Cite Brainstorm in your publications

Once you are done with your analyses performed with Brainstorm, proper citation would be greatly appreciated; thank you!

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Brainstorm

• To include in all your publications using Brainstorm:
  Data analysis was performed with Brainstorm (Tadel et al. 2011), which is documented and freely available for download online under the GNU general public license (http://neuroimage.usc.edu/brainstorm).

• Group analysis processing pipeline: Tadel et al. 2019
• Resting state processing pipeline: Niso et al. 2019

Forward models

• Spherical head model: Mosher et al. 1999
• Overlapping spheres: Huang et al. 1999
• OpenMEEG BEM: Gramfort et al. 2010 / Kybic et al. 2005

• Duneuro FEM: Medani et al. 2022

Inverse methods

• Tikhonov-regularized inimum norm: Baillet et al., 2001

  Electromagnetic brain mapping, IEEE SP MAG 2001.

• dSPM: Dale et al. 2000
• sLORETA: Pascual-Marqui 2002

Preprocessing

• SSP: Uusitalo et al. 1999
• ICA: Makeig et al. 1996
• Good practice: Gross et al. 2013

Time-frequency

• Morlet wavelets: Bertrand et al. 2000 / Pantazis et al. 2005b
• ERS/ERD: Pfurtscheller 1992

Statistical analysis

• Non-parametric tests: Pantazis et al., 2005a

• FieldTrip cluster-based tests: Maris and Oostenveld, 2007

• Decoding: Cichy et al. 2014

Default anatomy

• MNI/ICBM152: Fonov et al. 2009 | more information

• MNI/Colin27: more information

• BCI-DNI_BrainSuite_2016: more information

• USCBrain: more information

• Infant7w: Kabdebon et al. 2014

• Oreilly_1y: Li et al. 2015, Shi et al. 2011

MRI processing

• FreeSurfer: Whether you are using FreeSurfer for the T1 segmentation (Dale et al. 1999), the cortical atlases or the FSAverage subject default: please register on their website (registration page) and cite the appropriate references

• BrainSuite: Shattuck et al. 2002

• BrainVISA: Rivière et al. 2003
• MNI normalization (SPM): Ashburner and Friston, 2005
• MRI coregistration (SPM): Ashburner and Friston, 2005

Tutorial datasets

• Introduction (auditory CTF MEG): more information

• Group analysis (visual Elekta MEG): more information

• EEG/Epilepsy: contact the authors

• SEEG/Epilepsy: contact the authors

• CTF MEG phantom: more information

• Elekta MEG phantom: more information

• OMEGA: more information

• HCP-MEG: more information

References

The previous citations refer to the following publications. Further reading is available in the Publications section.

• Ashburner J, Friston KJ (2005)
  Unified segmentation
  NeuroImage 26, 839–851. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2005.02.018

• Baillet S, Mosher JC, Leahy RM (2001)
  Electromagnetic Brain Mapping (pdf)
  IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 18(6): 14-30, Nov 2001

• Bertrand O, Tallon-Baudry C (2000)
  Oscillatory gamma activity in humans: a possible role for object representation
  Int J Psychophysiol, 38(3):211-23

• Cichy RM, Pantazis D, Oliva A (2014)
  Resolving human object recognition in space and time
  Nature neuroscience, 17:455

• Dale AM, Liu AK, Fischl BR, Buckner RL, Belliveau JW, Lewine JD, Halgren E (2000)
  Dynamic statistical parametric mapping: combining fMRI and MEG for high-resolution imaging of cortical activity
  Neuron, Apr 2000, 26(1):55-67

• Dale AM, Fischl B, Sereno MI (1999)
  Cortical surface-based analysis (pdf)
  NeuroImage 9, 179–194. doi: 10.1006/nimg.1998.0395

• Fonov VS, Evans AC, McKinstry RC, Almli CR, Collins DL (2009)
  Unbiased nonlinear average age-appropriate brain templates from birth to adulthood
  NeuroImage 47(Suppl. 1):S102. doi: 10.1016/S1053-8119(09)70884-5

• Gross J, Baillet S, Barnes GR, Henson RN, Hillebrand A, Jensen O, et al (2013)
  Good practice for conducting and reporting MEG research
  NeuroImage 65, 349–363

• Gramfort A, Papadopoulo T, Olivi E, Clerc M (2010)
  OpenMEEG: opensource software for quasistatic bioelectromagnetics
  BioMedical Engineering OnLine 45:9, 2010

• Huang MX, Mosher JC, Leahy RM (1999)
  A sensor-weighted overlapping-sphere head model and exhaustive head model comparison for MEG (pdf)
  Phys Med Biol, 44:423-440

• Kabdebon C, Leroy F, Simmonet H, Perrot M, Dubois J, Dehaene-Lambertz G
  Anatomical correlations of the international 10–20 sensor placement system in infants
  NeuroImage, 1 Oct 2014, 99:342-356

• Kybic J, Clerc M, Abboud T, Faugeras O, Keriven R, Papadopoulo T (2005)
  A common formalism for the integral formulations of the forward EEG problem (pdf)
  IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 24:12-28, 2005

• Leahy RM, Mosher JC, Spencer ME, Huang MX, Lewine JD (1998)
  A study of dipole localization accuracy for MEG and EEG using a human skull phantom (pdf)
  Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, 107(2):159-73, 1998

• Makeig S, Bell AJ, Jung TP, Sejnowski TJ (1996)
  Independent component analysis of electroencephalographic data
  in Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. Vol. 8, eds D. S. Touretzky, M. C. Mozer, and M. E. Hasselmo (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press), 145–151.

• Maris E, Oostendveld R
  Nonparametric statistical testing of EEG- and MEG-data
  J Neurosci Methods (2007), 164(1):177-90.

• Mosher, Leahy RM, Lewis PS (1999)
  EEG and MEG: Forward solutions for inverse methods (pdf)
  IEEE Trans Biomedical Eng, 46(3):245-259, Mar 1999

• Niso G, Tadel F, Bock E, Cousineau M, Santos A, Baillet S (2019)
  Brainstorm Pipeline Analysis of Resting-State Data from the Open MEG Archive
  Frontiers in Neuroscience, Mar 2019

• Pantazis D, Nichols TE, Baillet S, Leahy RM (2005a)
  A Comparison of Random Field Theory and Permutation Methods for the Statistical Analysis of MEG data (pdf)
  Neuroimage, 25(2):383-394, 2005

• Pascual-Marqui RD (2002)
  Standardized low-resolution brain electromagnetic tomography (sLORETA): technical details
  Methods Find Exp Clin Pharmacol 2002, 24 Suppl D:5-12

• Pfurtscheller G (1992)
  Event-related synchronization (ERS): an electrophysiological correlate of cortical areas at rest
  Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol, 83(1):62-9

• Rivière D, Régis J, Cointepas Y, Papadopoulos-Orfanos D, Cachia A, Mangin JF (2003)
  A freely available anatomist/brainVISA package for structural morphometry of the cortical sulci
  in Proceedings of the 9th HBM, Neuroimage, Vol. 19

• Shattuck D W, Leahy RM (2002)
  Brainsuite: an automated cortical surface identification tool
  Med. Image Anal. 6, 129–142. doi: 10.1016/S1361-8415(02)00054-3

• Tadel F, Baillet S, Mosher JC, Pantazis D, Leahy RM (2011)
  Brainstorm: A User-Friendly Application for MEG/EEG Analysis
  Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience, vol. 2011, Article ID 879716, 13 pages, 2011. doi:10.1155/2011/879716

• Tadel F, Bock E, Niso G, Mosher JC, Cousineau M, Pantazis D, Leahy RM, Baillet S (2019)
  MEG/EEG Group Analysis With Brainstorm
  Frontiers in Neuroscience, Feb 2019

• Uusitalo MA, Ilmoniemi RJ (1997)
  Signal-space projection method for separating MEG or EEG into components
  Med. Biol. Eng. Comput. 35, 135–140