Wavelet Ridges in EEG Diagnostic Features Extraction: Epilepsy Long-Time Monitoring and Rehabilitation after Traumatic Brain Injury.

Interchannel EEG synchronization, as well as its violation, is an important diagnostic sign of a number of diseases. In particular, during an epileptic seizure, such synchronization occurs starting from some pairs of channels up to many pairs in a generalized seizure. Additionally, for example, after traumatic brain injury, the destruction of interneuronal connections occurs, which leads to a violation of interchannel synchronization when performing motor or cognitive tests.

[Dual-tasks is an indicator of cognitive deficit specificity in patients after traumatic brain injury].

Aim: To investigate the brain activity impairment in patients after traumatic brain injury (TBI) during dual-tasks in comparison with the normal ranges.

Material And Methods: Electroencephalographic (EEG), stabilographic and clinical study was performed in 9 patients (mean age 25±1.2 years) for up to 3 months after a mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) in comparison with 18 healthy subjects (mean age 26.

[Electroencephalograpic Parameters of Healthy Persons with Different Successfulness of Dual-Task Performance (Postural Control and Calculation)].

Complex electroencephalographic (EEG), stabilographic and psychological study was executed during the number dual tasks performance--postural control and calculation in 25 healthy volunteers (age 25 ± 0.7). Successful performances of dual tasks required a high usage of cognitive resources, such as memory and attention as well as good motor command and low level of anxiety.

[Sex Differences in Visual Task Switching (an fMRI Study)].

Executive functions are an important ability of human brain to program, regulate and control various cognitive processes; one of these processes is the voluntary task switching. However, the sex differences in this process are poorly studied. In our study, these differences were investigated in 70 healthy subjects (36 men and 34 women) aged 21-48 years by means of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and neuropsychological examination.

[FMRI study of visual task switching in healthy individuals].

The present study was aimed, first, at developing a visual switching task for fMRI research and, second, at identification of the brain regions involved in task switching. Forty eight healthy individuals (from 21 to 56 years of age) participated in the study. The designed visual switching task was relatively short, it consisted of an easy stimulus set and involved a simple condition, in which participants had to shift their attention between two task conditions (classifying figures according to their form or number).