#electrocorticography

A novel neural prosthesis providing long-term electrocorticography recording and cortical stimulation for epilepsy and brain-computer interface

J Neurosurg 130:1166–1179, 2019

Wireless technology is a novel tool for the transmission of cortical signals. Wireless electrocorticography (ECoG) aims to improve the safety and diagnostic gain of procedures requiring invasive localization of seizure foci and also to provide long-term recording of brain activity for brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). However, no wireless devices aimed at…

A novel neural prosthesis providing long-term electrocorticography recording and cortical stimulation for epilepsy and brain-computer interface

J Neurosurg 130:1166–1179, 2019

Wireless technology is a novel tool for the transmission of cortical signals. Wireless electrocorticography (ECoG) aims to improve the safety and diagnostic gain of procedures requiring invasive localization of seizure foci and also to provide long-term recording of brain activity for brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). However, no wireless devices aimed at…

Epilepsy surgery in temporal lobe epilepsy due to mesial temporal sclerosis: the timeline in investigative work-up from the neurologist’s office to O.R.

Virginia Thornley, M.D. Neurologist, Epileptologist

March 26, 2018

Introduction

Temporal lobe epilepsy is one of the most common types of seizures. The most common cause and one of the most successfully treated causes of temporal lobe epilepsy treated through surgery is mesial temporal sclerosis. This article focuses on mesial temporal sclerosis and does not include discussions of other types of…

Passive language mapping combining real-time oscillation analysis with cortico-cortical evoked potentials for awake craniotomy

J Neurosurg 125:1580–1588, 2016

Electrocortical stimulation (ECS) is the gold standard for functional brain mapping; however, precise functional mapping is still difficult in patients with language deficits. High gamma activity (HGA) between 80 and 140 Hz on electrocorticography is assumed to reflect localized cortical processing, whereas the cortico-cortical evoked potential (CCEP) can reflect…

Passive language mapping combining real-time oscillation analysis with cortico-cortical evoked potentials for awake craniotomy

J Neurosurg 125:1580–1588, 2016

Electrocortical stimulation (ECS) is the gold standard for functional brain mapping; however, precise functional mapping is still difficult in patients with language deficits. High gamma activity (HGA) between 80 and 140 Hz on electrocorticography is assumed to reflect localized cortical processing, whereas the cortico-cortical evoked potential (CCEP) can reflect…

Researchers develop world's first thought-based 'brain-to-text' system. Thoughts health innovators? (Just think it;))

Speech is produced in the human cerebral cortex and previous studies have shown that the brain waves associated with speech processes can be directly recorded with electrodes located on the surface of the cortex. Now, researchers from the KIT and Wadsworth Center have shown for the first time that is possible to reconstruct basic units, words, and complete sentences of continuous speech from…

From Broca's area to Broca's aphasia: a tale of two eponyms. Featuring @adeenflinker's work!

The definitive version of this post was originally published on May 27, 2015 on the PLOS Neuroscience Community website, where I serve as an editor.

In 1861, the French scientific journal Bulletin de la Societe Anatomique published an article that would prove immeasurably important to the study of language and of the human brain [1]. The article described M. Leborgne, a middle-aged patient who…