Slow Potential Changes in the Brain

This collection of papers reports on new developments in interdisciplinary research involving the slow electrical activity that can be observed and measured in the brain, the field potentials such as the EEG, slow potentials, DC-shifts and DC-levels.

There has been a resurgence of interest in slow potential changes and their relationship to behaviour, including mental functions in humans, an area of study for many years passed over in favour of other aspects of brain electrical activity and techniques. It has been brought about by new computer methods of analysis and the development of the new biomagnetic measurement technique of magnetoencephalography.

Neurophysiologists, neurologists, psychophysiologists and molecular neurobiologists discuss the "generator" problem and the interpretation of field potentials in this comprehensive overview of an important "new" field that holds great promise for understanding normal functions of the brain and also for diagnosing nervous system diseases and trauma.