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EEG-fMRI in Psychiatry

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Both fMRI and EEG have made significant contributions to understanding the brain, brain diseases and their consequences for mental illness. The development of the simultaneous EEG-fMRI measurement in the last two decades offered new possibilities for the joint analysis of data from EEG and fMRI. Accordingly, this chapter examines whether current issues in psychiatry can be investigated better with simultaneous EEG-fMRI than with the individual methods. Simultaneous EEG-fMRI is expected to have the potential to provide more comprehensive insights into electrophysiological oscillatory activity and haemodynamic network activation in the brain under various mental conditions. The current chapter shows that the use of simultaneous EEG-fMRI measurement has contributed to advances in psychiatric research. The method has been used for a variety of psychiatric conditions and has shown subtle changes in the brain. Progress has also been made in the development and reliability of various methods for combined EEG-fMRI studies. However, the heterogeneity of the methods and implementations could also prove to be a disadvantage with regard to the reproducibility of the results. Replication studies are largely lacking. Another point is that there is still a lack of comprehensive models of psychiatric illness that go well beyond the symptom level. Therefore, the chance to identify reliable and specific biomarkers is currently limited. Overall, it is to be expected that the progress achieved and expected through simultaneous EEG-fMRI methods will contribute to a better understanding and improved diagnosis of psychiatric diseases.

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Sammer, G., Mulert, C. (2022). EEG-fMRI in Psychiatry. In: Mulert, C., Lemieux, L. (eds) EEG - fMRI. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07121-8_20

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