Educative work ACTA.FAC.MED.NAISS. 1999; 16(3), 135-140

CLINICAL NEUROPHYSIOLOGY YESTERDAY, THE PRESENT DAY AND STEP INTO THE FUTURE

Stojanka Djurić
Clinic of Neurology, Clinical Centre, Niš

Owing to a rapid development of medical technique and technology, clinical neurophysiology has a significant place within diagnosis of numerous diseases as a modern interdisciplinary clinical discipline. Beginning from the most simple recordings of brain electrical activity with the simple galvanometer in 1875., neurophysiology has become a modern diagnostic branch comprisisng electroencephalography, electromyoneurography and evoked potentials. Each of the aforementioned fields nowadays at the disposal has various techniques and diagnostic tests with wide scope of indications-it may well be said that there is no clinical discipline that does not require applying at least one of the above fields. The development and use of computers in clinical neurophysiology contributed to its rapid development, so this discipline will step into the next millenium with novel technical possibilities enabling investigation of now inaccessible systems.

Key words: clinical neurophysiology, electroencephalography, electromyoneurography, evoked potentials.