Stephen Meisenhelter, Markus E Testorf, Mark A Gorenstein, Nicholas R Hasulak, Thomas K Tcheng, Joshua P Aronson, Barbara C Jobst
BACKGROUND: Electrocorticography studies are typically conducted in patients undergoing video EEG monitoring, but these studies are subject to confounds such as the effects of pain, recent anesthesia, analgesics, drug changes, antibiotics, and implant effects. NEW METHOD: Techniques were developed to obtain electrocorticographic (ECoG) data from freely moving subjects performing navigational tasks using the RNS® System (NeuroPace, Inc., Mountain View, CA), a brain-responsive neurostimulation medical device used to treat focal onset epilepsy, and to align data from the RNS System with cognitive task events with high precision...
January 1, 2019: Journal of Neuroscience Methods