Electric Fields of the Brain: The Neurophysics of EEG

Abstract

1. The physics-EEG interface 2. Fallacies in EEG 3. An overview of electromagnetic fields 4. Electric fields and currents in biological tissue 5. Current sources in a homogeneous and isotropic medium 6. Current sources in inhomogeneous and isotropic media 7. Recording strategies, reference issues, and dipole localization 8. High-resolution EEG 9. Measures of EEG dynamic properties 10. Spatial-temporal properties of EEG 11. Neocortical dynamics, EEG, and cognition APPENDICES A. Introduction to the calculus of vector fields B. Quasi-static reduction of Maxwell's equations C. Surface magnetic field due to a dipole at an arbitrary location in a volume conductor D. Derivation of the membrane diffusion equation E. Solutions to the membrane diffusion equation F. Point source in a five layered plane medium G. Radial dipole and dipole layer inside the 4-sphere model H. Tangential dipole inside concentric spherical shells I. Spherical harmonics J. The spline Laplacian K. Impressed currents and cross-scale relations in volume conductors L. Outline of neocortical dynamic global theory