Brain Function and Oscillations: Brain Oscillations. Principles and Approaches

✍ Scribed by Professor Dr. Erol Başar (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 380
• Series: Springer Series in Synergetics
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book establishes a brain theory based on neural oscillations with a temporal relation to a well-defined event. New findings about oscillations at the cellular level show striking parallels with EEG and MEG measurements. The authors embrace both the level of single neurons and that of the brain as a whole, showing how this approach advances our knowledge about the functional significance of the brain's electrical activity. They are related to sensory and cognitive tasks, leading towards an "integrative neurophysiology". The book will appeal to scientists and graduate students.
This two-volume treatise has the special features that:
- powerful mathematical algorithms are used;
- concepts of synergetics, synchronization of cell assemblies provide a new theory of evoked potentials;
- the EEG frequencies are considered as a type of alphabet of brain function;
- based on the results described, brain oscillations are correlated with multiple functions, including sensory registration, perception, movement and cognitive processes related to attention,learning and memory;
- the superposition principle of event-related oscillations and brain Feynmann diagrams are introduced as metaphors from quantum theory.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XXXIII
Prologue: From “Brain Dynamics” Towards “Brain Oscillatory Theory”....Pages 1-9
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Brain Dynamics and Brain Codes....Pages 13-20
Electrical Signals from the Brain....Pages 21-38
The Brain: Sensory and Cognitive Pathways....Pages 39-74
Brain Dynamics Research Program....Pages 75-105
Wavelet Analysis of Brain Waves....Pages 107-122
Phase Locking of Oscillatory Responses — An Informative Approach for Studying Evoked Brain Activity....Pages 123-128
Resonance Phenomena in the Brain, Physical Systems, and Nature....Pages 129-144
Front Matter....Pages 145-145
Event-Related Oscillations in the Brain....Pages 147-151
Correlation Between Unit Activity and Activity of Neural Populations....Pages 153-167
Chaos in Brain Function....Pages 169-195
Front Matter....Pages 197-197
Brain Synergetics: Frequency Locking of EEG: Order out of Chaos....Pages 199-218
Major Operating Rhythms (MOR) Control the Shape and Time Course of Evoked Potentials....Pages 219-238
Oscillatory Brain Responses: Changes with Development and Aging....Pages 239-251
Brain Response Susceptibility....Pages 253-264
The Evoked Potential Manifests a Superposition of Event-Related Oscillations....Pages 265-273
Multiple Sclerosis — Break of the Alpha Response....Pages 275-286
Brain Feynman Diagrams....Pages 287-291
Oscillatory Components of Evoked Potentials are Real Brain Responses Related to Function....Pages 293-325
Toward a Theory of Brain Oscillations....Pages 327-329
Back Matter....Pages 331-365

✦ Subjects

Biophysics and Biological Physics;Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity;Neurosciences;Biomedical Engineering