Novel Stimulation Protocols based on Phase Resetting Principles: Applications to Magnetoencephalography and Deep Brain Stimulation

Recently, stimulation techniques have been developed which enable one to reliably manipulate synchronization processes between and within oscillatory neuronal populations by means of a coordinated reset of neuronal sub-populations [1, 2]. In addition, a stochastic phase resetting analysis has been developed which makes it possible to detect the corresponding complex responses and transient synchronization and desynchronization processes in experimental data [3]. The talk presents two applications: (i) Visual stimulation in humans: In a full-field pattern reversal task we studied transient synchronization and des…