Title
Probing For Cortical Excitability
Abstract
This paper introduces a new method for measuring cortical excitability using an electrical probing stimulus via intracranial electroencephalography (iEEG). Stimuli consisted of 100 single bi-phasic pulses, delivered every 10 minutes. Neural excitability is estimated by extracting a feature from the iEEG responses to the stimuli, which we dub the mean phase variance (PV). We show that the mean PV increases with the rate of inter-ictal discharges in one patient. In another patient, we show that the mean PV changes with sleep and an epileptic seizure. The results demonstrate a proof-of-principal for the method to be applied in a seizure anticipation framework.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6090474
2011 ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY (EMBC)
Keywords
Field
DocType
feature extraction,electroencephalography,electrodes,sleep,neurophysiology
Neuroscience,Neurophysiology,Computer science,Anticipation,Epilepsy,Epileptic seizure,Intracranial Electroencephalography,Stimulus (physiology),Electroencephalography,Temporal lobe
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
2011
1557-170X
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
11