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Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 452503, 15 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/452503
Research Article

Source Space Analysis of Event-Related Dynamic Reorganization of Brain Networks

Andreas A. Ioannides,1 Stavros I. Dimitriadis,2 George A. Saridis,1 Marotesa Voultsidou,1 Vahe Poghosyan,1 Lichan Liu,1 and Nikolaos A. Laskaris2

1Laboratory for Human Brain Dynamics, AAI Scientific Cultural Services Ltd., Office 501 Galaxias Center, 33 Arch. Makarios III Avenue, 1065 Nicosia, Cyprus
2Artificial Intelligence & Information Analysis Laboratory, Department of Informatics, Aristotle University, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece

Received 2 April 2012; Revised 5 June 2012; Accepted 10 August 2012

Academic Editor: Tianzi Jiang

Copyright © 2012 Andreas A. Ioannides et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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