objective: the aim of this study was to compare the qeeg of adolescents affected by bipolar ii disorder with age and gender matched healthy controls, and to extract the characteristics of the alpha frequency band to better understand this disorder. methods: twenty one adolescents affected by acute episodes of bipolar ii disorder (bmd ii), both hypomanic and depressive episodes, were selected vi...

Introduction: Transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) is emerging as an interventional tool to modulate different functions of the brain, potentially by interacting with intrinsic ongoing neuronal oscillations. Functionally different intrinsic alpha oscillations are found throughout the cortex. Yet it remains unclear whether tACS is capable of specifically modulating the somatosenso...

Studies exploring the role of neural oscillations in cognition have revealed sustained increases in alpha-band (~8-14 Hz) power during the delay period of delayed-recognition short-term memory tasks. These increases have been proposed to reflect the inhibition, for example, of cortical areas representing task-irrelevant information, or of potentially interfering representations from previous tr...

During study trials of a recognition memory task, alpha (∼10 Hz) oscillations decrease, and concurrently, theta (4-8 Hz) oscillations increase when later memory is successful versus unsuccessful (subsequent memory effect). Likewise, at test, reduced alpha and increased theta activity are associated with successful memory (retrieval success effect). Here we take an individual-differences approac...

Although the cognitive and clinical correlates of spontaneous human alpha oscillations as recorded with electroencephalography (EEG) or magnetoencephalography (MEG) are well documented, the dynamics underlying these oscillations is still a matter of debate. This study proposes a data-driven method to reveal the dynamics of these oscillations. It demonstrates that spontaneous human alpha oscilla...

objective: electrophysiological studies have identified abnormal oscillatory activities in the cerebral cortex in schizophrenia and mood disorders. biological and pathophysiological evidence suggests specific deficits in serotonin (5-ht) receptor function in schizoaffective disorder (sa), a clinical syndrome with characteristics of both schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. this study investigate...

Visual cortical alpha oscillations are involved in attentional gating of incoming visual information. It has been shown that spatial and feature-based attentional selection result in increased alpha oscillations over the cortical regions representing sensory input originating from the unattended visual field and task-irrelevant visual features, respectively. However, whether attentional gating ...

So far, alpha (10 Hz) oscillations in the EEG have mostly been regarded as 'idling rhythms'. Recent studies, however, imply that event-related alpha oscillations may have several functional correlates, among them sensory processes. In particular, stimulus-dependent 10 Hz oscillations in the EEG and at the cellular level (evoked by auditory and visual stimuli) share common features. Taking into ...