Neuroimaging
Neuroimaging

Author: Yongxia Zhou

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2020-06-24

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 1789844304

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In vivo brain neuroimaging with cutting-edge technologies has achieved great success with high spatial and temporal resolutions. Several distinct medical imaging perspectives such as disease neurobiology, multimodal imaging techniques and applications, large-size clinical trials of neuro-oncology, and bioinformatics with illustrative examples and comprehensive summaries could expand our knowledge of neuroimaging mechanism, methodologies, and applications. This book highlights the possibility and achievement of early detection and multiple neuroimaging biomarkers based on various features for pathophysiological probing and therapeutic prevention. It examines the use of neuroimaging techniques such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), electroencephalography (EEG), and near-infrared resonance spectroscopy (NIRS) with specific and innovative biomedical applications. It provides thorough reviews, accurate descriptions, and confirmative evidences of many related important research topics together with up-to-date imaging network management.

Multimodal Neuroimaging with Simultaneous Electroencephalogram and High-field Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Multimodal Neuroimaging with Simultaneous Electroencephalogram and High-field Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Author: Patrick Lee Purdon

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13:

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(Cont.) Simultaneous recordings of ASSR and fMRI reveal that spontaneous fluctuations in the amplitude of the ASSR are represented throughout the auditory system, from cortex to brainstem, suggesting that brainstem structures play an important role in generating the 40-Hz ASSR and that integration of sensory information across multiple hierarchical scales, including the earliest portions of the central nervous system, may constitute an important component of awareness or arousal.

Comparative Neuropsychology and Brain Imaging
Comparative Neuropsychology and Brain Imaging

Author: David Emmans

Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 475

ISBN-13: 3643906536

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This volume is a special commemorative publication in honor of Professor Dr. Ulrike Halsband, from the University of Freiburg in Germany, on the occasion of her 60th birthday, and includes chapters specially written for the volume, with recent views, reviews and results on such fields as functioneuroanatomytomy, neuropsychology, education, animal behavior, altered states of consciousness, hypnosis and the history of psychology in Germany. The contributors are internationally well-known scholars from academic and clinical institutions abroad in Europe. --

Simultaneous EEG and fMRI
Simultaneous EEG and fMRI

Author: Markus Ullsperger

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2010-05-28

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 0190451777

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One of the major challenges in science is to study and understand the human brain. Numerous methods examining different aspects of brain functions have been developed and employed. To study systemic interactions brain networks in vivo, non-invasive methods such as electroencephalography (EEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) have been used with great success. However, each of these methods can map only certain, quite selective aspects of brain function while missing others; and the inferences on neuronal processes and information flow are often rather indirect. To overcome these shortcomings of single methods, researchers have attempted to combine methods in order to make optimal use of their advantages while compensating their disadvantages. Hence, it is not surprising that soon after the introduction of fMRI as a neuroimaging method the possibilities of combinations with EEG have been explored. This book is intended to aid researchers who plan to set up a simultaneous EEG-fMRI laboratory and those who are interested in integrating electrophysiological and hemodynamic data. As will be obvious from the different chapters, this is a dynamically developing field in which several approaches are being tested, validated and compared. Currently, there is no one best solution for all problems available, but many promising techniques are emerging. This book shall give a comprehensive overview of these techniques. In addition, it points to open questions and directions for future research.

Dynamic Brain - from Neural Spikes to Behaviors
Dynamic Brain - from Neural Spikes to Behaviors

Author: Maria Marinaro

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2008-10-23

Total Pages: 149

ISBN-13: 3540888527

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This book is devoted to graduate students and researchers with different scientific background (including physics, mathematics, biology, neuroscience, etc.) who wish to learn brain science beyond the boundary of their fields. The volume presents 12 thoroughly revised tutorial papers based on lectures given by leading researchers at the 12th International Summer School on Neural Networks in Erice, Italy, in December 2007. The 12 invited and contributed papers presented provide primarily high-level tutorial coverage of the fields related to neuraldynamics, reporting recent experimental and theoretical results investigating the role of collective dynamics in hippocampal and parahippocampal regions and in the mammalian olfactory system. The book is divided into topical sections on hippocampus and neural oscillations, dynamics in olfactory system and behaviour, correlation structure of spiking trains, and neural network theories on associative memory.

The Oxford Companion to Consciousness
The Oxford Companion to Consciousness

Author: Tim Bayne

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2014-02-27

Total Pages: 670

ISBN-13: 0191021032

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Consciousness is undoubtedly one of the last remaining scientific mysteries and hence one of the greatest contemporary scientific challenges. How does the brain's activity result in the rich phenomenology that characterizes our waking life? Are animals conscious? Why did consciousness evolve? How does science proceed to answer such questions? Can we define what consciousness is? Can we measure it? Can we use experimental results to further our understanding of disorders of consciousness, such as those seen in schizophrenia, delirium, or altered states of consciousness? These questions are at the heart of contemporary research in the domain. Answering them requires a fundamentally interdisciplinary approach that engages not only philosophers, but also neuroscientists and psychologists in a joint effort to develop novel approaches that reflect both the stunning recent advances in imaging methods as well as the continuing refinement of our concepts of consciousness. In this light, the Oxford Companion to Consciousness is the most complete authoritative survey of contemporary research on consciousness. Five years in the making and including over 250 concise entries written by leaders in the field, the volume covers both fundamental knowledge as well as more recent advances in this rapidly changing domain. Structured as an easy-to-use dictionary and extensively cross-referenced, the Companion offers contributions from philosophy of mind to neuroscience, from experimental psychology to clinical findings, so reflecting the profoundly interdisciplinary nature of the domain. Particular care has been taken to ensure that each of the entries is accessible to the general reader and that the overall volume represents a comprehensive snapshot of the contemporary study of consciousness. The result is a unique compendium that will prove indispensable to anyone interested in consciousness, from beginning students wishing to clarify a concept to professional consciousness researchers looking for the best characterization of a particular phenomenon.

Optical Methods and Instrumentation in Brain Imaging and Therapy
Optical Methods and Instrumentation in Brain Imaging and Therapy

Author: Steen J. Madsen

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-11-13

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 1461449782

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This book provides a comprehensive up-to-date review of optical approaches used in brain imaging and therapy. It covers a variety of imaging approaches including diffuse optical imaging, laser speckle imaging, photoacoustic imaging and optical coherence tomography. A number of laser-based therapeutic techniques are reviewed, including photodynamic therapy, fluorescence guided resection and photothermal therapy. Fundamental principles and instrumentation are discussed for each imaging and therapeutic approach.