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Functional Assessment of Human Brain with Non-Invasive Electrophysiological Methods

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Conventional electroencephalography (EEG) and event-related brain measurements (ERPs) provide unique non-invasive approaches to study in-vivo human cerebral functions with a temporal resolution of milliseconds. These techniques have proved to be helpful to assess cognitive abilities, differentiate between brain states, and support the diagnosis in neurological and psychiatric diseases. Human neurophysiological correlates of learning have also been revealed by task-dependent increases in gamma EEG coherence and amplitude modulations of specific brain evoked components at different levels of information processing. Changes in spontaneous and evoked brain responses can be also used to explore the role of sleep in both sensory function and memory consolidation. All together, these lines of evidence suggest that EEG and ERP techniques will remain omnipresent in those research and clinical environments devoted to assess certain human brain functions with non-invasive neurophysiological techniques.

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Cantero, J.L., Atienza, M. (2004). Functional Assessment of Human Brain with Non-Invasive Electrophysiological Methods. In: Herdegen, T., Delgado-García, J. (eds) Brain Damage and Repair. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-2541-6_41

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