Coordinated Activity in the Brain

- Preface

Chapter 1. Correlations of cellular activities in the nervous system: physiological and methodological considerations. Jose Luis Perez Velazquez, Ramon Guevara Erra, Richard Wennberg and Luis Garcia Dominguez

Chapter 2. Synchronization between sources: emerging methods for understanding large-scale functional networks in the human brain. Sam M. Doesburg and Lawrence M. Ward

Chapter 3. Approaches to the detection of direct directed interactions in neuronal networks. Ariane Schad, Jakob Nawrath, Michael Jachan, Kathrin Henschel, Linda Spindeler, Jens Timmer and Björn Schelter

Chapter 4. The phase oscillator approximation in neuroscience an analytical framework to study coherent activity in neural networks. Roberto F. Galán

Chapter 5. From synchronization to networks: assessment of functional connectivity in the brain. Cornelis J. Stam

Chapter 6. The size of neuronal assemblies, their frequency of synchronization and their cognitive function. Johannes Sarnthein and Astrid von Stein

Chapter 7. Synchrony in Neural Networks Underlying Seizure Generation in Human Partial Epilepsies. Fabrice Bartolomei and Fabrice Wendling

Chapter 8. Detection of phase synchronization in multivariate single brain signals by a clustering approach. Axel Hutt and Matthias H.J.Munk

Chapter 9. Denoising and averaging techniques for electrophysiological data. Matthias Ihrke, Hecke Schrobsdorff and J.Michael Herrmann

Chapter 10. Dissection of synchronous population discharges in vitro. Ivan Cohen and Liset Menendez de la Prida

Chapter 11. Time-frequency methods and brain rhythm signal processing. Jesse Gillis

Chapter 12. Complex network modeling: a new approach toneurosciences. Yamir Moreno Vega

J. L. Perez Velazquez was born in Zaragoza, Spain, and received the degree of 'Licenciado' in Chemistry (Biochemistry, universities of Zaragoza and Complutense of Madrid), and a PhD degree in 1992 from the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics at Baylor College of Medicine (Houston), homologated to Doctorate in Chemistry by the Spanish Ministry of Culture in 1997. He is an associate scientist in the Neuroscience and Mental Health Programme and the Brain and Behaviour Centre at the Hospital For Sick Children in Toronto, and an associate professor at the University of Toronto.

Richard Wennberg was born in Vancouver, Canada. He obtained the degree M.D. from the University of British Columbia in 1990 and completed a neurology residency at McGill University in 1994, followed by a fellowship in electroencephalography at the Montreal Neurological Institute. Currently, he is director of the clinical neurophysiology laboratory at the University Health Network, Toronto Western Hospital, associate professor of medicine at the University of Toronto, chair of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada examination board in neurology, and president of the Canadian League Against Epilepsy.