Columbia/NKI Brain Oscillations Journal Club

organized by Charlie Schroeder
administered by Joe Isler

The Brain Oscillations Journal Club consists of a core group of scientists in Charles Schroeder's laboratory and others at the Nathan Kline Institute and researchers in Columbia's Departments of Pediatrics, Neurology and Psychiatry. We've been meeting weekly since early 2005 to discuss papers relevant to our interests in the mechanisms and functional significance of neuronal membrane potential oscillations, across scales from single cell studies to scalp EEG and MEG.

We meet Wednesdays at 4PM in the 7th floor conference room of the Neurological Institute. Below is a partial roster of members and a list of papers we've discussed with links to their entries in PubMed. To be added to the mailing list, send an email to jri2101@columbia.edu.

Some papers from our group can be found here.


Partial list of members
Nathan Kline Institute
Charlie Schroeder
Pejman Sehatpour
Simon Kelly
Manuel Gomez-Ramirez

Columbia Pediatrics
Joe Isler
Phil Grieve
Buddy Stark

Columbia Psychiatry
Sarah H. Lisanby, Columbia Brain Stimulation Division
Angel Peterchev

Columbia Neurology
Ron Emerson
Cathy Schevon
Papers
  • 17 September 2008
    High-frequency gamma activity (80-150Hz) is increased in human cortex during selective attention Ray S et al., 2008.

  • 24 September 2008
    Good Vibrations: Cross-frequency Coupling in the Human Nucleus Accumbens during Reward Processing Cohen MX et al., 2008.

  • 20 August 2008
    Effect of stimulus intensity on the spike-local field potential relationship in the secondary somatosensory cortex Ray S et al., 2008.

  • 13 August 2008
    Cross-frequency phase coupling of brain rhythms during the orienting response Isler JR et al., 2008.

  • 23 July 2008
    Very slow EEG fluctuations predict the dynamics of stimulus detection and oscillation amplitudes in humans. Monto S et al., 2008.

  • 16 July 2008
    Mapping the Structural Core of Human Cerebral Cortex Hagmann P et al., 2008.

  • 9 July 2008
    Transient induced gamma-band response in EEG as a manifestation of miniature saccades Yuval-Greenberg S et al., 2008.

  • 2 July 2008
    Reduced Evoked Gamma Oscillations in the Frontal Cortex in Schizophrenia Patients: A TMS/EEG Study Ferrarelli F et al., 2008.

  • 25 June 2008
    Reference-free quantification of EEG spectra: combining current source density (CSD) and frequency principal components analysis (fPCA) Tenke CE and Kayser J, 2005.

  • 11 June 2008
    Phase patterns of neuronal responses reliably discriminate speech in human auditory cortex Luo H and Poeppel D, 2007.

  • 4 June 2008
    Interactions between membrane conductances underlying thalamocortical slow-wave oscillations Destexhe A and Sejnowski TJ, 2003.

  • 14 May 2008
    Reduced spike-timing reliability correlates with the emergence of fast ripples in the rat epileptic hippocampus Foffani G et al., 2007.

  • 7 May 2008
    Dynamic causal modelling of induced responses Chen CC et al., 2008. (note: not in PubMed yet, so link is to Science Direct.)

  • 30 April 2008
    Analysis of LFP phase predicts sensory response of barrel cortex Haslinger R et al., 2006.

  • 23 April 2008
    Topographic localization of electrocortical activation in newborn and two- to four-month-old infants in response to head-up tilting Grieve PG et al., 2005.

    Electrocortical functional connectivity in infancy: response to body tilt Grieve PG et al., 2007.

  • 16 April 2008
    Interictal high-frequency oscillations (100-500 Hz) in the intracerebral EEG of epileptic patients Urrestarazu E et al., 2007.

    Quantitative analysis of high-frequency oscillations (80-500 Hz) recorded in human epileptic hippocampus and entorhinal cortex Staba RJ et al., 2002.

  • 12 March 2008
    Large-scale gamma-band phase synchronization and selective attention Doesburg SM et al., 2007.


    • Some papers prior to March 2008
    The many faces of the gamma band response to complex visual stimuli Lachaux JP et al., 2005.

    Is perception discrete or continuous? VanRullen R and Koch C, 2004.

    A mechanism for cognitive dynamics: neuronal communication through neuronal coherence Fries P, 2005.

    New vistas for alpha-frequency band oscillations Palva S and Palva JM, 2007.