Main description:

This book provides an essential overview of the broad range of functional brain imaging techniques, as well as neuroscientific methods suitable for various scientific tasks in fundamental and clinical neuroscience. It also shares information on novel methods in computational neuroscience, mathematical algorithms, image processing, and applications to neuroscience.

The mammalian brain is a huge and complex network that consists of billions of neural and glial cells. Decoding how information is represented and processed by this neural network requires the ability to monitor the dynamics of large numbers of neurons at high temporal and spatial resolution over a large part of the brain. Functional brain optical imaging has seen more than thirty years of intensive development. Current light-using methods provide good sensitivity to functional changes through intrinsic contrast and are rapidly exploiting the growing availability of exogenous fluorescence probes. In addition, various types of functional brain optical imaging are now being used to reveal the brain's microanatomy and physiology.

Contents:

Chapter1:General descriptions on MRI.-Chapter2:Data analysis method for neuroimaging data: Task-related component analysis and its applications to fNIRS data.-Chapter3:Critical elements for connectivity analysis of brain networks.-Chapter4:Transcranial Dynamic Fluorescence Imaging for the Study of the Epileptic Seizures.-Chapter5:Neurons and Plasticity: what do glial cells have to do with this?.-Chapter6:Intrinsic signal optical imaging (ISOI): state-of-the-art with emphasis on pre-clinical and clinical studies.-Chapter7:Implantable devices for functional brain imaging.-Chapter8:Towards Automated Processing and Analysis of Neuronal Big Data Acquired using High-Resolution Brain-Chip Interfaces