Title :
Assessment of hippocampal and autonomic neural activity by point process models
Author :
Barbieri, Riccardo ; Chen, Zhe ; Brown, Emery N.
Author_Institution :
Neuroscience Statistics Research Laboratory, Dept of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Abstract :
The development of statistical models that accurately describe the stochastic structure of neural oscillations is a fast growing area in quantitative research. In developing a novel statistical paradigm based on Bayes´ theorem and the theory of point processes, we focused our recent research on two applications. The first studies how hippocampal neural activity represents and transmits information, whereas the second is aimed at characterizing activity of the central autonomic network as involved in cardiovascular control.
Keywords :
Bayesian methods; Brain modeling; Cardiology; Centralized control; Heart rate; Heart rate variability; Maximum likelihood decoding; Neurons; Stochastic processes; USA Councils; Action Potentials; Adaptation, Physiological; Algorithms; Animals; Autonomic Nervous System; Bayes Theorem; Brain; Heart Rate; Hippocampus; Humans; Models, Neurological; Neuronal Plasticity; Statistics, Nonparametric;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2008. EMBS 2008. 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Vancouver, BC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1814-5
Electronic_ISBN :
1557-170X
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2008.4650006