Models for the Study of Cortical Activity During Cognitive ans Motor Tasks

Cona, Filippo (2012) Models for the Study of Cortical Activity During Cognitive ans Motor Tasks, [Dissertation thesis], Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna. Dottorato di ricerca in Bioingegneria, 24 Ciclo. DOI 10.6092/unibo/amsdottorato/4442.
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Abstract

This thesis is mainly devoted to show how EEG data and related phenomena can be reproduced and analyzed using mathematical models of neural masses (NMM). The aim is to describe some of these phenomena, to show in which ways the design of the models architecture is influenced by such phenomena, point out the difficulties of tuning the dozens of parameters of the models in order to reproduce the activity recorded with EEG systems during different kinds of experiments, and suggest some strategies to cope with these problems. In particular the chapters are organized as follows: chapter I gives a brief overview of the aims and issues addressed in the thesis; in chapter II the main characteristics of the cortical column, of the EEG signal and of the neural mass models will be presented, in order to show the relationships that hold between these entities; chapter III describes a study in which a NMM from the literature has been used to assess brain connectivity changes in tetraplegic patients; in chapter IV a modified version of the NMM is presented, which has been developed to overcomes some of the previous version’s intrinsic limitations; chapter V describes a study in which the new NMM has been used to reproduce the electrical activity evoked in the cortex by the transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS); chapter VI presents some preliminary results obtained in the simulation of the neural rhythms associated with memory recall; finally, some general conclusions are drawn in chapter VII.

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Tipologia del documento
Tesi di dottorato
Autore
Cona, Filippo
Supervisore
Dottorato di ricerca
Scuola di dottorato
Scienze e ingegneria dell'informazione
Ciclo
24
Coordinatore
Settore disciplinare
Settore concorsuale
Parole chiave
Cortical Rhythms Connectivity Neural Mass Models EEG
URN:NBN
DOI
10.6092/unibo/amsdottorato/4442
Data di discussione
20 Aprile 2012
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