Section: Application Domains

Immobility

A research direction will be to leverage the relationship between the motor activity and anesthesia. Indeed, even if no movement is visually perceptible, a study by electroencephalographic recordings of brain activity in motor areas, quantifying the characteristics of amplitude and phase synchronization observed in the alpha and beta frequency bands, may reveal an intention movement. This feature is important because it demonstrates that the patient is aware. Thus, we will develop an experimental protocol in collaboration with an anesthesiologist of the regional hospital on stimulating the median nerve at forearm level to track the evolution of the shape of the beta rebound in the motor cortex for various doses of the anesthetic agent.