Brain Mapping Research Progress

Brain mapping is a set of neuroscience techniques predicated on the mapping of (biological) quantities or properties onto spatial representations of the (human or non-human) brain resulting in maps. All neuroimaging can be considered to be a part of brain mapping. Brain mapping techniques are constantly evolving, and rely on the development and refinement of image acquisition, representation, analysis, visualization and interpretation techniques. Functional and structural neuroimaging are at the core of the mapping aspect of brain mapping. This book presents the latest research in the field. An algorithm dedicated at discriminating between electrodes that lead to a seizure onset as opposed to those electrodes that do not, are examined in this book by using interictal subdural EEG data. The most effective method for localizing the effects of neural activation throughout the human brain is Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI). This book provides a new level of specificity in the basis of advanced approaches of using fMRI to study brain function as deep as at the level of the neural processing. Programmed cell death or apoptosis is a relevant process in the physiology and pathology of the nervous system. DNA damage response in postmitotic neurons is discussed and the elucidation of these mechanisms, which promise to provide multiple points of therapeutic intervention in neurodegenerative diseases, are examined as well. This book explains the temporal features of brain injury in three different developmental models of oxygen deprivation, capable of inducing apoptotic cell death. The hallmarks of hypoxia-induced apoptosis that may vary according to brain maturity, are also looked at. In addition, the neuroprotective effect of transplants of Neural Stem Cells (NSCs) after experimental traumatic brain injury were investigated and are discussed in this book. Neural signal estimation through time-resolved functional imaging / C.W. Tyler and L.T. Likova DNA damage response and apoptosis of postmitotic neurons / Inna I. Kruman, Elena I. Schwartz Hallmarks of appoptic-like cell death in response to hypoxic injury in various developmental models are closely related to brain immaturity / Jean-Luc Daval, Christiane Charriaut-Marlangue The use of neural stem cells in treating traumatic brain injury in rats / Shu-Yuan Yang, Hui Liu Laboratory memory tasks and autobiographical recollection : cognitive and neurofunctional evidence for differential forms of episodic memory / Martina Piefke Brain electric source imaging by an iterative correlation matrix based multiple signal classification approach / Dezhong Yao Mapping of brain operational architectonics / Andrew A. Fingelkurts and Alexander A. Fingelkurts Brainstem mechanisms in anxiety and panic / Marcus L. Brandao ... [et al.] Phase synchronization at different frequency bands induced by the emotional film stimuli of happiness, sadness, and fear / Tommaso Costa ... [et al.].