Human Neocortical Neurosolver (HNN), a new software tool for interpreting the cellular and network origin of human MEG/EEG data.
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SUBMITTER: Neymotin SA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7018509 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan
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Human Neocortical Neurosolver (HNN), a new software tool for interpreting the cellular and network origin of human MEG/EEG data.
Neymotin Samuel A SA Daniels Dylan S DS Caldwell Blake B McDougal Robert A RA Carnevale Nicholas T NT Jas Mainak M Moore Christopher I CI Hines Michael L ML Hämäläinen Matti M Jones Stephanie R SR
eLife 20200122
Magneto- and electro-encephalography (MEG/EEG) non-invasively record human brain activity with millisecond resolution providing reliable markers of healthy and disease states. Relating these macroscopic signals to underlying cellular- and circuit-level generators is a limitation that constrains using MEG/EEG to reveal novel principles of information processing or to translate findings into new therapies for neuropathology. To address this problem, we built Human Neocortical Neurosolver (HNN, htt ...[more]
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