DYNAMAP

(Dynamical Brain Mapping and Pathophysiology of Focal Human Epilepsies)

The main research themes of the DynaMaP team are i) the methodology of brain mapping for epilepsy and cognition (based on EEG, magnetoencephalography and intracerebral EEG) ii) the pathophysiology of human epilepsy. A key feature of the team is to be composed of people with diverse backgrounds (engineers, clinicians, neuroscientists) and to be located within the Timone hospital, which ensures tight collaboration between research and clinics.  In the past years, we notably obtained results on the characterization of epileptic networks and on the simultaneous recording of MEG an intracerebral EEG.

We are part of large-scale projects (RHU Epinov, ERC Galvani). Moreover, the Dynamap team runs the magnetoencephalography platform, which has the IBISA and “AMU platform” labels, is member of France Life Imaging network, and of several AMU Institutes (NeuroMarseille, Laënnec, Marseille Imaging).

A particular effort is made towards translation of our work to clinicians and researchers through the multi-platform Anywave software and its associated plugins (epileptogenicity Index, Delphos, Gardel…), which architecture specifically aims at allowing fast implementation of algorithms to the end users.

We obtained recently an A*midex industrial chair, “NewMeg Marseille”, in collaboration with the Meg4Health company.