Blume's Atlas of Pediatric and Adult Electroencephalographyedited by BlumeWarren T., HollowayGiannina M., KaibaraMasakoand YoungG. Bryan, 704 pp., Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2011, $293.04

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edited by Warren T. Blume, Giannina M. Holloway, Masako Kaibara, and G. Bryan Young, 704 pp., Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2011, $293.04 Blume's Atlas of Pediatric and Adult Electroencephalography is a stellar addition to the armamentarium of EEG atlases currently available and stands out as a comprehensive, valuable teaching tool for the learner at any stage in his or her career. It would be an excellent addition to the references on the bookshelf of a neurology resident, clinical neurophysiology fellow, pediatric neurologist, experienced electroencephalographer, or EEG technologist. This new second addition complements and updates the highly acclaimed first edition published in 1995, which only covered adult EEG. This second edition covers both adult and pediatric EEG, greatly expands upon information provided in chapters from the first edition, includes numerous new EEG examples, and adds new chapters, including EEG in the intensive care unit, the role of EEG in some pediatric and adult problems, and aspects of recording technique (which is helpful for EEG technologists or those opening up an EEG laboratory). Other chapters that were previously included in the first edition and also included in this edition but expanded upon are introduction, artifacts, normal EEG, epileptiform phenomena, and nonepileptiform abnormalities. Indeed, the second edition is 128 pages longer than the first and also includes online access to the hardcover edition as an e-book and provides access to online resources via the publisher's Web site using a unique access code. The e-book allows one to have access to the entire atlas on a laptop or tablet computer at any time with the ability to search for key terms and highlight text. The online resources consist of 282 additional EEG tracings covering the topics of polarity, seizures, and spikes. These online EEGs are accompanied by a detailed explanation within accompanying figure legends, and the EEG tracing itself can be saved as a .jpg or .pdf file. This online access to additional EEGs allows the depiction of the same waveforms on different montages, shows the evolution of seizure discharges over sequential samples of EEG, and includes a large sampling of spike-like artifacts compared to true epileptiform spikes.