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Isabelle Merlet

Isabelle Merlet

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Neuroscience

D-Index
34
Citations
4376
World Ranking
9349
National Ranking
455

Overview

Isabelle Merlet is affiliated with the University of Rennes in France, specializing in the field of neuroscience with a focus on cognitive neuroscience. Their research spans multiple subfields including neurology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, clinical psychology, and experimental and cognitive psychology. The primary scientific topics covered in their work include EEG and brain-computer interfaces, neural dynamics and brain function, functional brain connectivity studies, neuroscience and music perception, neurological disorders and treatments, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, and transcranial magnetic stimulation studies.

The scientific output of Isabelle Merlet includes publications in several peer-reviewed journals, with a notable presence in Clinical Neurophysiology, which features four of their papers. Other journals where their work has appeared are PLoS Biology, Journal of Computational Neuroscience, Journal of Neural Engineering, and Revue Neurologique.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Isabelle Merlet are:

  • "Selective enhancement of low-gamma activity by tACS improves phonemic processing and reading accuracy in dyslexia" (2020, PLoS Biology)
  • "Multiscale neuro-inspired models for interpretation of EEG signals in patients with epilepsy" (2024, Clinical Neurophysiology)
  • "Modelling acute and lasting effects of tDCS on epileptic activity" (2020, Journal of Computational Neuroscience)
  • "Signal processing and computational modeling for interpretation of SEEG-recorded interictal epileptiform discharges in epileptogenic and non-epileptogenic zones" (2022, Journal of Neural Engineering)
  • "EEG changes induced by meditative practices: State and trait effects in healthy subjects and in patients with epilepsy" (2024, Revue Neurologique)

Frequently collaborated coauthors include Fabrice Wendling (8 collaborations), Pascal Benquet (7 collaborations), Elif Köksal Ersöz (6 collaborations), Fabrice Bartolomei (5 collaborations), and Maxime Yochum (4 collaborations).

The research conducted by Isabelle Merlet often addresses the analysis and interpretation of EEG data, exploring neural mechanisms underlying cognitive and neurological processes. Their work also involves computational modeling applied to epilepsy and brain stimulation techniques such as transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) and transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS).

Best Publications

  • Activation of a distributed somatosensory cortical network in the human brain. A dipole modelling study of magnetic fields evoked by median nerve stimulation. Part I: Location and activation timing of SEF sources.

    F Mauguière;I Merlet;N Forss;S Vanni

  • EEG Source Connectivity Analysis: From Dense Array Recordings to Brain Networks

    Mahmoud Hassan;Olivier Dufor;Isabelle Merlet;Claude Berrou

  • Removal of muscle artifact from EEG data: comparison between stochastic (ICA and CCA) and deterministic (EMD and wavelet-based) approaches

    Doha Safieddine;Doha Safieddine;Amar Kachenoura;Amar Kachenoura;Laurent Albera;Laurent Albera;Gwénaël Birot;Gwénaël Birot

  • Transcranial Current Brain Stimulation (tCS): Models and Technologies

    Giulio Ruffini;Fabrice Wendling;Isabelle Merlet;Behnam Molaee-Ardekani

  • 5-HT1A receptor binding and intracerebral activity in temporal lobe epilepsy: an [18F]MPPF-PET study.

    Isabelle Merlet;Karine Ostrowsky;Nicolas Costes;Philippe Ryvlin

  • Activation of a distributed somatosensory cortical network in the human brain: a dipole modelling study of magnetic fields evoked by median nerve stimulation. Part II: effects of stimulus rate, attention and stimulus detection

    F Mauguière;I Merlet;N Forss;S Vanni

  • Reliability of dipole models of epileptic spikes

    I Merlet;J Gotman

  • ICA-based EEG denoising: a comparative analysis of fifteen methods

    Laurent Albera;Amar Kachenoura;Pierre Comon;Ahmad Karfoul

  • A 18F-MPPF PET Normative Database of 5-HT1A Receptor Binding in Men and Women Over Aging

    Nicolas Costes;Isabelle Merlet;Karine Ostrowsky;Isabelle Faillenot

  • Effects of transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) on cortical activity: A computational modeling study

    Behnam Molaee-Ardekani;Javier Márquez-Ruiz;Isabelle Merlet;Isabelle Merlet;Rocio Leal-Campanario

  • EEG extended source localization: Tensor-based vs. conventional methods.

    Hanna Becker;Laurent Albera;Laurent Albera;Laurent Albera;Pierre Comon;Martin Haardt

  • Emotion Recognition Based on High-Resolution EEG Recordings and Reconstructed Brain Sources

    Hanna Becker;Julien Fleureau;Philippe Guillotel;Fabrice Wendling

  • Source propagation of interictal spikes in temporal lobe epilepsy. Correlations between spike dipole modelling and [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose PET data.

    I. Merlet;L. Garcia–Larrea;M. C. Grégoire;F. Lavenne

  • Activation of human mesial cortex during somatosensory target detection task

    Nina Forss;Isabelle Merlet;Simo Vanni;Matti Ha¨ma¨la¨inen

  • Brain-Source Imaging: From sparse to tensor models

    Hanna Becker;Laurent Albera;Pierre Comon;Remi Gribonval

  • The neuronal sources of EEG: Modeling of simultaneous scalp and intracerebral recordings in epilepsy

    Delphine Cosandier-Rimélé;Isabelle Merlet;Isabelle Merlet;Jean-Michel Badier;Jean-Michel Badier;Patrick Chauvel;Patrick Chauvel

  • Dipole modeling of scalp electroencephalogram epileptic discharges: correlation with intracerebral fields.

    I Merlet;J Gotman

  • From oscillatory transcranial current stimulation to scalp EEG changes: a biophysical and physiological modeling study.

    Isabelle Merlet;Isabelle Merlet;Gwénaël Birot;Gwénaël Birot;Ricardo Salvador;Behnam Molaee-Ardekani;Behnam Molaee-Ardekani

  • Identification of Interictal Epileptic Networks from Dense-EEG.

    Mahmoud Hassan;Isabelle Merlet;Isabelle Merlet;Ahmad Mheich;Ahmad Mheich;Ahmad Mheich;Aya Kabbara;Aya Kabbara;Aya Kabbara

  • PET imaging of brain 5-HT1A receptors in the preoperative evaluation of temporal lobe epilepsy.

    Adrien Didelot;Philippe Ryvlin;Amélie Lothe;Isabelle Merlet;Isabelle Merlet

  • Receptor Binding in Men and Women Over Aging

    Nicolas Costes;Isabelle Merlet;Karine Ostrowsky;Isabelle Faillenot

Frequent Co-Authors

Fabrice Wendling
Fabrice Wendling University of Rennes
François Mauguière
François Mauguière Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Philippe Ryvlin
Philippe Ryvlin University Hospital of Lausanne
Nicolas Costes
Nicolas Costes Grenoble Alpes University
Jean Gotman
Jean Gotman Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Riitta Hari
Riitta Hari Aalto University
Luis Garcia-Larrea
Luis Garcia-Larrea Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Nina Forss
Nina Forss University of Helsinki
Patrick Chauvel
Patrick Chauvel University of Pittsburgh
Martin Haardt
Martin Haardt Ilmenau University of Technology

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