Magnetoencephalography: From Signals to Dynamic Cortical Networks

ISBN-13: 9783662521113 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 1013 str.

Selma Supek; Cheryl Aine

Opis

This book surveys MEG basics and covers the latest methodological, empirical and clinical research. Includes tutorials on instrumentation, measurement, modeling and experimental design, discussion of open issues, future developments and new applications.

Spis treści

Part 1 : Tutorials on Measurement, Physical Basis of Analysis, and Experimental Design.- Part 2 : Source Analysis and Multi-Modal Integration.-Part 3 : Functional Connectivity and Oscillatory Activity.- Part 4 : Neurodevelopment Across Lifespan.- Part 5 : Basic and Clinical Studies.- Part 6 : Emerging Technologies

Blurb

"Magnetoencephalography (MEG) provides a time-accurate view into human brain function. The concerted action of neurons generates minute magnetic fields that can be detected---totally noninvasively---by sensitive multichannel magnetometers. The obtained millisecond accuracycomplements information obtained by other modern brain-imaging tools. Accurate timing is quintessential in normal brain function, often distorted in brain disorders. The noninvasiveness and time-sensitivityof MEG are great assets to developmental studies, as well.

This multiauthored book covers an ambitiously wide range of MEG research from introductory to advanced level, from sensors to signals, and from focal sources to the dynamics of cortical networks. Written by active practioners of this multidisciplinary field, the book contains tutorials for newcomers and chapters of new challenging methods and emerging technologies to advanced MEG users. The reader will obtain a firm grasp of the possibilities of MEG in the study of audition, vision, somatosensation, sensorimotor integration, pain, and cognitive functions both in healthy subjects and several neurological and psychiatric disorders. Development is covered from fetal and pediatric studies to the effects of aging. This volume brings fresh and welcome diversity to the existing MEG literature."

MEG book review by Riitta Hari, Academician of Science, Aalto University