Amplitude coupling is altered in delirium of various etiologies: Results from a retrospective multi-center case-control EEG study

IF 3.7 3区医学 Q1 CLINICAL NEUROLOGY

Clinical Neurophysiology Pub Date : 2025-03-11 DOI:10.1016/j.clinph.2025.02.266

Robert Fleischmann , Annerose Mengel , Cornelis J. Stam , Sophie Leroy , Pauline Schneider , Arjen J.C. Slooter , Johannes Ehler , Edwin van Dellen

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Abstract

Objective

Delirium manifests with comparable clinical presentations, regardless of its heterogeneous etiology. This suggests a final common pathway such as decreased electroencephalography (EEG) phase coupling. This study investigates if amplitude coupling, another mode of neural communication, is altered in delirium due to different etiologies.

Methods

We analyzed EEGs of patients from three sites with either postoperative, poststroke or medical delirium and non-delirious control patients. Amplitude envelope correlation corrected for spatial leakage (AECc) was calculated and Mann-Whitney U-tests were used to compare patients with or without delirium. AECc differences among delirium types were compared using Kruskal-Wallis tests.

Results

AECc was significantly increased in delirious (n = 173, age 79.2±9.3 years, 46 % female) as compared to non-delirious (n = 204, age 72.9±13.1 years, 45 % female) patients in the delta (median, effect size of difference: 0.16 vs. 0.12, r = 0.28, p < 0.01) and beta band (0.11 vs. 0.09, r = 0.14, p = 0.04). These changes did not differ among delirium types (p > 0.05).

Conclusions

We found modestly higher delta and beta band AECc in delirium compared to non-delirious control patients, regardless of the presumed etiology.

Significance

This study provides evidence for altered amplitude coupling as mode of impaired neuronal communication in delirium, the role of which should be investigated in future studies of neural network pathophysiology.

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Clinical Neurophysiology 医学-临床神经学

CiteScore

8.70

自引率

6.40%

发文量

932

审稿时长

59 days

期刊介绍： As of January 1999, The journal Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, and its two sections Electromyography and Motor Control and Evoked Potentials have amalgamated to become this journal - Clinical Neurophysiology. Clinical Neurophysiology is the official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology, the Brazilian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology, the Czech Society of Clinical Neurophysiology, the Italian Clinical Neurophysiology Society and the International Society of Intraoperative Neurophysiology.The journal is dedicated to fostering research and disseminating information on all aspects of both normal and abnormal functioning of the nervous system. The key aim of the publication is to disseminate scholarly reports on the pathophysiology underlying diseases of the central and peripheral nervous system of human patients. Clinical trials that use neurophysiological measures to document change are encouraged, as are manuscripts reporting data on integrated neuroimaging of central nervous function including, but not limited to, functional MRI, MEG, EEG, PET and other neuroimaging modalities.