Study of weak periodic signals in the EEG signals and their relationship with postsynaptic potentials

Abstract

In this paper, weak periodic signals detected in the EEG signals were analyzed for each region of the brain, and its relationships with postsynaptic potentials were investigated. For this, EEG signals were collected from 16 different channels according to the international standard channel 10/20 system in the scalp of two patients, one epileptic and one non-epileptic. In our recent work, we have detected weak periodic signals in the EEG signals using a Duffing oscillator system. In this paper, we have used a compact method by combining the Duffing oscillator system with scale index, which is based on a wavelet analysis in order to make the determination of the weak periodic signals more straightforward in practice. A number of weak periodic signals were detected in the range of frequencies 4.7-16 Hz in all channels, and however, these were less observed in epileptic EEG signals than non-epileptic. This methodology illustrates that weak periodic signals can be used to distinguish epileptic EEG signals from non-epileptic EEG signals. We have revealed some findings that the weak periodic signals are the postsynaptic potentials of the brain. Therefore, we can measure some frequencies values of the postsynaptic potentials within the EEG signals with this methodology.