Centre for Neuroscience, Flinders University

Group website: http://www.flinders.edu.au/neuroscience/lab_brainsignals.html

• Non-linear analysis of EEG: Utilising principles of chaos-theory to provide a distinct and robust method of analysing EEG, and investigating the possibility that these analyses may reveal abnormalities in EEG activity preceding epileptic convulsions.
• Human EEG analysis: Determining whether patients with a variety of neurological disorders exhibit disturbances of gamma EEG rhythms.
• Physiology of Meditation: Physiological correlates of meditation, including the extent to which awareness of external stimuli is altered as a result of the meditative states, and the extent to which meditative states are associated with altered ability to maintain concentration on mental tasks.
• Cell swelling participating in epileptogenesis: Investigating the possibility that accelerated increases in cell size is a critical step related to the immediate causation of seizure.
• Ions participating in epileptogenesis: Recordings with ion-sensitive microelectrodes showed that episodes of spreading depression of Leao frequently follow epileptic discharges in all three epilepsy models, demonstrating a pathophysiological association between epilepsy and spreading depression.

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