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Electrophysiological recordings of brain activity Flashcards

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What are the features of Micro-electrode recordings?

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  • Highly invasive - require surgery
  • High temporal resolution - Measures spikes and post-synaptic potentials
  • High spatial resolution - measures activity at the source
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What are the features of EEG/ERP?

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  • Non invasive
  • Measures post-synaptic potentials
  • High temporal resolution - fast electrical processes
  • Low spatial resolution
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What are the features of PET?

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  • Moderately invasive - radioactivity
  • Measures metabolic correlates of neural activity (blood flow etc)
  • High spatial resolution
  • Low temporal resolution
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What are the features of fMRI?

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  • Non invasive
  • Indirectly measures metabolic correlates of neural activity
  • Highest spatial resolution
  • Low temporal resolution
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What is micro-electrode recordings also known as?

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Single-cell recordings

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When are M-E recordings only administered?

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During brain surgery

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What is typically measured in M-E recordings?

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Firing rate - frequency of action potential

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What is the advantage of M-E recordings?

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Most direct and precise measure of brain activity

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What are the disadvantages of M-E recordings?

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  • Restricted in terms of patients and brain areas to be studied as its invasive
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What other type of M-E recordings can be used (non-invasive)?

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Electroencephalogram (EEG)

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What is EEG?

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Change of voltage recorded from sensors on scalp

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What is the field potential?

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Potential measured outside the neurone

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Where is EEG most sensitive to activity?

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Cortical tissue - closest to scalp

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What is the examination of how rapidly an EEG signal oscillates called?

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Frequency/spectral analysis

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What is frequency analysis?

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Number of oscillations per unit of time

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What is a higher frequency activity of EEG associated with?

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Greater cortical activity

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Why is EEG better than fMRi?

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Cheaper, more portable

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What do event related potentials (ERPs) refer to?

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Methodology of analysing EEG recordings by extracting from the EEG segments time-locked to specific events

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How are ERPs recorded?

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Averaging segments

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What are the strengths of EEGs?

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  • High temporal resolution - provides detailed temporal info about the processing of stimulus
  • Frequency analysis allows us to study things like sleep and epilepsy
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What are the limitations of EEGs?

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  • Limited spatial resolution
  • Unable to localise activity in the brain with precision due to complexity of inverse problem

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