Paul L. Nunez and Ramesh Srinivasan
Electroencephalography (EEG) is practiced by neurologists, cognitive neuroscientists, and others interested in functional brain imaging. Whether for clinical or experimental purposes, all studies share a common purpose-to relate scalp potentials to the underlying neurophysiology. Electrical
potentials on the scalp exhibit spatial and temporal patterns that depend on the nature and location of the sources and the way that currents and fields spread through tissue. Because these dynamic patterns are correlated with behavior and cognition, EEG provides a "window on the mind," correlating
physiology and psychology.
This classic and widely acclaimed text, originally published in 1981, filled the large gap between EEG and the physical sciences. It has now been brought completely up to date and will again serve as an invaluable resource for understanding the principles of
electric fields in living tissue and for using hard science to study human consciousness and cognition. No comparable volume exists for it is no easy task to explain the problems of EEG in clear language, with mathematics presented mainly in appendices. Among the many topics covered by the Second
Edition are micro and meso (intermediate scale) synaptic sources, electrode placement, choice of reference, volume conduction, power and coherence measures, projection of scalp potentials to dura surface, dynamic signatures of conscious experience, neural networks immersed in global fields of
synaptic action, and physiological bases for brain source dynamics. The Second Edition is an invaluable resource for neurologists, neuroscientists (especially cognitive neuroscientists), biomedical engineers, and their students and trainees. It will also appeal to physicists, mathematicians,
computer scientists, psychiatrists, and industrial engineers interested in EEG.
Preface
1. The physics-EEG interface
2. Fallacies in EEG
3. An overview of electromagnetic fields
4. Electric fields and currents in biological tissue
5. Current sources in a homogeneous and isotropic medium
6. Current sources in inhomogeneous media
7.
Recording strategies, reference issues, and dipole localization
8. High resolution EEG
9. Measures of EEG dynamic properties
10. Spatial-temporal properties of EEG
11. Neocortical dynamics, EEG, and cognition
Appendices
A. Introduction to the calculus of vector
fields
B. Quasi-static reduction of Maxwell's equations
C. Surface magnetic field due to a dipole at arbitrary location in a volume conductor
D. Derivation of the membrane diffusion equation
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E. Solutions to the membrane diffusion equation
F. Point source in
a five layered plane medium
G. Radial dipole and dipole layer inside concentric spherical shells
H. Tangential dipole inside concentric spherical shells
I. Spherical harmonics
J. The spline Laplacian
K. Impressed currents and cross-scale relations in volume conductors
L.
Outline of neocortical dynamic global theory
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Paul L. Nunez is at Tulane University.
