EEG-fMRI for the Investigation of Brain Function in Health and Disease

Call for Papers

In the last years magnetic resonance applications made remarkable advances in the investigation of brain structure and function. Multimodal approaches characterized great part of these advances made possible by the development of new data acquisition techniques and many related processing and analysis methods. Especially the combined study of electrical activity related to neurons at work by EEG and their hemodynamic counterpart, measured by fMRI, holds great promise for studying brain function. By this approach, it is possible to achieve simultaneous information at a high temporal and anatomic resolution that cannot be obtained by either technique on its own, and insights into neuronal processes and neurovascular coupling in both physiologic and pathologic conditions can be gained. Particular attention is focused on the applications in cognitive neuroscience, where EEG-fMRI may represent a powerful tool for the investigation of mental processing components. The study of spontaneous brain activity, in both health and disease conditions, is another branch that involves this technique, and since several years particular interest has been devoted to the study of epilepsy.

We invite researchers to submit their new findings for research articles as well as review articles in the area of the combined use of EEG and magnetic resonance for the study of brain function. We mainly focus on methodological works, data interpretation as well as applications. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Methods:
  • Hardware development
  • MRI artifact removal from EEG traces
  • MRI-driven EEG dipole modeling
• Data interpretation:
  • Relation between BOLD and EEG signals
  • Neurovascular coupling in relation to different EEG frequency bands
  • Mathematical modeling of electrical activity and neurovascular coupling
• Applications:
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Spontaneous activity
  • Evoked potentials
  • CNS disease

Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijbi/guidelines/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable:

Lead Guest Editor

• Girolamo Garreffa, Centro Studi e Ricerche Enrico Fermi, Sapienza Università di Roma, Piazza del Viminale 1, 00184 Rome, Italy

Guest Editors

• Gisella Hagberg, Santa Lucia Scientific Foundation, IRCCS via Ardeatina 306, 00179 Rome Italy; Max Planck, Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Department of Physiology of Cognitive Processes, Spemannstraße 38, 72076 Tubingen, Italy
• Stefano Seri, School of Life and Health Sciences, Aston University, Aston Triangle, Birmingham, UK