Book Details

Title:  Mathematical Analysis of the Electrical Activity of the Brain

Author:  M.N. Livanov and V.S. Rusinov, (Editors in Chief) / Translated and Edited by John S. Barlow, M.D.

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Publisher: Harvard University Press

Year: 1968

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Cover:  Hardcover with Dust Jacket

Pages: 105

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Outside:

Dust jacket is of good read condition, particularly for the vintage. It is entire/intact, with one tear of concern between the spine and the front, which has been repaired with archiving tape to prevent further injury. There is some shelf wear, with rubbing to corners, edges and ends of spine, some small creases and a couple of smaller tears. Superficial scuffing. There is an old dewey decimel reference label on the spine.

The hard cover beneath is very well preserved with little wear at all. Some minor crushing to ends of spine and bumping to corners. The embossing on the spine remains intact.

The binding is firm and intact.

Inside:

Pages are clean, whole and intact. Overall pages are in good condition.

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  Book Content: 

 Blurb -

 "Electroencephalography - the recording of the electrical activity of the brain - is, at the present time, one of the most widely used methods for investigating the higher levels of the central nervous system in man and animals. In the last few years, there has been a significant increase in the amount of work carried out jointly by the neurophysiologists, mathematicians and physicists, in which a variety of computing devices have been used to analyse the electroencephalogram (EEG), during the study of both normal and pathological conditions in the brain.

Such mathematical analysis of the electro-encephalographic data not only provides valuable information about the functional state of the brain, but also offers the possibility of facilitating the diagnosis of brain disease. At the same time, the exploration of new problems can be advanced. Since electronic computing techniques allow material to be processed statistically, an objective, quantitative evaluation of the results can be established. However, no single method currently known for EEG analysis can sufficiently encompass the most complex processes of cerebral activity.

Which of these methods, then, can best be employed in the examination of a particular characteristic of the electroencephalogram? The problem of developing these various methods is of the greatest importance. A symposium on the subject was held during the Tenth Congress of the All-Union Physiological Society in the USSR in 1964. This monograph includes the reports of the participants and some contributions to the discussion. In his Forward to the translation, Professor Rosenblith writes: "By illustrating both the power and the limitations of our analytical tools, the Erivan conference has thus contributed to a more realistic appraisal of the state of the field."

Professor Livanov and Professor Rusinov are Chiefs, respectively, of the Laboratory of Electrophysiology of Conditioned Reflexes and of the Laboratory of General Physiology of the Central Nervous System at the Institute of Higher Nervous Activity of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in Moscow. Dr. Barlow, who is Neurophysiologist on the Neurology Service of the Massachusetts General Hospital, Research Associate in Neurology at Harvard Medical School, and Research Affiliate in Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has written extensively on computer analysis in electroencephalography. Walter A. Rosenblith is Professor of Communications Biophysics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology."