Michel C.M., Koenig T., Brandeis D., Gianotti L.R.R., Wackermann J. Electrical Neuroimaging

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. - 248p.Electrical neuroimaging is based on the analysis of brain electrical activity recorded from the human scalp with multichannel EEG. It offers enormous potential for the dynamic mapping of brain functions, and for the non-invasive diagnosis of neurological and psychiatric conditions. This authoritative reference gives a systematic overview of new electrical imaging methods, with a sound introduction to the basics of multichannel recording of EEG and event-related potential (ERP) data, as well as spatio-temporal analysis of the potential fields. The book enables researchers to measure valid data, select and apply appropriate analysis strategies, and avoid the most common mistakes when analyzing and interpreting EEG/ERP data. Importantly, it informs the research communities of the possibilities opened by these space-domain oriented approaches to the analysis of brain electrical activity, and of their potential to offer even more powerful diagnostic techniques when integrated with other clinically relevant data.From neuronal activity to scalp potential fields
Scalp field maps and their characterization
Imaging the electric neuronal generators of EEG/MEG
Data acquisition and pre-processing standards for electrical neuroimaging
Overview of analytical approaches
Electrical neuroimaging in the time domain
Multichannel frequency and time-frequency analysis
Statistical analysis of multichannel scalp field data
State space representation and global descriptors of brain electrical activity
Integration with other functional imaging methods