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Applying neurophysiological methods to the study of brain-behavior relationships proved to be a major advance in the early days of neuroscience research. Considerable technological progress has been made very recently, and the impact on modern neuroscience will be invaluable. In Electrophysiological Recording Techniques, experts in the field present a current view of the widespread application of electrophysiological methods to the study of the brain and to the problem of brain-behavior relationships. The book has been organized to display the range of modern neurophysiological methods ranging from the recordings of single neurons and neuronal ensembles to recordings of field potentials within discrete brain regions and across multiple brain areas. Many of the chapters also address the major challenge of applying the appropriate methods to analyze and interpret neurophysiological recording data. As a volume in the popular Neuromethods series, the chapters provide authoritative reviews of many commonly used approaches in the field today in both the basic research level and in clinical settings.Practical and up-to-date, Electrophysiological Recording Techniques serves as a key reference volume for researchers working in this ever-changing and vital field.
List of contents
Field Potential Generation and Current Source Density Analysis.- Current Source Density Analysis of Ongoing Neural Activity: Theory and Application.- The Juxtacellular Recording-Labeling Technique.- Neural Recording Using Digital Telemetry.- Large-Scale Neural Ensembles in Mice: Methods for Recording and Data Analysis.- Behavioral Correlates of Neuronal Activity Recorded as Single-Units: Promises and Pitfalls as Illustrated by the Rodent Head Direction Cell Signal.- Event-Related Potentials of the Cerebral Cortex.- Multisite Spike-Field Coherence, Theta Rhythmicity, and Information Flow Within Papez's Circuit.- Cognitively Relevant Recoding in Hippocampus: Beneficial Feedback of Ensemble Codes in a Closed Loop Paradigm.- An Intact Septo-Hippocampal Preparation for Investigating the Mechanisms of Hippocampal Oscillation.- Targeted Modulation of Neural Circuits: A New Treatment Strategy for Neuropsychiatric Disease.
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Applying neurophysiological methods to the study of brain-behavior relationships proved to be a major advance in the early days of neuroscience research.
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From the reviews:
“This book is highly recommended to trainees and neuroscientists, who are actively looking for the state-of-the-art recording techniques, to observe and study oscillating biological substrates that are linked to brain function and behavior. … The readers will be appreciative to the editors … and all authors, for the sufficient theoretical background, methodological descriptions and clear illustrations and discussions, in every single chapter.” (Miguel A. Cortez, Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences, Vol. 40 (2), March, 2013)
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From the reviews:
"This book is highly recommended to trainees and neuroscientists, who are actively looking for the state-of-the-art recording techniques, to observe and study oscillating biological substrates that are linked to brain function and behavior. ... The readers will be appreciative to the editors ... and all authors, for the sufficient theoretical background, methodological descriptions and clear illustrations and discussions, in every single chapter." (Miguel A. Cortez, Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences, Vol. 40 (2), March, 2013)
