This exercise summarizes the basic brain processes in sleep and the use of the EEG (electroencephalogram; "brain waves") to measure sleep stages. It includes the following topics: ! sleep as an active process and brain areas that turn it on ! the EEG: how it is recorded and what it shows about brain activity ! the EEG for the two basic kinds of sleep, slow wave sleep (SWS) and rapid eye movemen...

A “smoking gun” for explicit top-down neocortical mechanisms that directly drive bottom-up processes that describe memory, attention, etc. The top-down mechanism considered are macrocolumnar EEG firings in neocortex, as described by a statistical mechanics of neocortical interactions (SMNI), developed as a magnetic vector potential A. The bottom-up process considered are Ca2+ waves prominent in...

A 69 year old man with longstanding migraine with aura had four episodes of psychosis lasting 7-28 days during a 17 year period. During attacks he had formed visual hallucination and delusions, including reduplicative paramnesia. His mother was similarly affected. His EEG showed symmetrical frontal delta waves. The time course and EEG changes are similar to acute confusional migraine. The redup...

Combined EEG/fMRI recording has been used to localize the generators of EEG events and to identify subject state in cognitive studies and is of increasing interest. However, the large EEG artifacts induced during fMRI have precluded simultaneous EEG and fMRI recording, restricting study design. Removing this artifact is difficult, as it normally exceeds EEG significantly and contains components...

Effect of intracerebroventricular (i.c.v.) ethanol on pre-optic area (POA) and hippocampus (HPC) was investigated by recording chronological changes in their electroencephalographic (EEG) activity, through chronically implanted cannulae and bipolar electrodes, in five conscious male beagle dogs. Recordings were made for two hours after microinjection and compared with cortical (CO) tracings. Th...

A brain-computer interface (BCI) system processes and translates neuronal signals, mainly from electroencephalogram (EEG) instruments, into commands for controlling electronic devices. This system can allow people with motor disabilities to control external devices through the real-time modulation of their brain waves. An EEG-based BCI system that allows creative luminous artistic representatio...

Recent pharmacological studies exploring the functional roles of muscarinic cholinergic receptor (mAChR) subtypes in prefrontal cortex of C57BL/6J (B6) mouse have provided evidence for a presynaptic M2 autoreceptor. The B6 mouse was chosen for these studies because it is a genetically well-characterized model that also provides the genomic background for many genetically modified mice. In addit...

We report four children with epilepsy with "continuous spike-waves during slow wave sleep" (CSWSS). The main clinical features were partial motor seizures, mental retardation and motor deficit. The EEG findings were characterized by nearly continuous (> 85%) diffuse slow spike and wave activity in two patients, and localized to one hemisphere in two other cases during non-REM sleep. The treatme...