Full Description
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and Electronecephalography (EEG) are very important and complementary modalities since fMRI offers high spatial resolution and EEG is a direct measurement of neuronal activity with high temporal resolution. Interest in the integration of both types of data is growing rapidly as it promises to provide important new insights into human brain activity as it has already done so in the field of epilepsy. The availability of good quality instrumentation capable of providing interference-free data in both modalities means that electrophysiological and haemodynamic characteristics of individual brain events can be captured for the first time. Consequently, it seems certain that the integration of fMRI and EEG will play an increasing role in neuroscience and of the clinical study of brain disorders such as epilepsy.
The proposed book will discuss in detail the physiological principles, practical aspects of measurement, artefact reduction and analysis and also applications of the integration of fMRI and EEG. All applications, which are mainly in the fields of sleep research, cognitive neuroscience and clinical use in neurology and psychiatry will be reviewed.
Contents
Background.- Principles of Multimodal Functional Imaging and Data Integration.- EEG: Origin and Measurement.- The Basics of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging.- Locally Measured Neuronal Correlates of Functional MRI Signals.- What Can fMRI Add to the ERP Story?.- The Added Value of EEG-fMRI in Imaging Neuroscience.- Technical and Methodological Aspects of Combined EEG-fMRI Experiments.- EEG Instrumentation and Safety.- EEG Quality: Origin and Reduction of the EEG Cardiac-Related Artefact.- EEG Quality:The Image Acquisition Artefact.- Image Quality Issues.- Specific Issues Related to EEG-fMRI at B 0 > 3 T.- Experimental Design and Data Analysis Strategies.- Applications of EEG-fMRI.- Brain Rhythms.- Sleep.- EEG-fMRI in Adults with Focal Epilepsy.- EEG-fMRI in Idiopathic Generalised Epilepsy (Adults).- EEG-fMRI in Children with Epilepsy.- Combining EEG and fMRI in Pain Research.- Simultaneous EEG and fMRI of the Human Auditory System.- Visual System.- Cognition.- Neuronal Models for EEG-fMRI Integration.- BOLD Response and EEG Gamma Oscillations.- EEG-fMRI in Animal Models.- EEG-fMRI Information Fusion: Biophysics and Data Analysis.
