RELAX vs RELAX JR for our population:

-tough bc our population are essentially at two diff stages of development (literature shows at age 17 can alr resemble adult profiles)

-RELAX Jr is better suited to handle muscle artifacts (tics)

-could customize thresholds (artifact threshold?) for older participants to avoid overcleaning

-OR run pipelilne comparison on subset

-consider annotating known tic segments manually

-pipelines for tourettes may not be the best approach ..

-ICA relys on detection of common/correlated artifacts

-if neural precursor is mistaken for artifact it will be removed

-ERRORS in RELAX-JR ?? see main page for screenshot of error

Creating pipeline from scratch - implementing steps included in RELAX / RELAX JR when appropriate

1. add channel info to EEG structure - DONE
2. high and low pass filter the data - liberal params here - DONE
3. re-reference to CpZ - gets the signal in right voltage values - DONE
4. ICA to remove blinks - in process
   1. flexibility here for each subpop (younger vs older tourettes subjs and healthy controls) - will reject different numbers of channels based on overall movement… children show higher blink artifacts so might reject more channels in these subjs)
5. add in timestamps to the data (this can be done before or after ICA, ICA doesn’t care about the timestamps and only takes in EEG.data) - in process
6. epoch the data around Tics using the timestamps - to do
7. visualize individual tic segments for ideas about further preprocessing steps - to do