ReviewNature neuroscience2017
Magnetoencephalography for brain electrophysiology and imaging.
Review in Nature neuroscience, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 426 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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426 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Tracking electrophysiological signatures of Alzheimer's disease: a systematic review of multimodal studies.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025Pooled it
- Using Magnetoencephalography to Advance the Science of Parkinson Disease: A Systematic Review.Brain and behavior · 2025Pooled it
- Magnetoencephalography studies in migraine and headache disorders: A systematic review.Headache · 2025Pooled it
- Resting-state gamma power in schizophrenia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Resting State Electrophysiological Profiles and Their Relationship with Cognitive Performance in Cognitively Unimpaired Older Adults: A Systematic Review.Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2024Pooled it
- Neurophysiological brain function predicts response to cognitive rehabilitation and mindfulness in multiple sclerosis: a randomized trial.Journal of neurology · 2024Trial
- LSD reconfigures cortical dynamics through faster brain rhythms and increased fractal dimension.Communications biology · 2026Article
- Noninvasive decoding of typed sentences from human brain activity.Nature neuroscience · 2026Article
- From seeing to showing: towards a neuroscience of emotion production.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2026Review
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- In vivo magnetic recording of neuronal action potentials using a differential TMR magnetrode.Microsystems & nanoengineering · 2026Article
- Auditory gamma-band synchronization and attentional performance in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy.Epilepsia open · 2026Article
- Determining hemispheric language dominance from MEG beta-power modulations: Concordance with fMRI.NeuroImage · 2026Article
- Magnetoencephalographic source imaging improves localization of the epileptogenic zone in multimodal imaging evaluation.Epilepsia · 2026Article
- Opportunities for Quantum Sensing in Epilepsy Diagnostics.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Frequency-Specific Neural Dynamics and Decoding of Hierarchical Auditory Sequences Revealed by Magnetoencephalography.Neuroscience bulletin · 2026Article
- Prediction of mild cognitive impairment progression using time-sensitive multimodal biomarkers.Science advances · 2026Article
- Altered Evening Aperiodic Activity and Microstate Dynamics in Insomnia Disorder: An OPM MEG Study.CNS neuroscience & therapeutics · 2026Article
- Machine Learning Integrating SERF-MEG and VEP for Diagnosis and Differential Diagnosis of Optic Neuropathies.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- SERF-MEG as a Functional Biomarker of Optic Nerve Injury: Agreement and Correlation with Visual Evoked Potentials.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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Abstract
We review the aspects that uniquely characterize magnetoencephalography (MEG) among the techniques available to explore and resolve brain function and dysfunction. While emphasizing its specific strengths in terms of millisecond source imaging, we also identify and discuss current practical challenges, in particular in signal extraction and interpretation. We also take issue with some perceived disadvantages of MEG, including the misconception that the technique is redundant with electroencephalography. Overall, MEG contributes uniquely to our deeper comprehension of both regional and large-scale brain dynamics: from the functions of neural oscillations and the nature of event-related brain activation, to the mechanisms of functional connectivity between regions and the emergence of modes of network communication in brain systems. We expect MEG to play an increasing and pivotal role in the elucidation of these grand mechanistic principles of cognitive, systems and clinical neuroscience.
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