Studying task-related activity of individual neurons in the human brain

Nature Protocols

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 949-957

  Patel, Shaun R ^a,b   Sheth, Sameer A ^c   Martinez Rubio, Clarissa ^a   Mian, Matthew K ^a   Asaad, Wael F ^d   Gerrard, Jason L ^e   Kwon, Churl Su ^a   Dougherty, Darin D ^a   Flaherty, Alice W ^a   Greenberg, Benjamin D ^f   Gale, John T ^g   Williams, Ziv M ^a   Eskandar, Emad N ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Department of Medicine   (United States)

^d Brown University Program in Neurosurgery   (United States)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDROMIC STIMULATION; BRAIN DEPTH RECORDING; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL FUNCTION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; WHITE MATTER;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMANS; MICROELECTRODES; NEURONS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 84877051464     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2013.050     Document Type: Review

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