Fifty Years of Magnetoencephalography

PREFACE Section One: The Beginnings 1. THE FIRST MEG REPORT: 1968 David Cohen Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2. THE BEGINNING OF BIOMAGNETISM AND MEG RESEARCH IN FINLAND IN THE 1970s Toivo Katila Helsinki University of Technology 3. A VIEW FROM NEAR THE BEGINNING OF MEG: AFTER HALF A CENTURY Lloyd Kaufman New York University Section Two: Technical Advances 4. PHYSIOLOGICAL BASES OF MEG AND EEG Yoshio Okada Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School 5. WHICH PART OF THE NEURONAL CURRENT CAN BE DETERMINED BY EEG? A.S. Fokas, P Hashemzadeh and R. Leahy University of Cambridge and University of Southern California 6. MEG SOURCE ESTIMATION: TRANSFORMING THE SENSOR-LEVEL SIGNALS TO ESTIMATES OF BRAIN ACTIVITY Matti S. Hämäläinen Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School 7. The Need for and the Road to Hybrid MEG-MRI Risto J. Ilmoniemi Aalto University School of Science 8. MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY USING OPTICALLY PUMPED MAGNETOMETERS Elena Boto, Niall Holmes, Tim Tierney, James Leggett, Ryan Hill, Stephanie Mellor, Gillian Roberts, Gareth Barnes, Richard Bowtell and Matt Brookes University of Nottingham and the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London Section Three: Applications to Epilepsy 9. GUIDELINES AND PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR MAPPING EPILEPTIFORM ACTIVITY WITH MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY Roozbeh Rezaie, James W. Wheless, and Abbas Babajani-Feremi. The University of Tennessee Health Science Center 10. BEYOND THE IRRITATIVE ZONE: USE OF MEG TO CHARACTERIZE ASPECTS OF THE EPILEPTOGENIC ZONE Eduardo M. Castillo, Tara Kleineschay, Milena Korostenskaja , James Baumgartner and Ki Hyeong Lee Florida Hospital for Children 11. USE OF MULTIPLE FREQUENCY BANDS IN MEG FOR CHARACTERIZATION OF EPILEPSY Woorim Jeong and Chun Kee Chung Seoul National University 12. CAN MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY IDENTIFY THE EPILEPTOGENIC PATHOLOGY IN CHILDREN? Won Seok Chang and Hiroshi Otsubo The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto 13. REVISIONAL ANALYSIS OF EEG AND MEG BASED ON COMPREHENSIVE EPILEPSY CONFERENCE Nobukazu Nakasato, Akitake Kanno, Makoto Ishida, Shin-ichiro Osawa, Masaki Iwasaki, Yosuke Kakisaka and Kazutaka Jin Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine 14. EPILEPTIC SLOW WAVE ACTIVITY Stefan Rampp and Martin Kaltenhäuser University Hospital, Erlangen University Section Four: Somatosensory, Motor and Language Mapping 15. CLINICAL MOTOR MAPPING WITH MEG: HISTORICAL APPROACHES, CHALLENGES AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR BEST PRACTICE William Gaetz, PhD. The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Christos Papadelis, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School and Tony Wilson, University of Nebraska Medical Center 16. INVESTIGATIONS OF THE SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM WITH MEG: FROM RESEARCH TO CLINICAL APPLICATIONS Xavier De Tiègeand Hôpital Erasme, Université libre de Bruxelles and Veikko Jousmäki, Aalto University School of Science and Nanyang Technological University 17. LANGUAGE MAPPING WITH MEG: CLINICAL AND RESEARCH APPLICATIONS Panagiotis G. Simos University of Crete, School of Medicine Susan M. Bowyer Henry Ford Hospital and Wayne State University Kyousuke Kamada Asahikawa Medical University Section Five: Exploring the Brain Mechanisms of Cognition 18. READING, READING ACQUISITION AND READING DISABILITY (DYSLEXIA) Panagiotis G. Simos University of Crete School of Medicine 19. MEG DECODING COGNITIVE FUNCTION WITH MEG Dimitrios Pantazis Massachusetts Institute of Technology 20. HOW BRAIN RHYTHMS REFLECT COGNITIVE PROCESSES Joachim Gross Westphalian-Wilhelms-University of Muenster Section Six: Neuronal Correlates of Cognitive and Affective Disorders 21. APPLICATIONS OF MEG TO AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER Kristina Safar, Margot J. Taylor, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto Junko Matsuzaki and Timothy P.L. Roberts Children's Hospital of Philadelphia 22. FUNCTIONAL WOUNDS OF AN INVISIBLE INJURY: VISUALIZING COGNITION IN PTSD Benjamin T. Dunkley and Margot J. Taylor Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto 23. IDENTIFYING NEURAL ABNORMALITIES IN SCHIZOPHRENIA J. Christopher Edgar Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Gregory A. Miller University of California, Los Angeles 24. BIOMARKERS IN PEDIATRIC MEG Julia M. Stephen, Isabel Solis, John F.L. Pinner, Felicha T. Candelaria-Cook The Mind Research Network, Lovelace Biomedical and Environmental Research Institute and The University of New Mexico 25. MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY IN Alzheimer's disease: CORRELATION WITH CURRENT BIOMARKERS David López-Sanz; Jaisalmer de Frutos-Lucas; Gianluca Susi, and Fernando Maestú, Complutense University of Madrid POSTSCRIPT