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Marseille MEG Plateform

CONTACT
Coordinates 43.29236346203756, 5.359133426541125
Contact name Christian Bénar
CIVIS Label No
Acronym MEG-PTA
Scientific domain

LS4_3 - Physiology of ageing - Physiology in Health, Disease and Ageing


 

LS5_3 - Neural development and related disorders - Neuroscience and Disorders of the Nervous System


Keywords

MagnetoEncephaloGraphy


 

Electrophysiology


 

Signal Processing


 

Inverse problems


 

brain mapping


 

Cognition


 

Epilepsy


 

Clinical Research


Partner institution

Aix-Marseille Université


Website No
Technical staff available No
Remote access details MEG is open to scientific communities from both the academic and provate sectors upon a project application. Applications must be submitted to the platform manager Christian Bénar (christian.benar@univ-amu.fr) or alternatively to the other manager Jean-Michel Badier (jean-michel.badier@univ-amu.fr), who will evaluate the feasibility of the project taking into account its technical aspects, adequacy to the questions asked, schedule, ethics (authorization of a CPP), etc. Pilot experiments are proposed only if the ethical aspects allow them. The project is either presented during an internal meeting of the local reseach team or during an extended management committee meeting in case the equipment availability for the applied time period is limited.
Remote access available No
Open to external users No
Equipment The services provided by MEG include the folowing: -MEG/EEG data acquisition, -expertise and advising in MEG/EEG signal processing, source localization, source separation, and connectivity, as well as for data implementation, -high expertise in certain clinical field, particularly in epilepsy.
Open access to updated information database No
Online booking system details Charte des Plateformes Technologiques Aix-Marseille (PTA): https://www.univ-amu.fr/system/files/2021-07/Charte%20PTF%20AMU%20M%C3%A0J21.docx.pdf
Online booking system available No
Description MEG equipment is dedicated to the acquisition of MEG and EEG data. These two modalities are the only existing ones to report brain activity with an adapted temporal resolution. Besides, MEG takes advantage of the fact that magnetic fields are little affected by the tissues constituting or surrounding the brain, which gives it unique properties for the identification and, description of the brain activity original sources. MEG first serves the Dynamap team of the 'Institut de Neuroscience des Systèmes' and which research mainly focuses on signal processing and the use of MEG signals in cognition and epilepsy. The entire facility was born as part of a consotrium between the Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Marseille (AP-HM) near the Faculty of Medicine of Aix-Marseille University and the Institute of Systems Neuroscience (INS) to which it belongs to. Precisely, the platform is located within the epileptology and cerebral rythmology department of AP-HM, which gives it unique access to clinical research, especially in epileptology.