{"title":"White and Gray Matter Abnormalities in Young Adult Females with Dependent Personality Disorder: A Diffusion-Tensor Imaging and Voxel-Based Morphometry Study.","authors":"Zhixia Cui, Liangliang Meng, Qing Zhang, Jing Lou, Yuan Lin, Yueji Sun","doi":"10.1007/s10548-023-01013-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10548-023-01013-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We applied diffusion-tensor imaging (DTI) including measurements of fractional anisotropy (FA), a parameter of neuronal fiber integrity, mean diffusivity (MD), a parameter of brain tissue integrity, as well as voxel-based morphometry (VBM), a measure of gray and white matter volume, to provide a basis to improve our understanding of the neurobiological basis of dependent personality disorder (DPD). DTI was performed on young girls with DPD (N = 17) and young female healthy controls (N = 17). Tract-based spatial statistics (TBSS) were used to examine microstructural characteristics. Gray matter volume differences between the two groups were investigated using voxel-based morphometry (VBM). The Pearson correlation analysis was utilized to examine the relationship between distinct brain areas of white matter and gray matter and the Dy score on the MMPI. The DPD had significantly higher fractional anisotropy (FA) values than the HC group in the right retrolenticular part of the internal capsule, right external capsule, the corpus callosum, right posterior thalamic radiation (include optic radiation), right cerebral peduncle (p < 0.05), which was strongly positively correlated with the Dy score of MMPI. The volume of gray matter in the right postcentral gyrus and left cuneus in DPD was significantly increased (p < 0.05), which was strongly positively correlated with the Dy score of MMPI (r<sub>1,2</sub>= 0.467,0.353; p<sub>1,2</sub> = 0.005,0.04). Our results provide new insights into the changes in the brain structure in DPD, which suggests that alterations in the brain structure might implicate the pathophysiology of DPD. Possible visual and somatosensory association with motor nerve circuits in DPD.</p>","PeriodicalId":55329,"journal":{"name":"Brain Topography","volume":" ","pages":"102-115"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41220870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Brain TopographyPub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2023-11-23DOI: 10.1007/s10548-023-01016-0
Y Rama Muni Reddy, P Muralidhar, M Srinivas
{"title":"An Effective Hybrid Deep Learning Model for Single-Channel EEG-Based Subject-Independent Drowsiness Recognition.","authors":"Y Rama Muni Reddy, P Muralidhar, M Srinivas","doi":"10.1007/s10548-023-01016-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10548-023-01016-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Nowadays, road accidents pose a severe risk in cases of sleep disorders. We proposed a novel hybrid deep-learning model for detecting drowsiness to address this issue. The proposed model combines the strengths of discrete wavelet long short-term memory (DWLSTM) and convolutional neural networks (CNN) models to classify single-channel electroencephalogram (EEG) signals. Baseline models such as support vector machine (SVM), linear discriminant analysis (LDA), back propagation neural networks (BPNN), CNN, and CNN merged with LSTM (CNN+LSTM) did not fully utilize the time sequence information. Our proposed model incorporates a majority voting between LSTM layers integrated with discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and the CNN model fed with spectrograms as images. The features extracted from sub-bands generated by DWT can provide more informative & discriminating than using the raw EEG signal. Similarly, spectrogram images fed to CNN learn the specific patterns and features with different levels of drowsiness. Furthermore, the proposed model outperformed state-of-the-art deep learning techniques and conventional baseline methods, achieving an average accuracy of 74.62%, 77.76% (using rounding, F1-score maximization approach respectively for generating labels) on 11 subjects for leave-one-out subject method. It achieved high accuracy while maintaining relatively shorter training and testing times, making it more desirable for quicker drowsiness detection. The performance metrics (accuracy, precision, recall, F1-score) are evaluated after 100 randomized tests along with a 95% confidence interval for classification. Additionally, we validated the mean accuracies from five types of wavelet families, including daubechis, symlet, bi-orthogonal, coiflets, and haar, merged with LSTM layers.</p>","PeriodicalId":55329,"journal":{"name":"Brain Topography","volume":" ","pages":"1-18"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138296622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Brain TopographyPub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2023-11-23DOI: 10.1007/s10548-023-01018-y
Yufei Song, Pedro C Gordon, Johanna Metsomaa, Maryam Rostami, Paolo Belardinelli, Ulf Ziemann
{"title":"Evoked EEG Responses to TMS Targeting Regions Outside the Primary Motor Cortex and Their Test-Retest Reliability.","authors":"Yufei Song, Pedro C Gordon, Johanna Metsomaa, Maryam Rostami, Paolo Belardinelli, Ulf Ziemann","doi":"10.1007/s10548-023-01018-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10548-023-01018-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)-evoked electroencephalography (EEG) potentials (TEPs) provide unique insights into cortical excitability and connectivity. However, confounding EEG signals from auditory and somatosensory co-stimulation complicate TEP interpretation. Our optimized sham procedure established with TMS of primary motor cortex (Gordon in JAMA 245:118708, 2021) differentiates direct cortical EEG responses to TMS from those caused by peripheral sensory inputs. Using this approach, this study aimed to investigate TEPs and their test-retest reliability when targeting regions outside the primary motor cortex, specifically the left angular gyrus, supplementary motor area, and medial prefrontal cortex. We conducted three identical TMS-EEG sessions one week apart involving 24 healthy participants. In each session, we targeted the three areas separately using a figure-of-eight TMS coil for active TMS, while a second coil away from the head produced auditory input for sham TMS. Masking noise and electric scalp stimulation were applied in both conditions to achieve matched EEG responses to peripheral sensory inputs. High test-retest reliability was observed in both conditions. However, reliability declined for the 'cleaned' TEPs, resulting from the subtraction of evoked EEG response to the sham TMS from those to the active, particularly for latencies > 100 ms following the TMS pulse. Significant EEG differences were found between active and sham TMS at latencies < 90 ms for all targeted areas, exhibiting distinct spatiotemporal characteristics specific to each target. In conclusion, our optimized sham procedure effectively reveals EEG responses to direct cortical activation by TMS in brain areas outside primary motor cortex. Moreover, we demonstrate the impact of peripheral sensory inputs on test-retest reliability of TMS-EEG responses.</p>","PeriodicalId":55329,"journal":{"name":"Brain Topography","volume":" ","pages":"19-36"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10771591/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138300698","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Brain TopographyPub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2023-09-22DOI: 10.1007/s10548-023-01007-1
Assia Chericoni, Lorenzo Ricci, Georgios Ntolkeras, Roberto Billardello, Scellig S D Stone, Joseph R Madsen, Christos Papadelis, P Ellen Grant, Phillip L Pearl, Fabrizio Taffoni, Alexander Rotenberg, Eleonora Tamilia
{"title":"Sleep Spindle Generation Before and After Epilepsy Surgery: A Source Imaging Study in Children with Drug-Resistant Epilepsy.","authors":"Assia Chericoni, Lorenzo Ricci, Georgios Ntolkeras, Roberto Billardello, Scellig S D Stone, Joseph R Madsen, Christos Papadelis, P Ellen Grant, Phillip L Pearl, Fabrizio Taffoni, Alexander Rotenberg, Eleonora Tamilia","doi":"10.1007/s10548-023-01007-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10548-023-01007-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Literature lacks studies investigating the cortical generation of sleep spindles in drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE) and how they evolve after resection of the epileptogenic zone (EZ). Here, we examined sleep EEGs of children with focal DRE who became seizure-free after focal epilepsy surgery, and aimed to investigate the changes in the spindle generation before and after the surgery using low-density scalp EEG and electrical source imaging (ESI).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We analyzed N2-sleep EEGs from 19 children with DRE before and after surgery. We identified slow (8-12 Hz) and fast spindles (13-16 Hz), computed their spectral features and cortical generators through ESI and computed their distance from the EZ and irritative zone (IZ). We performed two-way ANOVA testing the effect of spindle type (slow vs. fast) and surgical phase (pre-surgery vs. post-surgery) on each feature.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Power, frequency and cortical activation of slow spindles increased after surgery (p < 0.005), while this was not seen for fast spindles. Before surgery, the cortical generators of slow spindles were closer to the EZ (57.3 vs. 66.2 mm, p = 0.007) and IZ (41.3 vs. 55.5 mm, p = 0.02) than fast spindle generators.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Our data indicate alterations in the EEG slow spindles after resective epilepsy surgery. Fast spindle generation on the contrary did not change after surgery. Although the study is limited by its retrospective nature, lack of healthy controls, and reduced cortical spatial sampling, our findings suggest a spatial relationship between the slow spindles and the epileptogenic generators.</p>","PeriodicalId":55329,"journal":{"name":"Brain Topography","volume":" ","pages":"88-101"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41154167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Brain TopographyPub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2023-11-15DOI: 10.1007/s10548-023-01017-z
Daniel J Zhou, Valentina Gumenyuk, Olga Taraschenko, Bartosz T Grobelny, Steven M Stufflebeam, Noam Peled
{"title":"Visualization of the Spatiotemporal Propagation of Interictal Spikes in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy: A MEG Pilot Study.","authors":"Daniel J Zhou, Valentina Gumenyuk, Olga Taraschenko, Bartosz T Grobelny, Steven M Stufflebeam, Noam Peled","doi":"10.1007/s10548-023-01017-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10548-023-01017-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Magnetoencephalography (MEG) is clinically used to localize interictal spikes in discrete brain areas of epilepsy patients through the equivalent current dipole (ECD) method, but does not account for the temporal dynamics of spike activity. Recent studies found that interictal spike propagation beyond the temporal lobe may be associated with worse postsurgical outcomes, but studies using whole-brain data such as in MEG remain limited. In this pilot study, we developed a tool that visualizes the spatiotemporal dynamics of interictal MEG spikes normalized to spike-free sleep activity to assess their onset and propagation patterns in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). We extracted interictal source data containing focal epileptiform activity in awake and asleep states from seven patients whose MEG ECD clusters localized to the temporal lobe and normalized the data against spike-free sleep recordings. We calculated the normalized activity over time per cortical label, confirmed maximal activity at onset, and mapped the activity over a 10 ms interval onto each patient's brain using a custom-built Multi-Modal Visualization Tool. The onset of activity in all patients appeared near the clinically determined epileptogenic zone. By 10 ms, four of the patients had propagated source activity restricted to within the temporal lobe, and three had propagated source activity spread to extratemporal regions. Using this tool, we show that noninvasively identifying the onset and propagation of interictal spike activity in MEG can be achieved, which may help provide further insight into epileptic networks and guide surgical planning and interventions in patients with TLE.</p>","PeriodicalId":55329,"journal":{"name":"Brain Topography","volume":" ","pages":"116-125"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"107592906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Brain TopographyPub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2023-10-25DOI: 10.1007/s10548-023-01015-1
Ping Xu, Song Wang, Yulu Yang, Bishal Guragai, Qiuzhu Zhang, Junjun Zhang, Zhenlan Jin, Ling Li
{"title":"cTBS to Right DLPFC Modulates Physiological Correlates of Conflict Processing: Evidence from a Stroop task.","authors":"Ping Xu, Song Wang, Yulu Yang, Bishal Guragai, Qiuzhu Zhang, Junjun Zhang, Zhenlan Jin, Ling Li","doi":"10.1007/s10548-023-01015-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10548-023-01015-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Conflict typically occurs when goal-directed processing competes with more automatic responses. Though previous studies have highlighted the importance of the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (rDLPFC) in conflict processing, its causal role remains unclear. In the current study, the behavioral experiment, the continuous theta burst stimulation (cTBS), and the electroencephalography (EEG) were combined to explore the effects of behavioral performance and physiological correlates during conflict processing, after the cTBS over the rDLPFC and vertex (the control condition). Twenty-six healthy participants performed the Stroop task which included congruent and incongruent trials. Although the cTBS did not induce significant changes in the behavioral performance, the cTBS over the rDLPFC reduced the Stroop effects of conflict monitoring-related frontal-central N2 component and theta oscillation, and conflict resolution-related parieto-occipital alpha oscillation, compared to the vertex stimulation. Moreover, a significant hemispheric difference in alpha oscillation was exploratively observed after the cTBS over the rDLPFC. Interestingly, we found the rDLPFC stimulation resulted in significantly reduced Stroop effects of theta and gamma oscillation after response, which may reflect the adjustment of cognitive control for the next trial. In conclusion, our study not only demonstrated the critical involvement of the rDLPFC in conflict monitoring, conflict resolution processing, and conflict adaptation but also revealed the electrophysiological mechanism of conflict processing mediated by the rDLPFC.</p>","PeriodicalId":55329,"journal":{"name":"Brain Topography","volume":" ","pages":"37-51"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50163857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Changes in Mental Health and EEG Biomarkers of Undergraduates Under Different Patterns of Mindfulness.","authors":"Miaoling Luo, Quan Gan, Ziyang Huang, Yunxiong Jiang, Kebin Li, Minxiang Wu, Dongxiao Yang, Heng Shao, Yanmei Chen, Yu Fu, Zhuangfei Chen","doi":"10.1007/s10548-023-01026-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10548-023-01026-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The effects of short-term mindfulness are associated with the different patterns (autonomic, audio guided, or experienced and certified mindfulness instructor guided mindfulness). However, robust evidence for reported the impacts of different patterns of mindfulness on mental health and EEG biomarkers of undergraduates is currently lacking. Therefore, we aimed to test the hypotheses that mindfulness training for undergraduates would improve mental health, and increase alpha power over frontal region and theta power over midline region at the single electrode level. We also describe the distinction among frequency bands patterns in different sites of frontal and midline regions. 70 participants were enrolled and assigned to either 5-day mindfulness or a waiting list group. Subjective questionnaires measured mental health and other psychological indicators, and brain activity was recorded during various EEG tasks before and after the intervention. The 5-day mindfulness training improved trait mindfulness, especially observing (p = 0.001, d = 0.96) and nonreactivity (p = 0.03, d = 0.56), sleep quality (p = 0.001, d = 0.91), and social support (p = 0.001, d = 0.95) while not in affect. Meanwhile, the expected increase in the alpha power of frontal sites (p < 0.017, d > 0.84) at the single electrode level was confirmed by the current data rather than the theta. Interestingly, the alteration of low-beta power over the single electrode of the midline (p < 0.05, d > 0.71) was difference between groups. Short-term mindfulness improves practitioners' mental health, and the potentially electrophysiological biomarkers of mindfulness on neuron oscillations were alpha activity over frontal sites and low-beta activity over midline sites.</p>","PeriodicalId":55329,"journal":{"name":"Brain Topography","volume":" ","pages":"75-87"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10771601/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139032903","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Brain TopographyPub Date : 2023-12-29DOI: 10.1007/s10548-023-01024-0
Dominika Drążyk, Karol Przewrocki, Urszula Górska-Klimowska, Marek Binder
{"title":"Distinct Spectral Profiles of Awake Resting EEG in Disorders of Consciousness: The Role of Frequency and Topography of Oscillations","authors":"Dominika Drążyk, Karol Przewrocki, Urszula Górska-Klimowska, Marek Binder","doi":"10.1007/s10548-023-01024-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10548-023-01024-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The prolonged disorders of consciousness (PDOC) pose a challenge for an accurate clinical diagnosis, mainly due to patients’ scarce or ambiguous behavioral responsiveness. Measurement of brain activity can support better diagnosis, independent of motor restrictions. Methods based on spectral analysis of resting-state EEG appear as a promising path, revealing specific changes within the internal brain dynamics in PDOC patients. In this study we used a robust method of resting-state EEG power spectrum parameter extraction to identify distinct spectral properties for different types of PDOC. Sixty patients and 37 healthy volunteers participated in this study. Patient group consisted of 22 unresponsive wakefulness patients, 25 minimally conscious patients and 13 patients emerging from the minimally conscious state. Ten minutes of resting EEG was acquired during wakefulness and transformed into individual power spectra. For each patient, using the spectral decomposition algorithm, we extracted maximum peak frequency within 1–14 Hz range in the centro-parietal region, and the antero-posterior (AP) gradient of the maximal frequency peak. All patients were behaviorally diagnosed using coma recovery scale-revised (CRS-R). The maximal peak frequency in the 1–14 Hz range successfully predicted both neurobehavioral capacity of patients as indicated by CRS-R total score and PDOC diagnosis. Additionally, in patients in whom only one peak within the 1–14 Hz range was observed, the AP gradient significantly contributed to the accuracy of prediction. We have identified three distinct spectral profiles of patients, likely representing separate neurophysiological modes of thalamocortical functioning. Etiology did not have significant influence on the obtained results.</p>","PeriodicalId":55329,"journal":{"name":"Brain Topography","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139069476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Brain TopographyPub Date : 2023-12-19DOI: 10.1007/s10548-023-01025-z
Shuai Ye, Anto Bagić, Bin He
{"title":"Disentanglement of Resting State Brain Networks for Localizing Epileptogenic Zone in Focal Epilepsy","authors":"Shuai Ye, Anto Bagić, Bin He","doi":"10.1007/s10548-023-01025-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10548-023-01025-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The objective of this study is to extract pathological brain networks from interictal period of E/MEG recordings to localize epileptic foci for presurgical evaluation. We proposed here a resting state E/MEG analysis framework, to disentangle brain functional networks represented by neural oscillations. By using an Embedded Hidden Markov Model, we constructed a state space for resting state recordings consisting of brain states with different spatiotemporal patterns. Functional connectivity analysis along with graph theory was applied on the extracted brain states to quantify the network features of the extracted brain states, based on which the source location of pathological states is determined. The method is evaluated by computer simulations and our simulation results revealed the proposed framework can extract brain states with high accuracy regarding both spatial and temporal profiles. We further evaluated the framework as compared with intracranial EEG defined seizure onset zone in 10 patients with drug-resistant focal epilepsy who underwent MEG recordings and were seizure free after surgical resection. The real patient data analysis showed very good localization results using the extracted pathological brain states in 6/10 patients, with localization error of about 15 mm as compared to the seizure onset zone. We show that the pathological brain networks can be disentangled from the resting-state electromagnetic recording and could be identified based on the connectivity features. The framework can serve as a useful tool in extracting brain functional networks from noninvasive resting state electromagnetic recordings, and promises to offer an alternative to aid presurgical evaluation guiding intracranial EEG electrodes implantation.</p>","PeriodicalId":55329,"journal":{"name":"Brain Topography","volume":"76 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138742974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Brain TopographyPub Date : 2023-12-11DOI: 10.1007/s10548-023-01021-3
Özge Akgül, Ezgi Fide, Fatih Özel, Köksal Alptekin, Emre Bora, Berna Binnur Akdede, Görsev Yener
{"title":"Reduced Reward Processing in Schizophrenia: A Comprehensive EEG Event-Related Oscillation Study","authors":"Özge Akgül, Ezgi Fide, Fatih Özel, Köksal Alptekin, Emre Bora, Berna Binnur Akdede, Görsev Yener","doi":"10.1007/s10548-023-01021-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10548-023-01021-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p>It is well known that abnormal reward processing is a characteristic feature of various psychopathologies including schizophrenia (SZ). Reduced reward anticipation has been suggested as a core symptom of SZ. The present study aims to evaluate the event-related oscillations (EROs) delta, theta, alpha, beta, and gamma in patients with SZ during the Monetary Incentive Delay (MID) task, which elicits the neural activity of reward processing. Twenty-one patients with SZ and twenty-two demographically matched healthy controls were included in the study. EROs were compared between groups and correlation analyses were conducted to determine a possible relationship between clinical scores and ERO values. Compared with healthy controls, the SZ group had reduced (1) delta and theta amplitudes in the reward condition (2) total beta and non-incentive cue-related beta amplitudes, and (3) incentive cue-related frontal gamma amplitudes. These reductions can be interpreted as impaired dopaminergic neurotransmission and disrupted cognitive functioning in the reward processing of SZ. In contrast, SZ patients showed higher incentive cue-related theta and occipital gamma amplitudes compared to controls. These increments may reflect negative symptoms in SZ. Moreover, theta amplitudes showed a negative correlation with Calgary Depression Scale for Schizophrenia scores and a positive correlation with attentional impulsivity. This is the first study showing the impairments of SZ patients in EROs from delta to gamma frequency bands compared with healthy controls during reward anticipation. Being the first comprehensive study, our results can be interpreted as providing evidence for disrupted brain dynamics in the reward processing of SZ studied by EROs. It may become possible to help patients’ wellness by improving our understanding of reward processing in schizophrenia and developing innovative rehabilitation treatments based on these findings.</p>","PeriodicalId":55329,"journal":{"name":"Brain Topography","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138566446","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}