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Buch VP, Brandon C, Ramayya AG, Lucas TH, Richardson AG. Dichotomous frequency-dependent phase synchrony in the sensorimotor network characterizes simplistic movement. Sci Rep 2024; 14:11933. [PMID: 38789576 PMCID: PMC11126677 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-62848-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2023] [Accepted: 05/22/2024] [Indexed: 05/26/2024] Open
Abstract
It is hypothesized that disparate brain regions interact via synchronous activity to control behavior. The nature of these interconnected ensembles remains an area of active investigation, and particularly the role of high frequency synchronous activity in simplistic behavior is not well known. Using intracranial electroencephalography, we explored the spectral dynamics and network connectivity of sensorimotor cortical activity during a simple motor task in seven epilepsy patients. Confirming prior work, we see a "spectral tilt" (increased high-frequency (HF, 70-100 Hz) and decreased low-frequency (LF, 3-33 Hz) broadband oscillatory activity) in motor regions during movement compared to rest, as well as an increase in LF synchrony between these regions using time-resolved phase-locking. We then explored this phenomenon in high frequency and found a robust but opposite effect, where time-resolved HF broadband phase-locking significantly decreased during movement. This "connectivity tilt" (increased LF synchrony and decreased HF synchrony) displayed a graded anatomical dependency, with the most robust pattern occurring in primary sensorimotor cortical interactions and less robust pattern occurring in associative cortical interactions. Connectivity in theta (3-7 Hz) and high beta (23-27 Hz) range had the most prominent low frequency contribution during movement, with theta synchrony building gradually while high beta having the most prominent effect immediately following the cue. There was a relatively sharp, opposite transition point in both the spectral and connectivity tilt at approximately 35 Hz. These findings support the hypothesis that task-relevant high-frequency spectral activity is stochastic and that the decrease in high-frequency synchrony may facilitate enhanced low frequency phase coupling and interregional communication. Thus, the "connectivity tilt" may characterize behaviorally meaningful cortical interactions.
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- Vivek P Buch
- Department of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, 94304, USA.
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Departments of Neurosurgery and Biomedical Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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Qiao Z, Poppelaars ES, Li X. In the anticipation of threat: Neural regulatory activity indicated by delta-beta correlation and its relation to anxiety. Biol Psychol 2024; 187:108769. [PMID: 38447860 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2024.108769] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2023] [Revised: 11/16/2023] [Accepted: 03/01/2024] [Indexed: 03/08/2024]
Abstract
The anticipation of oncoming threats is emotionally challenging and related to anxiety. The current study aimed to investigate the neural regulatory processes during the anticipatory preparations in stressful situations in relation to trait anxiety, especially in an uncertainty-related stressful situation. To this end, we measured within-subjects delta-beta amplitude-amplitude correlation (AAC) and phase-amplitude coupling (PAC) with electroencephalography using a well-defined stress-inducing paradigm in 28 high-trait-anxiety (HTA) and 29 low-trait-anxiety (LTA) college students. Specifically, a threat probability task was conducted, where participants anticipated the future stimuli under the uncertain (i.e., an average of 50% electric shocks), certain (i.e., 100% electric shocks) and no threat conditions, as well as a resting state task. Results showed a generally larger delta-beta AAC in the LTA group relative to the HTA group across conditions, supporting the hypothesis that delta-beta AAC reflects the efficiency of stress regulation and trait anxiety could compromise this adaptive regulatory activity. Furthermore, a larger delta-beta PAC was found under the uncertain threat condition relative to the no threat condition, indicating the sensitivity of delta-beta PAC in reflecting state anxiety. These findings indicate that while delta-beta AAC is more related to trait anxiety and could distinguish between high and low trait anxiety irrespective of conditions, delta-beta PAC is more related to state anxiety and is sensitive enough to detect the uncertainty-related anxious state.
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- Zhiling Qiao
- Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China; Department of Neurosciences, Research Group Psychiatry, Center for Clinical Psychiatry, KU Leuven, Leuven 3000, Belgium
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- Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
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Ma S, Chen T, Jia W, Liu J, Ding S, Li P, Gan H, Zhang D, Shao S, Poo MM, Zhao M, Sun B, Jiang J. Enhanced Beta2-band Oscillations Denote Auditory Hallucination in Schizophrenia Patients and a Monkey Model of Psychosis. Neurosci Bull 2024; 40:325-338. [PMID: 37612582 PMCID: PMC10912066 DOI: 10.1007/s12264-023-01100-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2023] [Accepted: 05/10/2023] [Indexed: 08/25/2023] Open
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An electroencephalographic (EEG) signature of auditory hallucinations (AHs) is important for facilitating the diagnosis and treatment of AHs in schizophrenia. We recorded EEG from 25 schizophrenia patients with recurrent AHs. During the period of AHs, EEG recordings exhibited significantly elevated beta2-band power in the temporal region, as compared to those recorded in the absence of AHs or during stimulation with verbal sounds. We further generated methamphetamine-treated rhesus monkeys exhibiting psychosis-like behaviors, including repetitive sudden searching actions in the absence of external intrusion, suggesting the occurrence of AHs. Epidural EEG beta2-band power in the temporal region of these monkeys was enhanced immediately after methamphetamine treatment and positively correlated with the frequency of sudden searching actions. Thus, the enhancement of temporal beta2-band oscillations represents a signature for AHs in both patients and a monkey model of psychosis, and this monkey model can be used for developing closed-loop neuromodulation approaches for the treatment of refractory AHs in schizophrenia.
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- Shuo Ma
- Department of Neurosurgery, Ruijin Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200020, China
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- Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200030, China
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- Shanghai Center for Brain Science and Brain-inspired Technology, Lingang Laboratory, Shanghai, 201602, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Ruijin Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200020, China
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- University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, 201210, China
- Institute of Neuroscience, CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, CAS Key Laboratory of Primate Neurobiology, State Key Laboratory of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200031, China
- Shanghai Center for Brain Science and Brain-Inspired Intelligence Technology, Lingang Laboratory, Shanghai, 201210, China
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- Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200030, China
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- Fuyang Third People's Hospital, Fuyang Mental Health Center, Fuyang, 236052, China
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- Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200030, China
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- Shanghai Center for Brain Science and Brain-inspired Technology, Lingang Laboratory, Shanghai, 201602, China
- School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, 201210, China
- Institute of Neuroscience, CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, CAS Key Laboratory of Primate Neurobiology, State Key Laboratory of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200031, China
- Shanghai Center for Brain Science and Brain-Inspired Intelligence Technology, Lingang Laboratory, Shanghai, 201210, China
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- Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200030, China.
- Institute of Neuroscience, CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, CAS Key Laboratory of Primate Neurobiology, State Key Laboratory of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200031, China.
- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Psychotic Disorders, Shanghai, 200030, China.
- Institute of Psychological and Behavioral Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200030, China.
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Ruijin Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200020, China.
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- Shanghai Center for Brain Science and Brain-inspired Technology, Lingang Laboratory, Shanghai, 201602, China.
- Shanghai Quanlan Technology Co., Ltd, Shanghai, 201602, China.
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Agopyan-Miu AH, Merricks EM, Smith EH, McKhann GM, Sheth SA, Feldstein NA, Trevelyan AJ, Schevon CA. Cell-type specific and multiscale dynamics of human focal seizures in limbic structures. Brain 2023; 146:5209-5223. [PMID: 37536281 PMCID: PMC10689922 DOI: 10.1093/brain/awad262] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2023] [Revised: 06/30/2023] [Accepted: 07/19/2023] [Indexed: 08/05/2023] Open
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The relationship between clinically accessible epileptic biomarkers and neuronal activity underlying the transition to seizure is complex, potentially leading to imprecise delineation of epileptogenic brain areas. In particular, the pattern of interneuronal firing at seizure onset remains under debate, with some studies demonstrating increased firing and others suggesting reductions. Previous study of neocortical sites suggests that seizure recruitment occurs upon failure of inhibition, with intact feedforward inhibition in non-recruited territories. We investigated whether the same principle applies in limbic structures. We analysed simultaneous electrocorticography (ECoG) and neuronal recordings of 34 seizures in a cohort of 19 patients (10 male, 9 female) undergoing surgical evaluation for pharmacoresistant focal epilepsy. A clustering approach with five quantitative metrics computed from ECoG and multiunit data was used to distinguish three types of site-specific activity patterns during seizures, which at times co-existed within seizures. Overall, 156 single units were isolated, subclassified by cell-type and tracked through the seizure using our previously published methods to account for impacts of increased noise and single-unit waveshape changes caused by seizures. One cluster was closely associated with clinically defined seizure onset or spread. Entrainment of high-gamma activity to low-frequency ictal rhythms was the only metric that reliably identified this cluster at the level of individual seizures (P < 0.001). A second cluster demonstrated multi-unit characteristics resembling those in the first cluster, without concomitant high-gamma entrainment, suggesting feedforward effects from the seizure. The last cluster captured regions apparently unaffected by the ongoing seizure. Across all territories, the majority of both excitatory and inhibitory neurons reduced (69.2%) or ceased firing (21.8%). Transient increases in interneuronal firing rates were rare (13.5%) but showed evidence of intact feedforward inhibition, with maximal firing rate increases and waveshape deformations in territories not fully recruited but showing feedforward activity from the seizure, and a shift to burst-firing in seizure-recruited territories (P = 0.014). This study provides evidence for entrained high-gamma activity as an accurate biomarker of ictal recruitment in limbic structures. However, reduced neuronal firing suggested preserved inhibition in mesial temporal structures despite simultaneous indicators of seizure recruitment, in contrast to the inhibitory collapse scenario documented in neocortex. Further study is needed to determine if this activity is ubiquitous to hippocampal seizures or indicates a 'seizure-responsive' state in which the hippocampus is not the primary driver. If the latter, distinguishing such cases may help to refine the surgical treatment of mesial temporal lobe epilepsy.
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- Alexander H Agopyan-Miu
- Department of Neurological Surgery, Columbia University Medical Center, NewYork, NY 10032, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Columbia University Medical Center, NewYork, NY 10032, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Columbia University Medical Center, NewYork, NY 10032, USA
- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84132, USA
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, Columbia University Medical Center, NewYork, NY 10032, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, Columbia University Medical Center, NewYork, NY 10032, USA
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- Biosciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, UK
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- Department of Neurology, Columbia University Medical Center, NewYork, NY 10032, USA
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Davoudi S, Schwartz T, Labbe A, Trainor L, Lippé S. Inter-individual variability during neurodevelopment: an investigation of linear and nonlinear resting-state EEG features in an age-homogenous group of infants. Cereb Cortex 2023; 33:8734-8747. [PMID: 37143183 PMCID: PMC10321121 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhad154] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2022] [Revised: 04/11/2023] [Accepted: 04/12/2023] [Indexed: 05/06/2023] Open
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Electroencephalography measures are of interest in developmental neuroscience as potentially reliable clinical markers of brain function. Features extracted from electroencephalography are most often averaged across individuals in a population with a particular condition and compared statistically to the mean of a typically developing group, or a group with a different condition, to define whether a feature is representative of the populations as a whole. However, there can be large variability within a population, and electroencephalography features often change dramatically with age, making comparisons difficult. Combined with often low numbers of trials and low signal-to-noise ratios in pediatric populations, establishing biomarkers can be difficult in practice. One approach is to identify electroencephalography features that are less variable between individuals and are relatively stable in a healthy population during development. To identify such features in resting-state electroencephalography, which can be readily measured in many populations, we introduce an innovative application of statistical measures of variance for the analysis of resting-state electroencephalography data. Using these statistical measures, we quantified electroencephalography features commonly used to measure brain development-including power, connectivity, phase-amplitude coupling, entropy, and fractal dimension-according to their intersubject variability. Results from 51 6-month-old infants revealed that the complexity measures, including fractal dimension and entropy, followed by connectivity were the least variable features across participants. This stability was found to be greatest in the right parietotemporal region for both complexity feature, but no significant region of interest was found for connectivity feature. This study deepens our understanding of physiological patterns of electroencephalography data in developing brains, provides an example of how statistical measures can be used to analyze variability in resting-state electroencephalography in a homogeneous group of healthy infants, contributes to the establishment of robust electroencephalography biomarkers of neurodevelopment through the application of variance analyses, and reveals that nonlinear measures may be most relevant biomarkers of neurodevelopment.
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- Saeideh Davoudi
- CHU Sainte-Justine Research Center, Université de Montréal, Montréal H3T 1C5, Canada
- Department of Neuroscience, Université de Montréal, Montréal H3T 1J4, Canada
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- Department of Decision Sciences, HEC Montréal, Montréal H3T 2A7, Canada
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- Department of Decision Sciences, HEC Montréal, Montréal H3T 2A7, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behavior, McMaster University, Hamilton L8S 4K1, Canada
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- CHU Sainte-Justine Research Center, Université de Montréal, Montréal H3T 1C5, Canada
- Department of Psychology, Université de Montréal, Montréal H2V 2S9, Canada
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Yeh CH, Zhang C, Shi W, Lo MT, Tinkhauser G, Oswal A. Cross-Frequency Coupling and Intelligent Neuromodulation. CYBORG AND BIONIC SYSTEMS 2023; 4:0034. [PMID: 37266026 PMCID: PMC10231647 DOI: 10.34133/cbsystems.0034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2023] [Accepted: 05/02/2023] [Indexed: 06/03/2023] Open
Abstract
Cross-frequency coupling (CFC) reflects (nonlinear) interactions between signals of different frequencies. Evidence from both patient and healthy participant studies suggests that CFC plays an essential role in neuronal computation, interregional interaction, and disease pathophysiology. The present review discusses methodological advances and challenges in the computation of CFC with particular emphasis on potential solutions to spurious coupling, inferring intrinsic rhythms in a targeted frequency band, and causal interferences. We specifically focus on the literature exploring CFC in the context of cognition/memory tasks, sleep, and neurological disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease, epilepsy, and Parkinson's disease. Furthermore, we highlight the implication of CFC in the context and for the optimization of invasive and noninvasive neuromodulation and rehabilitation. Mainly, CFC could support advancing the understanding of the neurophysiology of cognition and motor control, serve as a biomarker for disease symptoms, and leverage the optimization of therapeutic interventions, e.g., closed-loop brain stimulation. Despite the evident advantages of CFC as an investigative and translational tool in neuroscience, further methodological improvements are required to facilitate practical and correct use in cyborg and bionic systems in the field.
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- Chien-Hung Yeh
- School of Information and Electronics,
Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
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- School of Information and Electronics,
Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
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- School of Information and Electronics,
Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences and Engineering,
National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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- Department of Neurology,
Bern University Hospital and University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- MRC Brain Network Dynamics Unit,
University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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Gauthier-Umaña C, Valderrama M, Múnera A, Nava-Mesa MO. BOARD-FTD-PACC: a graphical user interface for the synaptic and cross-frequency analysis derived from neural signals. Brain Inform 2023; 10:12. [PMID: 37155028 PMCID: PMC10167074 DOI: 10.1186/s40708-023-00191-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2022] [Accepted: 04/01/2023] [Indexed: 05/10/2023] Open
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In order to understand the link between brain functional states and behavioral/cognitive processes, the information carried in neural oscillations can be retrieved using different analytic techniques. Processing these different bio-signals is a complex, time-consuming, and often non-automatized process that requires customization, due to the type of signal acquired, acquisition method implemented, and the objectives of each individual research group. To this end, a new graphical user interface (GUI), named BOARD-FTD-PACC, was developed and designed to facilitate the visualization, quantification, and analysis of neurophysiological recordings. BOARD-FTD-PACC provides different and customizable tools that facilitate the task of analyzing post-synaptic activity and complex neural oscillatory data, mainly cross-frequency analysis. It is a flexible and user-friendly software that can be used by a wide range of users to extract valuable information from neurophysiological signals such as phase-amplitude coupling and relative power spectral density, among others. BOARD-FTD-PACC allows researchers to select, in the same open-source GUI, different approaches and techniques that will help promote a better understanding of synaptic and oscillatory activity in specific brain structures with or without stimulation.
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- Cécile Gauthier-Umaña
- Grupo de Investigación en Neurociencias (NeURos), Centro de Neurociencias Neurovitae-UR, Instituto de Medicina Traslacional (IMT), Escuela de Medicina y Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia
- Department of Systems Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogota, Colombia
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Behavioral Neurophysiology Laboratory, Physiological Sciences Department, School of Medicine, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Grupo de Investigación en Neurociencias (NeURos), Centro de Neurociencias Neurovitae-UR, Instituto de Medicina Traslacional (IMT), Escuela de Medicina y Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia.
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Victorino DB, Faber J, Pinheiro DJLL, Scorza FA, Almeida ACG, Costa ACS, Scorza CA. Toward the Identification of Neurophysiological Biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease in Down Syndrome: A Potential Role for Cross-Frequency Phase-Amplitude Coupling Analysis. Aging Dis 2023; 14:428-449. [PMID: 37008053 PMCID: PMC10017148 DOI: 10.14336/ad.2022.0906] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2022] [Accepted: 09/06/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
Abstract
Cross-frequency coupling (CFC) mechanisms play a central role in brain activity. Pathophysiological mechanisms leading to many brain disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), may produce unique patterns of brain activity detectable by electroencephalography (EEG). Identifying biomarkers for AD diagnosis is also an ambition among research teams working in Down syndrome (DS), given the increased susceptibility of people with DS to develop early-onset AD (DS-AD). Here, we review accumulating evidence that altered theta-gamma phase-amplitude coupling (PAC) may be one of the earliest EEG signatures of AD, and therefore may serve as an adjuvant tool for detecting cognitive decline in DS-AD. We suggest that this field of research could potentially provide clues to the biophysical mechanisms underlying cognitive dysfunction in DS-AD and generate opportunities for identifying EEG-based biomarkers with diagnostic and prognostic utility in DS-AD.
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- Daniella B Victorino
- Discipline of Neuroscience, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Federal University of São Paulo / Paulista Medical School, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
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- Discipline of Neuroscience, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Federal University of São Paulo / Paulista Medical School, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
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- Discipline of Neuroscience, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Federal University of São Paulo / Paulista Medical School, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
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- Discipline of Neuroscience, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Federal University of São Paulo / Paulista Medical School, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
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- Department of Biosystems Engineering, Federal University of São João Del Rei, Minas Gerais, MG, Brazil.
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- Division of Psychiatry, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States.
- Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States.
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- Discipline of Neuroscience, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Federal University of São Paulo / Paulista Medical School, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
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Ponzi A, Dura-Bernal S, Migliore M. Theta-gamma phase amplitude coupling in a hippocampal CA1 microcircuit. PLoS Comput Biol 2023; 19:e1010942. [PMID: 36952558 PMCID: PMC10072417 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010942] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2022] [Revised: 04/04/2023] [Accepted: 02/13/2023] [Indexed: 03/25/2023] Open
Abstract
Phase amplitude coupling (PAC) between slow and fast oscillations is found throughout the brain and plays important functional roles. Its neural origin remains unclear. Experimental findings are often puzzling and sometimes contradictory. Most computational models rely on pairs of pacemaker neurons or neural populations tuned at different frequencies to produce PAC. Here, using a data-driven model of a hippocampal microcircuit, we demonstrate that PAC can naturally emerge from a single feedback mechanism involving an inhibitory and excitatory neuron population, which interplay to generate theta frequency periodic bursts of higher frequency gamma. The model suggests the conditions under which a CA1 microcircuit can operate to elicit theta-gamma PAC, and highlights the modulatory role of OLM and PVBC cells, recurrent connectivity, and short term synaptic plasticity. Surprisingly, the results suggest the experimentally testable prediction that the generation of the slow population oscillation requires the fast one and cannot occur without it.
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- Adam Ponzi
- Institute of Biophysics, National Research Council, Palermo, Italy
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America
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- Institute of Biophysics, National Research Council, Palermo, Italy
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Juan E, Górska U, Kozma C, Papantonatos C, Bugnon T, Denis C, Kremen V, Worrell G, Struck AF, Bateman LM, Merricks EM, Blumenfeld H, Tononi G, Schevon C, Boly M. Distinct signatures of loss of consciousness in focal impaired awareness versus tonic-clonic seizures. Brain 2023; 146:109-123. [PMID: 36383415 PMCID: PMC10582624 DOI: 10.1093/brain/awac291] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2021] [Revised: 05/17/2022] [Accepted: 06/11/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
Abstract
Loss of consciousness is a hallmark of many epileptic seizures and carries risks of serious injury and sudden death. While cortical sleep-like activities accompany loss of consciousness during focal impaired awareness seizures, the mechanisms of loss of consciousness during focal to bilateral tonic-clonic seizures remain unclear. Quantifying differences in markers of cortical activation and ictal recruitment between focal impaired awareness and focal to bilateral tonic-clonic seizures may also help us to understand their different consequences for clinical outcomes and to optimize neuromodulation therapies. We quantified clinical signs of loss of consciousness and intracranial EEG activity during 129 focal impaired awareness and 50 focal to bilateral tonic-clonic from 41 patients. We characterized intracranial EEG changes both in the seizure onset zone and in areas remote from the seizure onset zone with a total of 3386 electrodes distributed across brain areas. First, we compared the dynamics of intracranial EEG sleep-like activities: slow-wave activity (1-4 Hz) and beta/delta ratio (a validated marker of cortical activation) during focal impaired awareness versus focal to bilateral tonic-clonic. Second, we quantified differences between focal to bilateral tonic-clonic and focal impaired awareness for a marker validated to detect ictal cross-frequency coupling: phase-locked high gamma (high-gamma phased-locked to low frequencies) and a marker of ictal recruitment: the epileptogenicity index. Third, we assessed changes in intracranial EEG activity preceding and accompanying behavioural generalization onset and their correlation with electromyogram channels. In addition, we analysed human cortical multi-unit activity recorded with Utah arrays during three focal to bilateral tonic-clonic seizures. Compared to focal impaired awareness, focal to bilateral tonic-clonic seizures were characterized by deeper loss of consciousness, even before generalization occurred. Unlike during focal impaired awareness, early loss of consciousness before generalization was accompanied by paradoxical decreases in slow-wave activity and by increases in high-gamma activity in parieto-occipital and temporal cortex. After generalization, when all patients displayed loss of consciousness, stronger increases in slow-wave activity were observed in parieto-occipital cortex, while more widespread increases in cortical activation (beta/delta ratio), ictal cross-frequency coupling (phase-locked high gamma) and ictal recruitment (epileptogenicity index). Behavioural generalization coincided with a whole-brain increase in high-gamma activity, which was especially synchronous in deep sources and could not be explained by EMG. Similarly, multi-unit activity analysis of focal to bilateral tonic-clonic revealed sustained increases in cortical firing rates during and after generalization onset in areas remote from the seizure onset zone. Overall, these results indicate that unlike during focal impaired awareness, the neural signatures of loss of consciousness during focal to bilateral tonic-clonic consist of paradoxical increases in cortical activation and neuronal firing found most consistently in posterior brain regions. These findings suggest differences in the mechanisms of ictal loss of consciousness between focal impaired awareness and focal to bilateral tonic-clonic and may account for the more negative prognostic consequences of focal to bilateral tonic-clonic.
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- Elsa Juan
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53719, USA
- Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 1018 WS, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53719, USA
- Smoluchowski Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, 30-348 Krakow, Poland
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53719, USA
- Department of Neurology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53705, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53705, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53719, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53705, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
- Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics, and Cybernetics, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, 16000, Czech Republic
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- Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53705, USA
- Department of Neurology, William S. Middleton Veterans Administration Hospital, Madison, WI 53705, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Columbia University, New York City, NY 10032, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06519, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53719, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Columbia University, New York City, NY 10032, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53719, USA
- Department of Neurology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53705, USA
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Scherer M, Wang T, Guggenberger R, Milosevic L, Gharabaghi A. Direct modulation index: A measure of phase amplitude coupling for neurophysiology data. Hum Brain Mapp 2022; 44:1862-1867. [PMID: 36579658 PMCID: PMC9980882 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.26190] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2022] [Revised: 11/22/2022] [Accepted: 12/11/2022] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Neural communication across different spatial and temporal scales is a topic of great interest in clinical and basic science. Phase-amplitude coupling (PAC) has attracted particular interest due to its functional role in a wide range of cognitive and motor functions. Here, we introduce a novel measure termed the direct modulation index (dMI). Based on the classical modulation index, dMI provides an estimate of PAC that is (1) bound to an absolute interval between 0 and +1, (2) resistant against noise, and (3) reliable even for small amounts of data. To highlight the properties of this newly-proposed measure, we evaluated dMI by comparing it to the classical modulation index, mean vector length, and phase-locking value using simulated data. We ascertained that dMI provides a more accurate estimate of PAC than the existing methods and that is resilient to varying noise levels and signal lengths. As such, dMI permits a reliable investigation of PAC, which may reveal insights crucial to our understanding of functional brain architecture in key contexts such as behaviour and cognition. A Python toolbox that implements dMI and other measures of PAC is freely available at https://github.com/neurophysiological-analysis/FiNN.
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- Maximilian Scherer
- Institute for Neuromodulation and NeurotechnologyUniversity Hospital and University of TübingenTübingenGermany,Krembil Brain InstituteUniversity Health NetworkTorontoCanada,Institute for Biomedical EngineeringUniversity of TorontoTorontoCanada
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- Institute for Neuromodulation and NeurotechnologyUniversity Hospital and University of TübingenTübingenGermany
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- Institute for Neuromodulation and NeurotechnologyUniversity Hospital and University of TübingenTübingenGermany
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- Institute for Neuromodulation and NeurotechnologyUniversity Hospital and University of TübingenTübingenGermany,Krembil Brain InstituteUniversity Health NetworkTorontoCanada,Institute for Biomedical EngineeringUniversity of TorontoTorontoCanada
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- Institute for Neuromodulation and NeurotechnologyUniversity Hospital and University of TübingenTübingenGermany
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Gu H, Chen H, Yao Q, Wang S, Ding Z, Yuan Z, Zhao X, Li X. Cortical theta-gamma coupling tracks the mental workload as an indicator of mental schema development during simulated quadrotor UAV operation. J Neural Eng 2022; 19. [PMID: 36541548 DOI: 10.1088/1741-2552/aca5b6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2022] [Accepted: 11/24/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Objective. In the emerging field of neuroergonomics, mental workload assessment is one of the most important problems. Previous studies have made some progress on the relationship between task difficulties and mental workload, but how the mental schema, a reflection of the understanding and mastery degree of a task, affects mental workload has not been clearly discussed.Approach. There is emerging appreciation for the role of theta-gamma coupling (TGC) in high-level cognitive functions. Here, we attempt to further our understanding of how mental schema development and task difficulty had an impact on mental workload from the perspective of TGC. Specifically, the variation of TGC coupling strength and coupling pattern was estimated with different test orders and task difficulties performed by 51 students in a ten-day simulated quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle flight training and test tasks.Main results. During the training, TGC increased with mental schema development. For the test tasks, TGC did not change with increasing task difficulty before the operator formed a mental schema but decreased with the increasing mental workload after the formation of the mental schema.Significance. Our results suggest that TGC was a robust indicator of mental schema development and could be biased by task difficulty. In conclusion, TGC can be a promising measure of mental workload, but only for experienced operators.
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- Heng Gu
- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, People's Republic of China.,School of Systems Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Computer Applied Technology of China North Industries Group Corporation Limited, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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Tsai CC, Liu HH, Tseng YL. Comparison of event-related modulation index and traditional methods for evaluating phase-amplitude coupling using simulated brain signals. BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS 2022; 116:569-583. [PMID: 36114844 DOI: 10.1007/s00422-022-00944-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2022] [Accepted: 08/29/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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The investigation of brain oscillations and connectivity has become an important topic in the recent decade. There are several types of interactions between neuronal oscillations, and one of the most interesting among these interactions is phase-amplitude coupling (PAC). Several methods have been proposed to measure the strength of PAC, including the phase-locking value, circular-linear correlation, and modulation index. In the current study, we compared these traditional PAC methods with simulated electroencephalogram signals. Further, to assess the PAC value at each time point, we also compared two recently established methods, event-related phase-locking value and event-related circular-linear correlation, with our newly proposed event-related modulation index (ERMI). Results indicated that the ERMI has better temporal resolution and is more tolerant to noise than the other two event-related methods, suggesting the advantages of utilizing ERMI in evaluating the strength of PAC within a brain region.
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- Chung-Chieh Tsai
- Department of Electrical Engineering, Fu Jen Catholic University, New Taipei City, Taiwan
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- Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
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Kostoglou K, Müller-Putz GR. Using linear parameter varying autoregressive models to measure cross frequency couplings in EEG signals. Front Hum Neurosci 2022; 16:915815. [PMID: 36188180 PMCID: PMC9525181 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2022.915815] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2022] [Accepted: 08/31/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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For years now, phase-amplitude cross frequency coupling (CFC) has been observed across multiple brain regions under different physiological and pathological conditions. It has been suggested that CFC serves as a mechanism that facilitates communication and information transfer between local and spatially separated neuronal populations. In non-invasive brain computer interfaces (BCI), CFC has not been thoroughly explored. In this work, we propose a CFC estimation method based on Linear Parameter Varying Autoregressive (LPV-AR) models and we assess its performance using both synthetic data and electroencephalographic (EEG) data recorded during attempted arm/hand movements of spinal cord injured (SCI) participants. Our results corroborate the potentiality of CFC as a feature for movement attempt decoding and provide evidence of the superiority of our proposed CFC estimation approach compared to other commonly used techniques.
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- Kyriaki Kostoglou
- Institute of Neural Engineering, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria
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- Institute of Neural Engineering, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria
- BioTechMed-Graz, Graz, Austria
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Sun J, Wang H, Jiang J. Euler common spatial pattern modulated with cross-frequency coupling. Knowl Inf Syst 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/s10115-022-01750-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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Chronic corticosterone exposure impairs emotional regulation and cognitive function through disturbing neural oscillations in mice. Behav Brain Res 2022; 434:114030. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2022.114030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2021] [Revised: 05/17/2022] [Accepted: 07/27/2022] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Is Cortical Theta-Gamma Phase-Amplitude Coupling Memory-Specific? Brain Sci 2022; 12:brainsci12091131. [PMID: 36138867 PMCID: PMC9496728 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci12091131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2022] [Revised: 08/19/2022] [Accepted: 08/22/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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One of the proposed neural mechanisms involved in working memory is coupling between the theta phase and gamma amplitude. For example, evidence from intracranial recordings shows that coupling between hippocampal theta and cortical gamma oscillations increases selectively during working memory tasks. Theta-gamma phase-amplitude coupling can also be measured non-invasively through scalp EEG; however, EEG can only assess coupling within cortical areas, and it is not yet clear if this cortical-only coupling is truly memory-specific, or a more general phenomenon. We tested this directly by measuring cortical coupling during three different conditions: a working memory task, an attention task, and a passive perception condition. We find similar levels of theta-gamma coupling in all three conditions, suggesting that cortical theta-gamma phase-amplitude coupling is not a memory-specific signal, but instead reflects some other attentional or perceptual processes. Implications for understanding the brain dynamics of visual working memory are discussed.
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Mercier MR, Dubarry AS, Tadel F, Avanzini P, Axmacher N, Cellier D, Vecchio MD, Hamilton LS, Hermes D, Kahana MJ, Knight RT, Llorens A, Megevand P, Melloni L, Miller KJ, Piai V, Puce A, Ramsey NF, Schwiedrzik CM, Smith SE, Stolk A, Swann NC, Vansteensel MJ, Voytek B, Wang L, Lachaux JP, Oostenveld R. Advances in human intracranial electroencephalography research, guidelines and good practices. Neuroimage 2022; 260:119438. [PMID: 35792291 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119438] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2021] [Revised: 05/23/2022] [Accepted: 06/30/2022] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Since the second-half of the twentieth century, intracranial electroencephalography (iEEG), including both electrocorticography (ECoG) and stereo-electroencephalography (sEEG), has provided an intimate view into the human brain. At the interface between fundamental research and the clinic, iEEG provides both high temporal resolution and high spatial specificity but comes with constraints, such as the individual's tailored sparsity of electrode sampling. Over the years, researchers in neuroscience developed their practices to make the most of the iEEG approach. Here we offer a critical review of iEEG research practices in a didactic framework for newcomers, as well addressing issues encountered by proficient researchers. The scope is threefold: (i) review common practices in iEEG research, (ii) suggest potential guidelines for working with iEEG data and answer frequently asked questions based on the most widespread practices, and (iii) based on current neurophysiological knowledge and methodologies, pave the way to good practice standards in iEEG research. The organization of this paper follows the steps of iEEG data processing. The first section contextualizes iEEG data collection. The second section focuses on localization of intracranial electrodes. The third section highlights the main pre-processing steps. The fourth section presents iEEG signal analysis methods. The fifth section discusses statistical approaches. The sixth section draws some unique perspectives on iEEG research. Finally, to ensure a consistent nomenclature throughout the manuscript and to align with other guidelines, e.g., Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS) and the OHBM Committee on Best Practices in Data Analysis and Sharing (COBIDAS), we provide a glossary to disambiguate terms related to iEEG research.
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Wang Y, Shi W, Yeh CH. Sleep Dynamic Analysis Technology Based on Cross-Phase-Amplitude Transfer Entropy in Multiple Brain Regions. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2022; 2022:2953-2956. [PMID: 36086398 DOI: 10.1109/embc48229.2022.9871136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Information flow existed across brain regions, and varies dynamically during sleep. In evaluating brain communication and neural-oscillation connectivity across spatiotemporal scales, the phase-amplitude coupling (PAC) is well-explored. However, the directional connectivity is still a deficiency. In this work, we propose a cross-phase-amplitude transfer entropy method in quantifying the characteristics of multi-regional sleep dynamics. The simulation of multivariate nonlinear and nonstationary signals verifies both effectiveness and veracity of the proposed algorithm. The results achieved in sleep EEG of healthy adults indicate that the direction of PAC is from the occipital lobe to the frontal lobe in the Awake and N1 sleep stages. And the flow of PAC turns to the opposite direction for the other sleep stages, i.e., frontal-to-occipital lobe. Besides, the δ-θ/α PAC gradually strengthens with the deepening of the sleep. Of note, the PAC results in the REM sleep stage vary across different frequency pairs. The obtained results support the proposed method as a reliable tool in evaluating brain functions during sleep with brain signals. Clinical Relevance- This manifests the brain communication and neuron-oscillation connectivity across spatiotemporal scales. The proposed framework may be useful in identifying multi-regional sleep dynamics.
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Wang X, Liu H, Ortigoza EB, Kota S, Liu Y, Zhang R, Chalak LF. Feasibility of EEG Phase-Amplitude Coupling to Stratify Encephalopathy Severity in Neonatal HIE Using Short Time Window. Brain Sci 2022; 12:brainsci12070854. [PMID: 35884659 PMCID: PMC9313332 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci12070854] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2022] [Revised: 06/27/2022] [Accepted: 06/28/2022] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Goal: It is challenging to clinically discern the severity of neonatal hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) within hours after birth in time for therapeutic decision-making for hypothermia. The goal of this study was to determine the shortest duration of the EEG based PAC index to provide real-time guidance for clinical decision-making for neonates with HIE. Methods: Neonates were recruited from a single-center Level III NICU between 2017 and 2019. A time-dependent, PAC-frequency-averaged index, tPACm, was calculated to characterize intrinsic coupling between the amplitudes of 12−30 Hz and the phases of 1−2 Hz oscillation from 6-h EEG data at electrode P3 during the first day of life, using different sizes of moving windows including 10 s, 20 s, 1 min, 2 min, 5 min, 10 min, 20 min, 30 min, 60 min, and 120 min. Time-dependent receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves were generated to examine the performance of the accurate window tPACm as a neurophysiologic biomarker. Results: A total of 33 neonates (mild-HIE, n = 15 and moderate/severe HIE, n = 18) were enrolled. Mixed effects models demonstrated that tPACm between the two groups was significantly different with window time segments of 3−120 min. By observing the estimates of group differences in tPACm across different window sizes, we found 20 min was the shortest window size to optimally distinguish the two groups (p < 0.001). Time-varying ROC showed significant average area-under-the-curve of 0.82. Conclusions: We demonstrated the feasibility of using tPACm with a 20 min EEG time window to differentiate the severity of HIE and facilitate earlier diagnosis and treatment initiation.
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- Xinlong Wang
- Department of Bioengineering, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 75220, USA; (X.W.); (H.L.)
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 75220, USA; (X.W.); (H.L.)
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- Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75220, USA;
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75220, USA;
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- Department of Population and Data Sciences, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75220, USA;
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- Departments of Internal Medicine and Neurology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75220, USA;
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- Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75220, USA;
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +1-214-648-3753; Fax: +1-214-648-2481
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Güntekin B, Aktürk T, Arakaki X, Bonanni L, Del Percio C, Edelmayer R, Farina F, Ferri R, Hanoğlu L, Kumar S, Lizio R, Lopez S, Murphy B, Noce G, Randall F, Sack AT, Stocchi F, Yener G, Yıldırım E, Babiloni C. Are there consistent abnormalities in event-related EEG oscillations in patients with Alzheimer's disease compared to other diseases belonging to dementia? Psychophysiology 2022; 59:e13934. [PMID: 34460957 DOI: 10.1111/psyp.13934] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2021] [Revised: 07/31/2021] [Accepted: 08/09/2021] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Cerebrospinal and structural-molecular neuroimaging in-vivo biomarkers are recommended for diagnostic purposes in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other dementias; however, they do not explain the effects of AD neuropathology on neurophysiological mechanisms underpinning cognitive processes. Here, an Expert Panel from the Electrophysiology Professional Interest Area of the Alzheimer's Association reviewed the field literature and reached consensus on the event-related electroencephalographic oscillations (EROs) that show consistent abnormalities in patients with significant cognitive deficits due to Alzheimer's, Parkinson's (PD), Lewy body (LBD), and cerebrovascular diseases. Converging evidence from oddball paradigms showed that, as compared to cognitively unimpaired (CU) older adults, AD patients had lower amplitude in widespread delta (>4 Hz) and theta (4-7 Hz) phase-locked EROs as a function of disease severity. Similar effects were also observed in PD, LBD, and/or cerebrovascular cognitive impairment patients. Non-phase-locked alpha (8-12 Hz) and beta (13-30 Hz) oscillations were abnormally reduced (event-related desynchronization, ERD) in AD patients relative to CU. However, studies on patients with other dementias remain lacking. Delta and theta phase-locked EROs during oddball tasks may be useful neurophysiological biomarkers of cognitive systems at work in heuristic and intervention clinical trials performed in AD patients, but more research is needed regarding their potential role for other dementias.
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- Bahar Güntekin
- Research Institute for Health Sciences and Technologies (SABITA), Regenerative and Restorative Medicine Research Center (REMER), Clinical Electrophysiology, Neuroimaging and Neuromodulation Lab, Istanbul Medipol University, Istanbul, Turkey
- Department of Biophysics, School of Medicine, Istanbul Medipol University, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Research Institute for Health Sciences and Technologies (SABITA), Regenerative and Restorative Medicine Research Center (REMER), Clinical Electrophysiology, Neuroimaging and Neuromodulation Lab, Istanbul Medipol University, Istanbul, Turkey
- Vocational School, Program of Electroneurophysiology, Istanbul Medipol University, Istanbul, Turkey
- Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
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- Department of Neuroscience Imaging and Clinical Sciences and CESI, University G d'Annunzio of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology "Vittorio Erspamer", Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Istanbul Medipol University, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Adult Neurodevelopmental and Geriatric Psychiatry Division, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology "Vittorio Erspamer", Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
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- Institute for Research and Medical Care, IRCCS San Raffaele Pisana, Rome, Italy
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- Izmir Biomedicine and Genome Center, Dokuz Eylul University Health Campus, Izmir, Turkey
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- Research Institute for Health Sciences and Technologies (SABITA), Regenerative and Restorative Medicine Research Center (REMER), Clinical Electrophysiology, Neuroimaging and Neuromodulation Lab, Istanbul Medipol University, Istanbul, Turkey
- Vocational School, Program of Electroneurophysiology, Istanbul Medipol University, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Alzheimer's Association, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Institute for Research and Medical Care, Hospital San Raffaele of Cassino, Cassino, Italy
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Jin L, Shi W, Zhang C, Yeh CH. Frequency Nesting Interactions in the Subthalamic Nucleus Correlate With the Step Phases for Parkinson’s Disease. Front Physiol 2022; 13:890753. [PMID: 35574448 PMCID: PMC9100409 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2022.890753] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2022] [Accepted: 03/31/2022] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Gait disturbance in Parkinson’s disease (PD) can be ameliorated by sound stimulation. Given that excessive β synchronization in basal ganglia is linked to motor impairment in PD, whether the frequency nesting interactions are associated with the gait problem is far from clear. To this end, the masking phase-amplitude coupling (PAC) method was proposed to overcome the trade-off between intrinsic nonlinearity/non-stationarity and demand for predetermined frequencies, normally extracted by the filter. In this study, we analyzed LFPs recorded from 13 patients (one female) with PD during stepping with bilateral deep brain electrodes implanted in the subthalamic nucleus (STN). We found that not only high-frequency oscillation (100–300 Hz) was modulated by β (13–30 Hz) but also β and γ amplitude were modulated by their low-frequency components in δ/θ/α and δ/θ/α/β bands. These PAC values were suppressed by sound stimulation, along with an improvement in gait. We also showed that gait-related high-β (Hβ) modulation in the STN was sensitive to auditory cues, and Hβ gait-phase modulation increased with a metronome. Meanwhile, phase-locking values (PLVs) across all frequencies were significantly suppressed around contralateral heel strikes, manifesting the contralateral step as a critical gait phase in gait initiation for PD. Only the PLVs around contralateral steps were sensitive to auditory cues. Our results support masking PAC as an effective method in exploring frequency nesting interactions in LFPs and reveal the linkages between sound stimulation and couplings related to gait phases in the STN. These findings raise the possibility that nesting interactions in the STN work as feasible biomarkers in alleviating gait disorders.
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- Luyao Jin
- School of Information and Electronics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
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- School of Information and Electronics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
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- School of Information and Electronics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
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- School of Information and Electronics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
- Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- *Correspondence: Chien-Hung Yeh,
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Ye H, Li G, Sheng X, Zhu X. Phase-amplitude coupling between low-frequency scalp EEG and high-frequency intracranial EEG during working memory task. J Neural Eng 2022; 19. [PMID: 35441594 DOI: 10.1088/1741-2552/ac63e9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2021] [Accepted: 04/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Objective. Revealing the relationship between simultaneous scalp electroencephalography (EEG) and intracranial electroencephalography (iEEG) is of great importance for both neuroscientific research and translational applications. However, whether prominent iEEG features in the high-gamma band can be reflected by scalp EEG is largely unknown. To address this, we investigated the phase-amplitude coupling (PAC) phenomenon between the low-frequency band of scalp EEG and the high-gamma band of iEEG.Approach. We analyzed a simultaneous iEEG and scalp EEG dataset acquired under a verbal working memory paradigm from nine epilepsy subjects. The PAC values between pairs of scalp EEG channel and identified iEEG channel were explored. After identifying the frequency combinations and electrode locations that generated the most significant PAC values, we compared the PAC values of different task periods (encoding, maintenance, and retrieval) and memory loads.Main results. We demonstrated that the amplitude of high-gamma activities in the entorhinal cortex, hippocampus, and amygdala was correlated to the delta or theta phase at scalp locations such as Cz and Pz. In particular, the frequency bin that generated the maximum PAC value centered at 3.16-3.84 Hz for the phase and 50-85 Hz for the amplitude. Moreover, our results showed that PAC values for the retrieval period were significantly higher than those of the encoding and maintenance periods, and the PAC was also influenced by the memory load.Significance. This is the first human simultaneous iEEG and scalp EEG study demonstrating that the amplitude of iEEG high-gamma components is associated with the phase of low-frequency components in scalp EEG. These findings enhance our understanding of multiscale neural interactions during working memory, and meanwhile, provide a new perspective to estimate intracranial high-frequency features with non-invasive neural recordings.
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- Huanpeng Ye
- State Key Laboratory of Mechanical System and Vibration, School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Mechanical System and Vibration, School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Mechanical System and Vibration, School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Mechanical System and Vibration, School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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Assessment of Dynamic Phase Amplitude Coupling Using Matching Pursuit. J Neurosci Methods 2022; 376:109610. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2022.109610] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2021] [Revised: 02/26/2022] [Accepted: 04/21/2022] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Mc Laughlin M, Khatoun A, Asamoah B. Detection of tACS Entrainment Critically Depends on Epoch Length. Front Cell Neurosci 2022; 16:806556. [PMID: 35360495 PMCID: PMC8963722 DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2022.806556] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2021] [Accepted: 02/11/2022] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Neural entrainment is the phase synchronization of a population of neurons to an external rhythmic stimulus such as applied in the context of transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS). tACS can cause profound effects on human behavior. However, there remain a significant number of studies that find no behavioral effect when tACS is applied to human subjects. To investigate this discrepancy, we applied time sensitive phase lock value (PLV) based analysis to single unit data from the rat motor cortex. The analysis revealed that detection of neural entrainment depends critically on the epoch length within which spiking information is accumulated. Increasing the epoch length allowed for detection of progressively weaker levels of neural entrainment. Based on this single unit analysis, we hypothesized that tACS effects on human behavior would be more easily detected in a behavior paradigm which utilizes longer epoch lengths. We tested this by using tACS to entrain tremor in patients and healthy volunteers. When the behavioral data were analyzed using short duration epochs tremor entrainment effects were not detectable. However, as the epoch length was progressively increased, weak tremor entrainment became detectable. These results suggest that tACS behavioral paradigms that rely on the accumulation of information over long epoch lengths will tend to be successful at detecting behavior effects. However, tACS paradigms that rely on short epoch lengths are less likely to detect effects.
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Johnson EL, Yin Q, O'Hara NB, Tang L, Jeong JW, Asano E, Ofen N. Dissociable oscillatory theta signatures of memory formation in the developing brain. Curr Biol 2022; 32:1457-1469.e4. [PMID: 35172128 PMCID: PMC9007830 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.01.053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2021] [Revised: 12/15/2021] [Accepted: 01/19/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Understanding complex human brain functions is critically informed by studying such functions during development. Here, we addressed a major gap in models of human memory by leveraging rare direct electrophysiological recordings from children and adolescents. Specifically, memory relies on interactions between the medial temporal lobe (MTL) and prefrontal cortex (PFC), and the maturation of these interactions is posited to play a key role in supporting memory development. To understand the nature of MTL-PFC interactions, we examined subdural recordings from MTL and PFC in 21 neurosurgical patients aged 5.9-20.5 years as they performed an established scene memory task. We determined signatures of memory formation by comparing the study of subsequently recognized to forgotten scenes in single trials. Results establish that MTL and PFC interact via two distinct theta mechanisms, an ∼3-Hz oscillation that supports amplitude coupling and slows down with age and an ∼7-Hz oscillation that supports phase coupling and speeds up with age. Slow and fast theta interactions immediately preceding scene onset further explained age-related differences in recognition performance. Last, with additional diffusion imaging data, we linked both functional mechanisms to the structural maturation of the cingulum tract. Our findings establish system-level dynamics of memory formation and suggest that MTL and PFC interact via increasingly dissociable mechanisms as memory improves across development.
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- Elizabeth L Johnson
- Life-Span Cognitive Neuroscience Program, Institute of Gerontology and Merrill Palmer Skillman Institute, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202, USA; Departments of Medical Social Sciences and Pediatrics, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA; Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
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- Life-Span Cognitive Neuroscience Program, Institute of Gerontology and Merrill Palmer Skillman Institute, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202, USA; Department of Psychology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
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- Translational Neuroscience Program, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
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- Life-Span Cognitive Neuroscience Program, Institute of Gerontology and Merrill Palmer Skillman Institute, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202, USA; Department of Psychology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
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- Translational Neuroscience Program, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48201, USA; Departments of Pediatrics and Neurology, Children's Hospital of Michigan, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
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- Translational Neuroscience Program, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48201, USA; Departments of Pediatrics and Neurology, Children's Hospital of Michigan, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
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- Life-Span Cognitive Neuroscience Program, Institute of Gerontology and Merrill Palmer Skillman Institute, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202, USA; Department of Psychology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202, USA; Translational Neuroscience Program, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48201, USA.
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Wang X, Liu H, Kota S, Das Y, Liu Y, Zhang R, Chalak L. EEG phase-amplitude coupling to stratify encephalopathy severity in the developing brain. COMPUTER METHODS AND PROGRAMS IN BIOMEDICINE 2022; 214:106593. [PMID: 34959157 DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2021.106593] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2021] [Revised: 11/19/2021] [Accepted: 12/15/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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BACKGROUND Neonatal hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) is difficult to classify within the narrow therapeutic window of hypothermia. Neurophysiological biomarkers are needed for timely differentiation of encephalopathy severity within the short therapeutic window for initiation of hypothermia therapy. METHODS A novel analysis of mean Phase Amplitude Coupling index, PACm, of amplitudes high frequencies (12-30 Hz) coupled with phases of low (1,2 Hz) frequencies was calculated from the 6 h EEG recorded during the first day of life. PACm values were compared to identify differences between mild versus higher-grade HIE, respectively, for each of the EEG electrodes. A receiver operating characteristic curve was generated to examine the performance of PACm. RESULTS 38 newborns with different HIE grades were enrolled in the first 6 h of life. Threshold PACm 0.001 at Fz, O1, O2, P3, and P4 had AUC >0.9 to differentiate HIE severity and predict the persistence of moderate to severe encephalopathy that requires treatment with hypothermia. CONCLUSION PAC is a promising biomarker to identify mild from higher severity of HIE after birth.
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- Xinlong Wang
- Department of Bioengineering, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States
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- Department of Population and Data Sciences, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States
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- Departments of Internal Medicine and Neurology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States.
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Johnson EL, Arciniega H, Jones KT, Kilgore-Gomez A, Berryhill ME. Individual predictors and electrophysiological signatures of working memory enhancement in aging. Neuroimage 2022; 250:118939. [PMID: 35104647 PMCID: PMC8923157 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.118939] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2022] [Accepted: 01/25/2022] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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A primary goal of translational neuroscience is to identify the neural mechanisms of age-related cognitive decline and develop protocols to maximally improve cognition. Here, we demonstrate how interventions that apply noninvasive neurostimulation to older adults improve working memory (WM). We found that one session of sham-controlled transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) selectively improved WM in older adults with more education, extending earlier work and underscoring the importance of identifying individual predictors of tDCS responsivity. Improvements in WM were associated with two distinct electrophysiological signatures. First, a broad enhancement of theta network synchrony tracked improvements in behavioral accuracy, with tDCS effects moderated by education level. Further analysis revealed that accuracy dynamics reflected an anterior-posterior network distribution regardless of cathode placement. Second, specific enhancements of theta-gamma phase-amplitude coupling (PAC) reflecting tDCS current flow tracked improvements in reaction time (RT). RT dynamics further explained inter-individual variability in WM improvement independent of education. These findings illuminate theta network synchrony and theta-gamma PAC as distinct but complementary mechanisms supporting WM in aging. Both mechanisms are amenable to intervention, the effectiveness of which can be predicted by individual demographic factors.
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- Elizabeth L Johnson
- Northwestern University, Departments of Medical Social Sciences and Pediatrics, Chicago, IL, 60611.
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- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02215
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- University of California-San Francisco, Department of Neurology, Neuroscape, San Francisco, CA, 94158
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- Department of Psychology, Program in Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Program in Integrative Neuroscience, University of Nevada, Reno, 89557
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- Department of Psychology, Program in Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Program in Integrative Neuroscience, University of Nevada, Reno, 89557.
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Ali R, Gollwitzer S, Reindl C, Hamer H, Coras R, Blümcke I, Buchfelder M, Hastreiter P, Rampp S. Phase-Amplitude Coupling measures for determination of the epileptic network: A methodological comparison. J Neurosci Methods 2022; 370:109484. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2022.109484] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2021] [Revised: 12/29/2021] [Accepted: 01/18/2022] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Ghinda DC, Salimpour Y, Crone NE, Kang J, Anderson WS. Dynamical Analysis of Seizure in Epileptic Brain: a Dynamic Phase-Amplitude Coupling Estimation Approach. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2021; 2021:5970-5973. [PMID: 34892478 DOI: 10.1109/embc46164.2021.9629778] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Cross-frequency coupling in general and phase-amplitude coupling (PAC) as a particular form of it, provides an opportunity to investigate the complex interactions between neural oscillations in the human brain and neurological disorders such as epilepsy. Using PAC detection methods on temporal sliding windows, we developed a map of dynamic PAC evolution to investigate the spatiotemporal changes occurring during ictal transitions in a patient with intractable mesial temporal lobe epilepsy. The map is built by computing the modulation index between the amplitude of high frequency oscillations and the phase of lower frequency rhythms from the intracranial stereoelectroencephalography recordings during seizure. Our preliminary results show early abnormal PAC changes occurring in the preictal state prior to the occurrence of clinical or visible electrographic seizure onset, and suggest that dynamic PAC measures may serve as a potential clinical technique for analyzing seizure dynamics.Clinical Relevance-Application of a dynamic temporal PAC map as a new tool may provide novel insights into the neurophysiology of epileptic seizure activity and its spatio-temporal dynamics.
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Khuvis S, Hwang ST, Mehta AD. Intracranial EEG Biomarkers for Seizure Lateralization in Rapidly-Bisynchronous Epilepsy After Laser Corpus Callosotomy. Front Neurol 2021; 12:696492. [PMID: 34690909 PMCID: PMC8531267 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2021.696492] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2021] [Accepted: 09/06/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Objective: It has been asserted that high-frequency analysis of intracranial EEG (iEEG) data may yield information useful in localizing epileptogenic foci. Methods: We tested whether proposed biomarkers could predict lateralization based on iEEG data collected prior to corpus callosotomy (CC) in three patients with bisynchronous epilepsy, whose seizures lateralized definitively post-CC. Lateralization data derived from algorithmically-computed ictal phase-locked high gamma (PLHG), high gamma amplitude (HGA), and low-frequency (filtered) line length (LFLL), as well as interictal high-frequency oscillation (HFO) and interictal epileptiform discharge (IED) rate metrics were compared against ground-truth lateralization from post-CC ictal iEEG. Results: Pre-CC unilateral IEDs were more frequent on the more-pathologic side in all subjects. HFO rate predicted lateralization in one subject, but was sensitive to detection threshold. On pre-CC data, no ictal metric showed better predictive power than any other. All post-corpus callosotomy seizures lateralized to the pathological hemisphere using PLHG, HGA, and LFLL metrics. Conclusions: While quantitative metrics of IED rate and ictal HGA, PHLG, and LFLL all accurately lateralize based on post-CC iEEG, only IED rate consistently did so based on pre-CC data. Significance: Quantitative analysis of IEDs may be useful in lateralizing seizure pathology. More work is needed to develop reliable techniques for high-frequency iEEG analysis.
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- Simon Khuvis
- Department of Neurosurgery, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Manhasset, NY, United States.,Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Northwell Health, Manhasset, NY, United States
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- Department of Neurology, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Manhasset, NY, United States
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Manhasset, NY, United States.,Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Northwell Health, Manhasset, NY, United States
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Lepage KQ, Fleming CN, Witcher M, Vijayan S. Multitaper estimates of phase-amplitude coupling. J Neural Eng 2021; 18:10.1088/1741-2552/ac1deb. [PMID: 34399415 PMCID: PMC10511062 DOI: 10.1088/1741-2552/ac1deb] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2021] [Accepted: 08/16/2021] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Phase-amplitude coupling (PAC) is the association of the amplitude of a high-frequency oscillation with the phase of a low-frequency oscillation. In neuroscience, this relationship provides a mechanism by which neural activity might be coordinated between distant regions. The dangers and pitfalls of assessing PAC with commonly used statistical measures have been well-documented. The limitations of these measures include: (1) response to non-oscillatory, high-frequency, broad-band activity, (2) response to high-frequency components of the low-frequency oscillation, (3) adhoc selection of analysis frequency-intervals, and (4) reliance upon data shuffling to assess statistical significance.Objective.To address issues (1)-(4) by introducing a nonparametric multitaper estimator of PAC.Approach.In this work, a multitaper PAC estimator is proposed that addresses these issues. Specifically, issue (1) is addressed by replacing the analytic signal envelope estimator computed using the Hilbert transform with a multitaper estimator that down-weights non-sinusoidal activity using a classical, multitaper super-resolution technique. Issue (2) is addressed by replacing coherence between the low-frequency and high-frequency components in a standard PAC estimator with multitaper partial coherence, while issue (3) is addressed with a physical argument regarding meaningful neural oscillation. Finally, asymptotic statistical assessment of the multitaper estimator is introduced to address issue (4).Main results.Multitaper estimates of PAC are introduced. Their efficacy is demonstrated in simulation and on human intracranial recordings obtained from epileptic patients.Significance.This work facilitates a more informative statistical assessment of PAC, a phenomena exhibited by many neural systems, and provides a basis upon which further nonparametric multitaper-related methods can be developed.
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- Kyle Q Lepage
- School of Neuroscience, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States of America
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- School of Neuroscience, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States of America
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- School of Medicine, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States of America
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- School of Neuroscience, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States of America
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Todd J, Cardellicchio P, Swami V, Cardini F, Aspell JE. Weaker implicit interoception is associated with more negative body image: Evidence from gastric-alpha phase amplitude coupling and the heartbeat evoked potential. Cortex 2021; 143:254-266. [PMID: 34482968 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2021.07.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2020] [Revised: 05/04/2021] [Accepted: 07/08/2021] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Interoception refers to the processing of internal bodily stimuli, while body image refers to appearance-related perceptions, affect, and cognitions. Previous research has found that body image is associated with self-reported and behavioural indices of interoception. Here, we extended this research by examining associations between measures of positive (i.e., body appreciation, functionality appreciation) and negative body image (i.e., body shame, weight preoccupation) and two electrophysiological indices of interoceptive processing, namely the heartbeat evoked potential (HEP) and gastric-alpha phase-amplitude coupling (PAC), in a sample of 36 adults. Significant negative associations were identified between the indices of negative body image and the interoception variables. Specifically, more negative HEP amplitude and lower gastric-alpha PAC were both associated with greater body shame and weight preoccupation. However, no significant associations were identified for the indices of positive body image. These findings extend previous work by demonstrating that there are significant associations between negative body image and previously unexplored components of cardiac and gastric interoception. This, in turn, could have important clinical applications, such as the HEP and gastric-alpha PAC both serving as biomarkers of negative body image.
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- Jennifer Todd
- School of Psychology and Sport Science, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, United Kingdom; Centre for Psychological Medicine, Perdana University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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- IIT@UniFe Center for Translational Neurophysiology, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Ferrara, Italy
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- School of Psychology and Sport Science, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, United Kingdom; Centre for Psychological Medicine, Perdana University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- School of Psychology and Sport Science, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- School of Psychology and Sport Science, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Yin L, Tian F, Hu R, Li Z, Yin F. Estimating Phase Amplitude Coupling between Neural Oscillations Based on Permutation and Entropy. ENTROPY 2021; 23:e23081070. [PMID: 34441210 PMCID: PMC8393234 DOI: 10.3390/e23081070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2021] [Revised: 08/08/2021] [Accepted: 08/13/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Cross-frequency phase-amplitude coupling (PAC) plays an important role in neuronal oscillations network, reflecting the interaction between the phase of low-frequency oscillation (LFO) and amplitude of the high-frequency oscillations (HFO). Thus, we applied four methods based on permutation analysis to measure PAC, including multiscale permutation mutual information (MPMI), permutation conditional mutual information (PCMI), symbolic joint entropy (SJE), and weighted-permutation mutual information (WPMI). To verify the ability of these four algorithms, a performance test including the effects of coupling strength, signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs), and data length was evaluated by using simulation data. It was shown that the performance of SJE was similar to that of other approaches when measuring PAC strength, but the computational efficiency of SJE was the highest among all these four methods. Moreover, SJE can also accurately identify the PAC frequency range under the interference of spike noise. All in all, the results demonstrate that SJE is better for evaluating PAC between neural oscillations.
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- Liyong Yin
- Department of Internal Medicine, Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang 050011, China;
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- School of Information Science and Engineering (School of Software), Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao 066004, China; (F.T.); (R.H.); (Z.L.)
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- School of Information Science and Engineering (School of Software), Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao 066004, China; (F.T.); (R.H.); (Z.L.)
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- School of Information Science and Engineering (School of Software), Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao 066004, China; (F.T.); (R.H.); (Z.L.)
- Hebei Key Laboratory of Information Transmission and Signal Processing, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao 066004, China
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang 050011, China;
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Juan CH, Nguyen KT, Liang WK, Quinn AJ, Chen YH, Muggleton NG, Yeh JR, Woolrich MW, Nobre AC, Huang NE. Revealing the Dynamic Nature of Amplitude Modulated Neural Entrainment With Holo-Hilbert Spectral Analysis. Front Neurosci 2021; 15:673369. [PMID: 34421511 PMCID: PMC8375503 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2021.673369] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2021] [Accepted: 07/14/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Patterns in external sensory stimuli can rapidly entrain neuronally generated oscillations observed in electrophysiological data. Here, we manipulated the temporal dynamics of visual stimuli with cross-frequency coupling (CFC) characteristics to generate steady-state visual evoked potentials (SSVEPs). Although CFC plays a pivotal role in neural communication, some cases reporting CFC may be false positives due to non-sinusoidal oscillations that can generate artificially inflated coupling values. Additionally, temporal characteristics of dynamic and non-linear neural oscillations cannot be fully derived with conventional Fourier-based analyses mainly due to trade off of temporal resolution for frequency precision. In an attempt to resolve these limitations of linear analytical methods, Holo-Hilbert Spectral Analysis (HHSA) was investigated as a potential approach for examination of non-linear and non-stationary CFC dynamics in this study. Results from both simulation and SSVEPs demonstrated that temporal dynamic and non-linear CFC features can be revealed with HHSA. Specifically, the results of simulation showed that the HHSA is less affected by the non-sinusoidal oscillation and showed possible cross frequency interactions embedded in the simulation without any a priori assumptions. In the SSVEPs, we found that the time-varying cross-frequency interaction and the bidirectional coupling between delta and alpha/beta bands can be observed using HHSA, confirming dynamic physiological signatures of neural entrainment related to cross-frequency coupling. These findings not only validate the efficacy of the HHSA in revealing the natural characteristics of signals, but also shed new light on further applications in analysis of brain electrophysiological data with the aim of understanding the functional roles of neuronal oscillation in various cognitive functions.
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- Chi-Hung Juan
- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Central University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan
- Cognitive Intelligence and Precision Healthcare Center, National Central University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan
- Department of Psychology, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
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- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Central University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan
- Faculty of Electronics Engineering, Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Central University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan
- Cognitive Intelligence and Precision Healthcare Center, National Central University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan
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- Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Central University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan
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- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Central University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan
- Cognitive Intelligence and Precision Healthcare Center, National Central University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan
- Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, United Kingdom
- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Cognitive Intelligence and Precision Healthcare Center, National Central University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan
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- Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Cognitive Intelligence and Precision Healthcare Center, National Central University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan
- Data Analysis and Application Laboratory, The First Institute of Oceanography, Qingdao, China
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Gwon D, Ahn M. Alpha and high gamma phase amplitude coupling during motor imagery and weighted cross-frequency coupling to extract discriminative cross-frequency patterns. Neuroimage 2021; 240:118403. [PMID: 34280525 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2020] [Revised: 06/27/2021] [Accepted: 07/15/2021] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Motor imagery modulates specific neural oscillations like actual movement does. Representatively, suppression of the alpha power (e.g., event-related desynchronization [ERD]) is the typical pattern of motor imagery in the motor cortex. However, in addition to this amplitude-based feature, the coupling across frequencies includes important information about the brain functions and the existence of such complex information has been reported in various invasive studies. Yet, the interaction across multiple frequencies during motor imagery processing is still unclear and has not been widely studied, particularly concerning the non-invasive signals. In this study, we provide empirical evidence of the comodulation between the phase of alpha rhythm and the amplitude of high gamma rhythm during the motor imagery process. We used electroencephalography (EEG) in our investigation during the imagination of left- or right-hand movement recorded from 52 healthy subjects, and quantified the ERD of alpha and phase-amplitude coupling (PAC) which is a relative change of modulation index to the base line period (before the cue). As a result, we found that the coupling between the phase of alpha (8-12 Hz) and the amplitude of high gamma (70-120 Hz) and this PAC decreases during motor imagery and then rebounds to the baseline like alpha ERD (r = 0.29 to 0.42). This correlation between PAC and ERD was particularly stronger in the ipsilateral area. In addition, trials that demonstrated higher alpha power during the ready period (before the cue) showed a larger ERD during motor imagery and similarly, trials with higher modulation index during the ready period yielded a greater decrease in PAC during imagery. In the classification analysis, we found that the effective phase frequency that showed better decoding accuracy in left and right-hand imagery, varied across subjects. Motivated by result, we proposed a weighted cross-frequency coupling (WCFC) method that extracts the maximal discriminative feature by combining band power and CFC. In the evaluation, WCFC with only two electrodes yielded a performance comparable to the conventional algorithm with 64 electrodes in classifying left and right-hand motor imagery. These results indicate that the phase-amplitude frequency plays an important role in motor imagery, and that optimizing this frequency ranges is crucial for extracting information features to decode the motor imagery types.
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- Daeun Gwon
- Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Handong Global University, 37554 South Korea
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- Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Handong Global University, 37554 South Korea; School of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Handong Global University, 37554 South Korea.
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Marimpis AD, Dimitriadis SI, Goebel R. Dyconnmap: Dynamic connectome mapping-A neuroimaging python module. Hum Brain Mapp 2021; 42:4909-4939. [PMID: 34250674 PMCID: PMC8449119 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.25589] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2021] [Revised: 06/10/2021] [Accepted: 06/25/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Despite recent progress in the analysis of neuroimaging data sets, our comprehension of the main mechanisms and principles which govern human brain cognition and function remains incomplete. Network neuroscience makes substantial efforts to manipulate these challenges and provide real answers. For the last decade, researchers have been modelling brain structure and function via a graph or network that comprises brain regions that are either anatomically connected via tracts or functionally via a more extensive repertoire of functional associations. Network neuroscience is a relatively new multidisciplinary scientific avenue of the study of complex systems by pursuing novel ways to analyze, map, store and model the essential elements and their interactions in complex neurobiological systems, particularly the human brain, the most complex system in nature. Due to a rapid expansion of neuroimaging data sets' size and complexity, it is essential to propose and adopt new empirical tools to track dynamic patterns between neurons and brain areas and create comprehensive maps. In recent years, there is a rapid growth of scientific interest in moving functional neuroimaging analysis beyond simplified group or time‐averaged approaches and sophisticated algorithms that can capture the time‐varying properties of functional connectivity. We describe algorithms and network metrics that can capture the dynamic evolution of functional connectivity under this perspective. We adopt the word ‘chronnectome’ (integration of the Greek word ‘Chronos’, which means time, and connectome) to describe this specific branch of network neuroscience that explores how mutually informed brain activity correlates across time and brain space in a functional way. We also describe how good temporal mining of temporally evolved dynamic functional networks could give rise to the detection of specific brain states over which our brain evolved. This characteristic supports our complex human mind. The temporal evolution of these brain states and well‐known network metrics could give rise to new analytic trends. Functional brain networks could also increase the multi‐faced nature of the dynamic networks revealing complementary information. Finally, we describe a python module (https://github.com/makism/dyconnmap) which accompanies this article and contains a collection of dynamic complex network analytics and measures and demonstrates its great promise for the study of a healthy subject's repeated fMRI scans.
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- Avraam D Marimpis
- Cognitive Neuroscience Department, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.,Neuroinformatics Group, Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Center (CUBRIC), School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom.,Brain Innovation B.V, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Neuroinformatics Group, Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Center (CUBRIC), School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom.,Institute of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, Cardiff University School of Medicine, Cardiff, United Kingdom.,Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Center (CUBRIC), School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom.,School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom.,Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom.,MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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- Cognitive Neuroscience Department, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.,Brain Innovation B.V, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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Salimi M, Tabasi F, Nazari M, Ghazvineh S, Salimi A, Jamaati H, Raoufy MR. The olfactory bulb modulates entorhinal cortex oscillations during spatial working memory. J Physiol Sci 2021; 71:21. [PMID: 34193043 PMCID: PMC10717170 DOI: 10.1186/s12576-021-00805-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2021] [Accepted: 06/16/2021] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Cognitive functions such as working memory require integrated activity among different brain regions. Notably, entorhinal cortex (EC) activity is associated with the successful working memory task. Olfactory bulb (OB) oscillations are known as rhythms that modulate rhythmic activity in widespread brain regions during cognitive tasks. Since the OB is structurally connected to the EC, we hypothesized that OB could modulate EC activity during working memory performance. Herein, we explored OB-EC functional connectivity during spatial working memory performance by simultaneous recording local field potentials when rats performed a Y-maze task. Our results showed that the coherence of delta, theta, and gamma-band oscillations between OB and EC was increased during correct trials compared to wrong trials. Cross-frequency coupling analyses revealed that the modulatory effect of OBs low-frequency phase on EC gamma power and phase was enhanced when animals correctly performed working memory task. The influx of information from OB to EC was also increased at delta and gamma bands within correct trials. These findings indicated that the modulatory influence of OB rhythms on EC oscillations might be necessary for successful working memory performance.
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- Morteza Salimi
- Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
- Institute for Brain Sciences and Cognition, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
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- Electrical Engineering Department, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
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- Chronic Respiratory Diseases Research Center, National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Chronic Respiratory Diseases Research Center, National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.
- Institute for Brain Sciences and Cognition, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.
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Jurkiewicz GJ, Hunt MJ, Żygierewicz J. Addressing Pitfalls in Phase-Amplitude Coupling Analysis with an Extended Modulation Index Toolbox. Neuroinformatics 2021; 19:319-345. [PMID: 32845497 PMCID: PMC8004528 DOI: 10.1007/s12021-020-09487-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Phase-amplitude coupling (PAC) is proposed to play an essential role in coordinating the processing of information on local and global scales. In recent years, the methods able to reveal trustworthy PAC has gained considerable interest. However, the intrinsic features of some signals can lead to the identification of spurious or waveform-dependent coupling. This prompted us to develop an easily accessible tool that could be used to differentiate spurious from authentic PAC. Here, we propose a new tool for more reliable detection of PAC named the Extended Modulation Index (eMI) based on the classical Modulation Index measure of coupling. eMI is suitable both for continuous and epoched data and allows estimation of the statistical significance of each pair of frequencies for phase and for amplitude in the whole comodulogram in the framework of extreme value statistics. We compared eMI with the reference PAC measures-direct PAC estimator (a modification of Mean Vector Length) and standard Modulation Index. All three methods were tested using computer-simulated data and actual local field potential recordings from freely moving rats. All methods exhibited similar properties in terms of sensitivity and specificity of PAC detection. eMI proved to be more selective in the dimension of frequency for phase. One of the novelty's offered by eMI is a heuristic algorithm for classification of PAC as Reliable or Ambiguous. It relies on analysis of the relation between the spectral properties of the signal and the detected coupling. Moreover, eMI generates visualizations that support further evaluation of the coupling properties. It also introduces the concept of the polar phase-histogram to study phase relations of coupled slow and fast oscillations. We discuss the extent to which eMI addresses the known problems of interpreting PAC. The Matlab® toolbox implementing eMI framework, and the two reference PAC estimators is freely available as EEGLAB plugin at https://github.com/GabrielaJurkiewicz/ePAC .
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- Gabriela J Jurkiewicz
- Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, L.Pasteura 5 Street, 02-093, Warsaw, Poland.
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- Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, L.Pasteura 3 Street, 02-093, Warsaw, Poland
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- Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, L.Pasteura 5 Street, 02-093, Warsaw, Poland
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Dellavale D, Velarde OM, Mato G, Urdapilleta E. Complex interplay between spectral harmonicity and different types of cross-frequency couplings in nonlinear oscillators and biologically plausible neural network models. Phys Rev E 2021; 102:062401. [PMID: 33466042 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.102.062401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2020] [Accepted: 11/03/2020] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Cross-frequency coupling (CFC) refers to the nonlinear interaction between oscillations in different frequency bands, and it is a rather ubiquitous phenomenon that has been observed in a variety of physical and biophysical systems. In particular, the coupling between the phase of slow oscillations and the amplitude of fast oscillations, referred as phase-amplitude coupling (PAC), has been intensively explored in the brain activity recorded from animals and humans. However, the interpretation of these CFC patterns remains challenging since harmonic spectral correlations characterizing nonsinusoidal oscillatory dynamics can act as a confounding factor. Specialized signal processing techniques are proposed to address the complex interplay between spectral harmonicity and different types of CFC, not restricted only to PAC. For this, we provide an in-depth characterization of the time locked index (TLI) as a tool aimed to efficiently quantify the harmonic content of noisy time series. It is shown that the proposed TLI measure is more robust and outperforms traditional phase coherence metrics (e.g., phase locking value, pairwise phase consistency) in several aspects. We found that a nonlinear oscillator under the effect of additive noise can produce spurious CFC with low spectral harmonic content. On the other hand, two coupled oscillatory dynamics with independent fundamental frequencies can produce true CFC with high spectral harmonic content via a rectification mechanism or other post-interaction nonlinear processing mechanisms. These results reveal a complex interplay between CFC and harmonicity emerging in the dynamics of biologically plausible neural network models and more generic nonlinear and parametric oscillators. We show that, contrary to what is usually assumed in the literature, the high harmonic content observed in nonsinusoidal oscillatory dynamics is neither a sufficient nor necessary condition to interpret the associated CFC patterns as epiphenomenal. There is mounting evidence suggesting that the combination of multimodal recordings, specialized signal processing techniques, and theoretical modeling is becoming a required step to completely understand CFC patterns observed in oscillatory rich dynamics of physical and biophysical systems.
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- Damián Dellavale
- Centro Atómico Bariloche and Instituto Balseiro, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica (CNEA), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (UNCUYO), Av. E. Bustillo 9500, R8402AGP San Carlos de Bariloche, Río Negro, Argentina
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- Centro Atómico Bariloche and Instituto Balseiro, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica (CNEA), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (UNCUYO), Av. E. Bustillo 9500, R8402AGP San Carlos de Bariloche, Río Negro, Argentina
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- Centro Atómico Bariloche and Instituto Balseiro, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica (CNEA), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (UNCUYO), Av. E. Bustillo 9500, R8402AGP San Carlos de Bariloche, Río Negro, Argentina
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- Centro Atómico Bariloche and Instituto Balseiro, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica (CNEA), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (UNCUYO), Av. E. Bustillo 9500, R8402AGP San Carlos de Bariloche, Río Negro, Argentina
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Ibáñez-Molina AJ, Soriano MF, Iglesias-Parro S. Mutual Information of Multiple Rhythms for EEG Signals. Front Neurosci 2021; 14:574796. [PMID: 33381007 PMCID: PMC7768085 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2020.574796] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2020] [Accepted: 11/20/2020] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Electroencephalograms (EEG) are one of the most commonly used measures to study brain functioning at a macroscopic level. The structure of the EEG time series is composed of many neural rhythms interacting at different spatiotemporal scales. This interaction is often named as cross frequency coupling, and consists of transient couplings between various parameters of different rhythms. This coupling has been hypothesized to be a basic mechanism involved in cognitive functions. There are several methods to measure cross frequency coupling between two rhythms but no single method has been selected as the gold standard. Current methods only serve to explore two rhythms at a time, are computationally demanding, and impose assumptions about the nature of the signal. Here we present a new approach based on Information Theory in which we can characterize the interaction of more than two rhythms in a given EEG time series. It estimates the mutual information of multiple rhythms (MIMR) extracted from the original signal. We tested this measure using simulated and real empirical data. We simulated signals composed of three frequencies and background noise. When the coupling between each frequency component was manipulated, we found a significant variation in the MIMR. In addition, we found that MIMR was sensitive to real EEG time series collected with open vs. closed eyes, and intra-cortical recordings from epileptic and non-epileptic signals registered at different regions of the brain. MIMR is presented as a tool to explore multiple rhythms, easy to compute and without a priori assumptions.
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Gupta K, Grover P, Abel TJ. Current Conceptual Understanding of the Epileptogenic Network From Stereoelectroencephalography-Based Connectivity Inferences. Front Neurol 2020; 11:569699. [PMID: 33324320 PMCID: PMC7724044 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2020.569699] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2020] [Accepted: 10/13/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Localization of the epileptogenic zone (EZ) is crucial in the surgical treatment of focal epilepsy. Recently, EEG studies have revealed that the EZ exhibits abnormal connectivity, which has led investigators to now consider connectivity as a biomarker to localize the EZ. Further, abnormal connectivity of the EZ may provide an explanation for the impact of focal epilepsy on more widespread brain networks involved in typical cognition and development. Stereo-electroencephalography (sEEG) is a well-established method for localizing the EZ that has recently been applied to examine altered brain connectivity in epilepsy. In this manuscript, we review recent computational methods for identifying the EZ using sEEG connectivity. Findings from previous sEEG studies indicate that during interictal periods, the EZ is prone to seizure generation but concurrently receives inward connectivity preventing seizures. At seizure onset, this control is lost, allowing seizure activity to spread from the EZ. Regulatory areas within the EZ may be important for subsequently ending the seizure. After the seizure, the EZ appears to regain its influence on the network, which may be how it is able to regenerate epileptiform activity. However, more research is needed on the dynamic connectivity of the EZ in order to build a biomarker for EZ localization. Such a biomarker would allow for patients undergoing sEEG to have electrode implantation, localization of the EZ, and resection in a fraction of the time currently needed, preventing patients from having to endure long hospital stays and induced seizures.
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- Kanupriya Gupta
- University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, United States.,Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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- Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Carnegie Mellon University/University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States.,Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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- University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, United States.,Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States.,Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Carnegie Mellon University/University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States.,Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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Martínez-Cancino R, Delorme A, Wagner J, Kreutz-Delgado K, Sotero RC, Makeig S. What Can Local Transfer Entropy Tell Us about Phase-Amplitude Coupling in Electrophysiological Signals? ENTROPY 2020; 22:e22111262. [PMID: 33287030 PMCID: PMC7712258 DOI: 10.3390/e22111262] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2020] [Revised: 11/03/2020] [Accepted: 11/04/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Modulation of the amplitude of high-frequency cortical field activity locked to changes in the phase of a slower brain rhythm is known as phase-amplitude coupling (PAC). The study of this phenomenon has been gaining traction in neuroscience because of several reports on its appearance in normal and pathological brain processes in humans as well as across different mammalian species. This has led to the suggestion that PAC may be an intrinsic brain process that facilitates brain inter-area communication across different spatiotemporal scales. Several methods have been proposed to measure the PAC process, but few of these enable detailed study of its time course. It appears that no studies have reported details of PAC dynamics including its possible directional delay characteristic. Here, we study and characterize the use of a novel information theoretic measure that may address this limitation: local transfer entropy. We use both simulated and actual intracranial electroencephalographic data. In both cases, we observe initial indications that local transfer entropy can be used to detect the onset and offset of modulation process periods revealed by mutual information estimated phase-amplitude coupling (MIPAC). We review our results in the context of current theories about PAC in brain electrical activity, and discuss technical issues that must be addressed to see local transfer entropy more widely applied to PAC analysis. The current work sets the foundations for further use of local transfer entropy for estimating PAC process dynamics, and extends and complements our previous work on using local mutual information to compute PAC (MIPAC).
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- Ramón Martínez-Cancino
- Swartz Center for Computational Neurosciences, Institute for Neural Computation, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA; (A.D.); (J.W.); (S.M.)
- Jacobs School of Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA;
- Correspondence:
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- Swartz Center for Computational Neurosciences, Institute for Neural Computation, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA; (A.D.); (J.W.); (S.M.)
- Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition (CerCo), Université Paul Sabatier, 31059 Toulouse, France
- CNRS, UMR 5549, 31052 Toulouse, France
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- Swartz Center for Computational Neurosciences, Institute for Neural Computation, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA; (A.D.); (J.W.); (S.M.)
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- Jacobs School of Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA;
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- Computational Neurophysics Lab, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 4N1, Canada;
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- Swartz Center for Computational Neurosciences, Institute for Neural Computation, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA; (A.D.); (J.W.); (S.M.)
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Hutson TN, Rezaei F, Gautier NM, Indumathy J, Glasscock E, Iasemidis L. Directed Connectivity Analysis of the Neuro-Cardio- and Respiratory Systems Reveals Novel Biomarkers of Susceptibility to SUDEP. IEEE OPEN JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2020; 1:301-311. [PMID: 34223181 PMCID: PMC8249082 DOI: 10.1109/ojemb.2020.3036544] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) is the leading cause of epilepsy-related mortality and its pathophysiological mechanisms remain unknown. Goal: We set to record and analyze for the first time concurrent electroencephalographic (EEG), electrocardiographic (ECG), and unrestrained whole-body plethysmographic (Pleth) signals from control (WT - wild type) and SUDEP-prone mice (KO- knockout Kcna1 animal model). Methods: Employing multivariate autoregressive models (MVAR) we measured all tri-organ effective directional interactions by the generalized partial directed coherence (GPDC) in the frequency domain over time (hours). Results: When compared to the control (WT) animals, the SUDEP-prone (KO) animals exhibited (p < 0.001) reduced afferent and efferent interactions between the heart and the brain over the full frequency spectrum (0-200Hz), enhanced efferent interactions from the brain to the lungs and from the heart to the lungs at high (>90 Hz) frequencies (especially during periods with seizure activity), and decreased feedback from the lungs to the brain at low (<40 Hz) frequencies. Conclusions: These results show that impairment in the afferent and efferent pathways in the holistic neuro-cardio-respiratory network could lead to SUDEP, and effective connectivity measures and their dynamics could serve as novel biomarkers of susceptibility to SUDEP and seizures respectively.
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- T Noah Hutson
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA 71272, USA
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- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA 71272, USA
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- Department of Cellular Biology and Anatomy, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA 71130, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 75275, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA 71272, USA
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Combrisson E, Nest T, Brovelli A, Ince RAA, Soto JLP, Guillot A, Jerbi K. Tensorpac: An open-source Python toolbox for tensor-based phase-amplitude coupling measurement in electrophysiological brain signals. PLoS Comput Biol 2020; 16:e1008302. [PMID: 33119593 PMCID: PMC7654762 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2020] [Revised: 11/10/2020] [Accepted: 09/02/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Despite being the focus of a thriving field of research, the biological mechanisms that underlie information integration in the brain are not yet fully understood. A theory that has gained a lot of traction in recent years suggests that multi-scale integration is regulated by a hierarchy of mutually interacting neural oscillations. In particular, there is accumulating evidence that phase-amplitude coupling (PAC), a specific form of cross-frequency interaction, plays a key role in numerous cognitive processes. Current research in the field is not only hampered by the absence of a gold standard for PAC analysis, but also by the computational costs of running exhaustive computations on large and high-dimensional electrophysiological brain signals. In addition, various signal properties and analyses parameters can lead to spurious PAC. Here, we present Tensorpac, an open-source Python toolbox dedicated to PAC analysis of neurophysiological data. The advantages of Tensorpac include (1) higher computational efficiency thanks to software design that combines tensor computations and parallel computing, (2) the implementation of all most widely used PAC methods in one package, (3) the statistical analysis of PAC measures, and (4) extended PAC visualization capabilities. Tensorpac is distributed under a BSD-3-Clause license and can be launched on any operating system (Linux, OSX and Windows). It can be installed directly via pip or downloaded from Github (https://github.com/EtienneCmb/tensorpac). By making Tensorpac available, we aim to enhance the reproducibility and quality of PAC research, and provide open tools that will accelerate future method development in neuroscience.
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- Etienne Combrisson
- Psychology Department, University of Montréal, QC, Canada
- Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone, UMR 7289, Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, 13385 Marseille, France
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- Psychology Department, University of Montréal, QC, Canada
- Département d’informatique et de recherche opérationnelle, University of Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone, UMR 7289, Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, 13385 Marseille, France
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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- Telecommunications and Control Engineering Department, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Univ. Lyon, UCBL-Lyon 1, Laboratoire Interuniversitaire de Biologie de la Motricité, EA 7424, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Psychology Department, University of Montréal, QC, Canada
- MEG Center, University of Montréal, QC, Canada
- Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, QC, Canada
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Nested oscillations and brain connectivity during sequential stages of feature-based attention. Neuroimage 2020; 223:117354. [PMID: 32916284 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117354] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2020] [Revised: 08/10/2020] [Accepted: 09/05/2020] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Brain mechanisms of visual selective attention involve both local and network-level activity changes at specific oscillatory rhythms, but their interplay remains poorly explored. Here, we investigate anticipatory and reactive effects of feature-based attention using separate fMRI and EEG recordings, while participants attended to one of two spatially overlapping visual features (motion and orientation). We focused on EEG source analysis of local neuronal rhythms and nested oscillations and on graph analysis of connectivity changes in a network of fMRI-defined regions of interest, and characterized a cascade of attentional effects at multiple spatial scales. We discuss how the results may reconcile several theories of selective attention, by showing how β rhythms support anticipatory information routing through increased network efficiency, while reactive α-band desynchronization patterns and increased α-γ coupling in task-specific sensory areas mediate stimulus-evoked processing of task-relevant signals.
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Demuru M, Kalitzin S, Zweiphenning W, van Blooijs D, Van't Klooster M, Van Eijsden P, Leijten F, Zijlmans M. The value of intra-operative electrographic biomarkers for tailoring during epilepsy surgery: from group-level to patient-level analysis. Sci Rep 2020; 10:14654. [PMID: 32887896 PMCID: PMC7474097 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-71359-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2020] [Accepted: 04/23/2020] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Signal analysis biomarkers, in an intra-operative setting, may be complementary tools to guide and tailor the resection in drug-resistant focal epilepsy patients. Effective assessment of biomarker performances are needed to evaluate their clinical usefulness and translation. We defined a realistic ground-truth scenario and compared the effectiveness of different biomarkers alone and combined to localize epileptogenic tissue during surgery. We investigated the performances of univariate, bivariate and multivariate signal biomarkers applied to 1 min inter-ictal intra-operative electrocorticography to discriminate between epileptogenic and non-epileptogenic locations in 47 drug-resistant people with epilepsy (temporal and extra-temporal) who had been seizure-free one year after the operation. The best result using a single biomarker was obtained using the phase-amplitude coupling measure for which the epileptogenic tissue was localized in 17 out of 47 patients. Combining the whole set of biomarkers provided an improvement of the performances: 27 out of 47 patients. Repeating the analysis only on the temporal-lobe resections we detected the epileptogenic tissue in 29 out of 30 combining all the biomarkers. We suggest that the assessment of biomarker performances on a ground-truth scenario is required to have a proper estimate on how biomarkers translate into clinical use. Phase-amplitude coupling seems the best performing single biomarker and combining biomarkers improves localization of epileptogenic tissue. Performance achieved is not adequate as a tool in the operation theater yet, but it can improve the understanding of pathophysiological process.
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- Matteo Demuru
- Stichting Epilepsie Instellingen Nederland (SEIN), Heemstede, The Netherlands.
- Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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- Stichting Epilepsie Instellingen Nederland (SEIN), Heemstede, The Netherlands
- Image Sciences Institute, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Stichting Epilepsie Instellingen Nederland (SEIN), Heemstede, The Netherlands
- Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Davoudi S, Ahmadi A, Daliri MR. Frequency–amplitude coupling: a new approach for decoding of attended features in covert visual attention task. Neural Comput Appl 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s00521-020-05222-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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García AM, Hesse E, Birba A, Adolfi F, Mikulan E, Caro MM, Petroni A, Bekinschtein TA, Del Carmen García M, Silva W, Ciraolo C, Vaucheret E, Sedeño L, Ibáñez A. Time to Face Language: Embodied Mechanisms Underpin the Inception of Face-Related Meanings in the Human Brain. Cereb Cortex 2020; 30:6051-6068. [PMID: 32577713 PMCID: PMC7673477 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhaa178] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2019] [Revised: 04/21/2020] [Accepted: 06/02/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
Abstract
In construing meaning, the brain recruits multimodal (conceptual) systems and embodied (modality-specific) mechanisms. Yet, no consensus exists on how crucial the latter are for the inception of semantic distinctions. To address this issue, we combined electroencephalographic (EEG) and intracranial EEG (iEEG) to examine when nouns denoting facial body parts (FBPs) and nonFBPs are discriminated in face-processing and multimodal networks. First, FBP words increased N170 amplitude (a hallmark of early facial processing). Second, they triggered fast (~100 ms) activity boosts within the face-processing network, alongside later (~275 ms) effects in multimodal circuits. Third, iEEG recordings from face-processing hubs allowed decoding ~80% of items before 200 ms, while classification based on multimodal-network activity only surpassed ~70% after 250 ms. Finally, EEG and iEEG connectivity between both networks proved greater in early (0–200 ms) than later (200–400 ms) windows. Collectively, our findings indicate that, at least for some lexico-semantic categories, meaning is construed through fast reenactments of modality-specific experience.
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- Adolfo M García
- Universidad de San Andrés, B1644BID Buenos Aires, Argentina.,National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), C1425FQB Buenos Aires, Argentina.,Faculty of Education, National University of Cuyo (UNCuyo), MM5502GKA Mendoza, Argentina.,Departamento de Lingüística y Literatura, Facultad de Humanidades, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, 9170020 Santiago, Chile.,Global Brain Health Institute, University of California, CA 94158 San Francisco, USA
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- Universidad de San Andrés, B1644BID Buenos Aires, Argentina.,National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), C1425FQB Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Universidad de San Andrés, B1644BID Buenos Aires, Argentina.,National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), C1425FQB Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), C1425FQB Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences "L. Sacco", University of Milan, 20122 Milan, Italy
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- National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), C1425FQB Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Instituto de Ingeniería Biomédica, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de Buenos Aires, C1063ACV Buenos Aires, Argentina.,Laboratorio de Inteligencia Artificial Aplicada, Departamento de Computación, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, ICC-CONICET, C1063ACV Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Programa de Cirugía de Epilepsia, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, C1181ACH, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Programa de Cirugía de Epilepsia, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, C1181ACH, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Programa de Cirugía de Epilepsia, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, C1181ACH, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Programa de Cirugía de Epilepsia, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, C1181ACH, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), C1425FQB Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Universidad de San Andrés, B1644BID Buenos Aires, Argentina.,National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), C1425FQB Buenos Aires, Argentina.,Global Brain Health Institute, University of California, CA 94158 San Francisco, USA.,Center for Social and Cognitive Neuroscience (CSCN), School of Psychology, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, 8320000, Santiago, Chile.,Universidad Autónoma del Caribe, 080003, Barranquilla, Colombia
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Ozturk M, Telkes I, Jimenez-Shahed J, Viswanathan A, Tarakad A, Kumar S, Sheth SA, Ince NF. Randomized, Double-Blind Assessment of LFP Versus SUA Guidance in STN-DBS Lead Implantation: A Pilot Study. Front Neurosci 2020; 14:611. [PMID: 32655356 PMCID: PMC7325925 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2020.00611] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2020] [Accepted: 05/18/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Background: The efficacy of deep brain stimulation (DBS) therapy in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients is highly dependent on the precise localization of the target structures such as subthalamic nucleus (STN). Most commonly, microelectrode single unit activity (SUA) recordings are performed to refine the target. This process is heavily experience based and can be technically challenging. Local field potentials (LFPs), representing the activity of a population of neurons, can be obtained from the same microelectrodes used for SUA recordings and allow flexible online processing with less computational complexity due to lower sampling rate requirements. Although LFPs have been shown to contain biomarkers capable of predicting patients' symptoms and differentiating various structures, their use in the localization of the STN in the clinical practice is not prevalent. Methods: Here we present, for the first time, a randomized and double-blinded pilot study with intraoperative online LFP processing in which we compare the clinical benefit from SUA- versus LFP-based implantation. Ten PD patients referred for bilateral STN-DBS were randomly implanted using either SUA or LFP guided targeting in each hemisphere. Although both SUA and LFP were recorded for each STN, the electrophysiologist was blinded to one at a time. Three months postoperatively, the patients were evaluated by a neurologist blinded to the intraoperative recordings to assess the performance of each modality. While SUA-based decisions relied on the visual and auditory inspection of the raw traces, LFP-based decisions were given through an online signal processing and machine learning pipeline. Results: We found a dramatic agreement between LFP- and SUA-based localization (16/20 STNs) providing adequate clinical improvement (51.8% decrease in 3-month contralateral motor assessment scores), with LFP-guided implantation resulting in greater average improvement in the discordant cases (74.9%, n = 3 STNs). The selected tracks were characterized by higher activity in beta (11-32 Hz) and high-frequency (200-400 Hz) bands (p < 0.01) of LFPs and stronger non-linear coupling between these bands (p < 0.05). Conclusion: Our pilot study shows equal or better clinical benefit with LFP-based targeting. Given the robustness of the electrode interface and lower computational cost, more centers can utilize LFP as a strategic feedback modality intraoperatively, in conjunction to the SUA-guided targeting.
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- Musa Ozturk
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States
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- Department of Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, United States
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- Department of Neurology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States
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- Department of Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States
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- Department of Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States
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