include:
  • Routine EEG: Awake, sleep, and sleep-deprived
  • Ambulatory EEG: Portable monitor you take home with you for 24 to 72 hours
  • 4- or 8-hour EEG with video
  • Long term EEG and video monitoring: Inpatient study at the hospital
    
    
• Autonomic testing, including thermoregulatory sweat testing (TST): Assesses how your autonomic nervous system reacts to stimuli to determine which parts of the system are functioning and which are not functioning
• Botulinum toxin injections: Treatment using a group of medications for a variety of neurologic disorders, such as repetitive muscle spasms (cervical and other dystonias), spasticity, excessive salivation (sialorrhea), and chronic migraines
• Electromyograms (EMG): A procedure to evaluate the electrical activity of muscles and their associated nerves
• Evoked Potentials (EP): Measures your brain’s electrical activity in response to external auditory, visual, or electrical stimuli
• Intraoperative Neurophysiologic Monitoring (IONM): Electrophysiologic testing used to monitor the functional integrity of the nervous system during surgery and improve patient safety
• Long-term Monitoring for Epilepsy (LTME): Monitoring method used to capture and assess seizures through specialized EEGs and videos in our Epilepsy Monitoring Unit
• Nerve Conduction Velocity studies (NCV): Measures the speed of conduction of an electrical impulse through one of your nerves to assess nerve damage and destruction
• Movement Analysis Evaluations: Evaluates motion, gait, and balance in individuals with movement disorders
• Transcranial Doppler (TCD): Measures the rate of blood flow in your brain
• Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS): A noninvasive investigational treatment procedure that uses magnetic field pulses to stimulate electrical activity in your brain in regions where seizures originate. It is used for epilepsy that cannot be controlled by medications.
• Neuromodultation Room: Neuromodulation techniques counteract neuronal synchrony that is believed to cause tinnitus. A sound proof booth in the room is used to deliver auditory stimuli to produce neuromodulation effects.