Projects

In recent years there has been considerable interest in recording neurophysiological information from humans in natural environments. With the emergence of high quality mobile EEG equipment, new EEG applications may be within reach. However, to date, the number of studies using true mobile EEG recordings in natural scenarios is surprisingly limited, which questions the feasibility of recording reliable EEG in out-of-the-lab scenarios. ...

Electroencephalography or EEG can be used in a wide range of applications like diagnosing disorders like epilepsy, Brain Computer Interfaces or in neural prostheses. These mentioned applications would benefit from a continuous 24/7 EEG monitoring, but this is impractical with traditional bulky EEG headsets. On the other hand, the recent emergence of novel miniature and wearable EEG devices could make it possible, yet these devices come with ...

This PhD project aims to define specific EEG maturational features in premature infants and to develop an objective scoring system for predicting neurodevelopmental outcome at 2 years of corrected age. Differentiation with transient EEG changes willl give insight in causal factors and timing of brain injury in premature en term infants, which allows to improve neuroprotective measures. Development and implementation of algorithms may ...

A neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is a specialized unit for intensive care of the critically ill or premature newborn babies. This unit is equipped with incubators and different bedside systems to monitor and nurse the infants for several days or weeks. In the last decade, the electroencephalogram (EEG) has been considered as an important monitoring system in the NICUs. Different types of rhythms and patterns which manifest in the EEG ...

A lot of effort has already been put into the development of smaller, wearable and more user-friendly devices to monitor seizures in patients with epilepsy. The investigators hypothesize that a wearable EEG ( in combination with additional non-EEG biosignals (motion, ECG, EMG, respiration, temperature,...) derived from Byteflies Sensor Dot and new medical patches (Plug 'n Patch system), will be able to objectively detect epileptic seizures ...

The goal of the PhD project is to develop software for automated EEG scoring, cerebral autoregulation (CAR) assessment and quantification of linked dynamics between EEG activity and cerebral oxygenation (NIRS), for use in computer-aided prediction of neurological outcome in neonates in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). More specifically, the PhD student will develop advanced algorithms (graphs using appropriate kernels, multiscale ...

Current evidence suggests that short training sessions can improve cognitive performance of elder individuals and postpone age-related cognitive decline development. But the expected outcome could be compromised when these sessions increase the subject's cognitive workload (CW) -the interaction between mental demands of the task and the subject's ability to perform them. Several attempts have been made to relate CW to task difficulty, leaving ...

Neural oscillations have been shown to be functionally relevant for human behaviour. In this way, brain rhythms oscillating at different frequencies have been associated to different cognitive functions. Consequently, the interplay between brain rhythms in different frequency ranges (i.e. cross-frequency coupling) is thought to be essential for cognition to emerge. This thesis focuses on cross-frequency dynamics between EEG alpha (8-14 Hz) ...