Study of cortical sybchronization and desynchronization associated with inferior members. / Estudo da sincronização e dessincronização cortical em EEG associada a movimento de membros inferiores.

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2006

RESUMO

The analysis of the electroencephalogram (EEG) enables the identification of a pre-movement activity associated with the execution of a known and pre-trained movement. The main frequency bands to achieve this identification are the delta, mu, beta and gamma. The initiation of the movement of the legs can be anticipated by thousands of milliseconds by a suitable analysis of the EEG. The objective of this work is to develop signal acquisition and signal processing methodologies associated with the scalp EEG during pre-movement trials. The EEG recordings are concentrated over the leg cortical area with the objective of identifying cortical synchronization and desynchronization (ERS/ERD) associated with trained movements. The number of available EEG channels was limited to five and one task was to investigate if this low number of channels would be enough for the purposes of monitoring cortical preparation. The results were consistent with those presented in the literature. In all subjects mu and beta desynchronization were observed and in half (four) of them the gamma band showed synchronization. One conclusion was that the cortical ERS/ERD associated with the lower limbs are recognizable using only five EEG channels. Several aspects of the experimental paradigm and the signal processing were adjusted for optimal results. members, foot, leg.

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eletrencefalografia neurofisiologia neurophisyology electroencephalography ers/erd ers/erd

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