Single Neuron Studies of the Human Brain : Probing Cognition.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (391 pages)
- The MIT Press Series .
- The MIT Press Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Open Letter to a Beginning Researcher in the Field of Human Single Neuron Investigations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Fifty-plus Years of Human Single Neuron Recordings: A Personal Perspective -- I METHODOLOGICAL, ETHICAL, AND CLINICAL CONSIDERATIONS -- 3 The Neurosurgical Theater of the Mind -- 4 Ethical and Practical Considerations for Human Microelectrode Recording Studies -- 5 Subchronic In Vivo Human Microelectrode Recording -- 6 Data Analysis Techniques for Human Microwire Recordings: Spike Detection and Sorting, Decoding, Relation between Neurons and Local Field Potentials -- II COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE FINDINGS AND INSIGHTS -- 7 Single Neuron Correlates of Declarative Memory Formation and Retrieval in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe -- 8 Visual Cognitive Adventures of Single Neurons in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe -- 9 Navigating Our Environment: Insights from Single Neuron Recordings in the Human Brain -- 10 Microelectrode Studies of Human Sleep -- 11 Studying Thoughts and Deliberations Using Single Neuron Recordings in Humans -- 12 Human Single Neuron Reward Processing in the Basal Ganglia and Anterior Cingulate -- 13 Electrophysiological Responses to Faces in the Human Amygdala -- 14 Human Lateral Temporal Cortical Single Neuron Activity during Language, Recent Memory, and Learning -- III CLINICAL NEUROSCIENCE -- 15 Microelectrode Recordings in Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery -- 16 Microstimulation Effects on Thalamic Neurons -- 17 Human Single Unit Activity for Reach and Grasp Motor Prostheses -- 18 Human Single Neuron Recording as an Approach to Understand the Neurophysiology of Seizure Generation -- IV CONCLUSIONS -- 19 The Next Ten Years and Beyond -- Contributors -- Index -- Color Plates.
Foundational studies of the activities of spiking neurons in the awake and behaving human brain and the insights they yield into cognitive and clinical phenomena.