Marjan Jahanshahi

The Bereitschaftspotential: Movement-Related Cortical Potentials Marjan Jahanshahi 2003 edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Introduction. The Bereitschaftspotential: What does it measure and where does it come from? M. Jahanshahi, M. Hallett. From Surface to Depth Electrodes. Surface recordings of the Bereitschaftspotential in normals; W. Lang. The Bereitschaftspotential and the conscious will/intention to act; B. Libet. Generator mechanisms of the Bereitschaftspotentials as studied by epicortical recording in patients with intractable partial epilepsy; A. Ikeda, H. Shibasaki. Intracerebral recordings of the Bereitschaftspotential and related potentials in cortical and subcortical structures in human subjects; I. Rektor. Dipole Source Modeling and the Generators of the Bereitschaftspotential. Distributed source modeling in the analysis of movement-related activity; R. Kristeva-Feige. Recordings of the movement-related potentials combined with PET, fMRI or MEG; C. D. MacKinnon. Generators of the movement-related cortical potentials and dipole source analysis; K. Toma, M. Hallett. The Bereitschaftspotential in Patient Groups. Surface recordings in patients with movement disorders and the impact of subcortical surgery; P. Praamstra, M. Jahanshahi, J. C. Rothwell. The Bereitschaftspotential in schizophrenia and depression; K. P. Westphal. Movement-related cortical potentials in patients with focal brain lesions; C. Gerloff. Other Related EEG Measures. Movement and ERD/ERS; G. Pfurtscheller, C. Neuper. CNV and SPN: Indices of anticipatory behavior; C. H. M. Brunia. The lateralized readiness potential; M. Eimer, M. G. H. Coles. Other Approaches to Measuring Motor Preparation. Movement selection, preparation, and the decision to act: neurophysiological studies in nonhuman primates; S. Wise. Movement preparation: neuroimaging studies; I. Toni, R. Passingham. Finale. Human freedom, reasoned will, and the brain: the Bereitschaftspotential story; L. Deecke, H. H. Kornhuber. Index. Publisher Marketing: Kornhuber and Deecke first recorded and reported the Bereitschaftspotential in 1964. The aim of this book is to bring together in a single volume some of the important research on the Bereitschaftspotential and other movement-related cortical potentials, highlight and address some of the pertinent questions relating to the Bereitschaftspotential and to identify the key issues for future investigation in this field.

Contributor Bio:  Hallett, Mark DOB: 22 Oct 1943. Dr Hallett is currently Chief of the Human Motor Control Section, Medical Neurology Branch. his research activities focus on the physiology of human voluntary movement and its pathophysiology in disordered voluntary movement and involuntary movement. Dr Hallet obtained his undergraduate and medical degree at Harvard University and had his neurology training at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He had fellowships in neurophysiology at the NIH and in the Department of Neurology, Institute of Psychiatry in London. Before coming to NIH, Dr Hallett was the Chief of the Clinical Neurophysiology Laboratory at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and Associate Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. Dr Hallett is active in the fields of Clinical Neurophysiology and Movement Disorders. He has served as the President of the American Association of Electrodiagnostic Medicine and the International Medical Society of Motor Disturbances and is now President of the Movement Disorder Society. Dr Hallett organised the first International Congress of Movement Disorders in Washington, DC. Dr Hallett serves on a number of editorial boards and medical advisory boards of lay organisations. He has published many scholarly contributions to the medical literature. He is well known for his work on the classification of myoclonus and his studies on the physiology and pathophysiology of voluntary movement including dystonia. He has been one of the pioneers in the use of transcranial magnetic stimulation for the study of the central nervous system and the therapeutic use of botulinum toxin. Recently a major focus of his research has been the plasticity of the human motor system.