EEG source identification: frequency analysis during sleep.
This article deals with a new approach in sleep characterization that combines EEG source localisation methods with standard frequency analysis of multielectrode EEGs. First, we describe the theoretical methodology and the benefits that we get from a three-dimensional image (LORETA) of the cerebral activity related to a frequency band. Then, this new application is used as signal-processing technique on sleep EEG recordings obtained from young male adults using four frequency bands (delta 0.5-3.5 Hz, theta 4.0-7.5 Hz, alpha 8.0-12.5 Hz and beta 13.0-32.0 Hz) in different sleep stages. Finally, we show that the obtained results are highly consistent with other physiological assessments (standard EEG mapping, functional magnetic resonance imaging, etc.), but give us more realistic additional information on the generators of electromagnetic cerebral activity.
Coatanhay
Arnaud
A
FORENAP, Institute for Research in Neuroscience and Psychiatry, 27, rue du 4e-RSM, 68250 Rouffach, France.
Soufflet
Laurent
L
Staner
Luc
L
Boeijinga
Peter
P
D000328:Adult; D000513:Alpha Rhythm; D001611:Beta Rhythm; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D001931:Brain Mapping / Q000379:methods; D003700:Delta Rhythm; D004569:Electroencephalography; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012894:Sleep Stages / Q000502:physiology*; D012895:Sleep, REM / Q000502:physiology; D013826:Theta Rhythm