Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and Electronecephalography (EEG) are very important and complementary modalities since fMRI offers high spatial resolution and EEG is a direct measurement of neuronal activity with high temporal resolution. Interest in the integration of both types of data is growing rapidly as it promises to provide important new insights into human brain activity as it has already done so in the field of epilepsy. The availability of good quality instrumentation capable of providing interference-free data in both modalities means that electrophysiological and haemodynamic characteristics of individual brain events can be captured for the first time. Consequently, it seems certain that the integration of fMRI and EEG will play an increasing role in neuroscience and of the clinical study of brain disorders such as epilepsy.

The proposed book will discuss in detail the physiological principles, practical aspects of measurement, artefact reduction and analysis and also applications of the integration of fMRI and EEG. All applications, which are mainly in the fields of sleep research, cognitive neuroscience and clinical use in neurology and psychiatry will be reviewed.

Background

Principles of Multimodal Functional Imaging and Data Integration
EEG: Origin and Measurement
The Basics of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Locally Measured Neuronal Correlates of Functional MRI Signals
What Can fMRI Add to the ERP Story?
The Added Value of EEG-fMRI in Imaging Neuroscience
Technical and Methodological Aspects of Combined EEG-fMRI Experiments
EEG Instrumentation and Safety
EEG Quality: Origin and Reduction of the EEG Cardiac-Related Artefact
EEG Quality:The Image Acquisition Artefact
Image Quality Issues
Specific Issues Related to EEG-fMRI at B 0 3 T
Experimental Design and Data Analysis Strategies
Applications of EEG-fMRI
Brain Rhythms
Sleep
EEG-fMRI in Adults with Focal Epilepsy
EEG-fMRI in Idiopathic Generalised Epilepsy (Adults)
EEG-fMRI in Children with Epilepsy
Combining EEG and fMRI in Pain Research
Simultaneous EEG and fMRI of the Human Auditory System
Visual System
Cognition
Neuronal Models for EEG-fMRI Integration
BOLD Response and EEG Gamma Oscillations
EEG-fMRI in Animal Models
EEG-fMRI Information Fusion: Biophysics and Data Analysis.