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Balconi M, Rovelli K, Angioletti L, Allegretta RA. Working Memory Workload When Making Complex Decisions: A Behavioral and EEG Study. SENSORS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2024; 24:5754. [PMID: 39275665 PMCID: PMC11397910 DOI: 10.3390/s24175754] [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: 07/30/2024] [Revised: 08/27/2024] [Accepted: 09/03/2024] [Indexed: 09/16/2024]
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Working memory (WM) is crucial for adequate performance execution in effective decision-making, enabling individuals to identify patterns and link information by focusing on current and past situations. This work explored behavioral and electrophysiological (EEG) WM correlates through a novel decision-making task, based on real-life situations, assessing WM workload related to contextual variables. A total of 24 participants performed three task phases (encoding, retrieval, and metacognition) while their EEG activity (delta, theta, alpha, and beta frequency bands) was continuously recorded. From the three phases, three main behavioral indices were computed: Efficiency in complex Decision-making, Tolerance of Decisional Complexity, and Metacognition of Difficulties. Results showed the central role of alpha and beta bands during encoding and retrieval: decreased alpha/beta activity in temporoparietal areas during encoding might indicate activation of regions related to verbal WM performance and a load-related effect, while decreased alpha activity in the same areas and increased beta activity over posterior areas during retrieval might indicate, respectively, active information processing and focused attention. Evidence from correlational analysis between the three indices and EEG bands are also discussed. Integration of behavioral and metacognitive data gathered through this novel task and their interrelation with EEG correlates during task performance proves useful to assess WM workload during complex managerial decision-making.
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- Michela Balconi
- International research center for Cognitive Applied Neuroscience (IrcCAN), Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 20123 Milan, Italy
- Research Unit in Affective and Social Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 20123 Milan, Italy
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- International research center for Cognitive Applied Neuroscience (IrcCAN), Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 20123 Milan, Italy
- Research Unit in Affective and Social Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 20123 Milan, Italy
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- International research center for Cognitive Applied Neuroscience (IrcCAN), Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 20123 Milan, Italy
- Research Unit in Affective and Social Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 20123 Milan, Italy
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- International research center for Cognitive Applied Neuroscience (IrcCAN), Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 20123 Milan, Italy
- Research Unit in Affective and Social Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 20123 Milan, Italy
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Zhou Y, Yang B, Wang C. Multiband task related components enhance rapid cognition decoding for both small and similar objects. Neural Netw 2024; 175:106313. [PMID: 38640695 DOI: 10.1016/j.neunet.2024.106313] [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: 07/19/2023] [Revised: 02/19/2024] [Accepted: 04/09/2024] [Indexed: 04/21/2024]
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The cortically-coupled target recognition system based on rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) has a wide range of applications in brain computer interface (BCI) fields such as medical and military. However, in the complex natural environment backgrounds, the identification of event-related potentials (ERP) of both small and similar objects that are quickly presented is a research challenge. Therefore, we designed corresponding experimental paradigms and proposed a multi-band task related components matching (MTRCM) method to improve the rapid cognitive decoding of both small and similar objects. We compared the areas under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) between MTRCM and other 9 methods under different numbers of training sample using RSVP-ERP data from 50 subjects. The results showed that MTRCM maintained an overall superiority and achieved the highest average AUC (0.6562 ± 0.0091). We also optimized the frequency band and the time parameters of the method. The verification on public data sets further showed the necessity of designing MTRCM method. The MTRCM method provides a new approach for neural decoding of both small and similar RSVP objects, which is conducive to promote the further development of RSVP-BCI.
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- Yusong Zhou
- School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
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- School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China.
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- Beijing Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing 100850, China
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Périard IAC, Dierolf AM, Lutz A, Vögele C, Voderholzer U, Koch S, Bach M, Asenstorfer C, Michaux G, Mertens VC, Schulz A. Frontal alpha asymmetry is associated with chronic stress and depression, but not with somatoform disorders. Int J Psychophysiol 2024; 200:112342. [PMID: 38614440 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2024.112342] [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: 01/18/2024] [Revised: 04/04/2024] [Accepted: 04/07/2024] [Indexed: 04/15/2024]
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Cardinal characteristics of somatoform disorders (SFDs) are worry of illness, and impaired affective processing. We used relative frontal alpha asymmetry (FAA), a method to measure functional lateralization of affective processing, to investigate psychobiological correlates of SFDs. With alpha activity being inversely related to cortical network activity, relative FAA refers to alpha activity on the right frontal lobe minus alpha activity on the left frontal lobe. Less relative left frontal activity, reflected by negative FAA scores, is associated with lower positive and greater negative affectivity, such as observed in depression. Due to its negative affective component (illness anxiety), we expected to find less relative left frontal activity pattern in SFDs, and positive associations with self-reported chronic stress and depression symptoms. We recorded resting-state EEG activity with 64 electrodes, placed in a 10-10 system in 26 patients with a primary SFD, 23 patients with a major depressive disorder and 25 healthy control participants. The groups did not differ in FAA. Nevertheless, across all participants, less relative left frontal activity was associated with chronic stress and depression symptoms. We concluded that FAA may not serve as an indicator of SFDs. As the relationship of FAA and depressive symptoms was fully mediated by chronic stress, future studies have to clarify whether the association between FAA and chronic stress may represent a shared underlying factor for the manifestation of mental health complaints, such as depression.
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- Isabelle Anne-Claire Périard
- Research Group 'Brain-Body Interaction', Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences, University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg; Institute of Medical Psychology, Charité University Medical Center Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Department of Developmental and Cognitive Psychology, University of Regensburg. Regensburg, Germany
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- Research Group 'Brain-Body Interaction', Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences, University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
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- Research Group 'Brain-Body Interaction', Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences, University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
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- Research Group 'Brain-Body Interaction', Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences, University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
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- Schoen Clinic Roseneck, Prien am Chiemsee, Germany; Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Schoen Clinic Roseneck, Prien am Chiemsee, Germany
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- Practice for Psychosomatics and Stress Medicine, Vienna, Austria
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- Research Group 'Brain-Body Interaction', Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences, University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg; GesondheetsZentrum, Fondation Hôpitaux Robert Schuman, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
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- Research Group 'Brain-Body Interaction', Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences, University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
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- Research Group 'Brain-Body Interaction', Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences, University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg; Institute for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Trier University, Trier, Germany.
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Levy E, Herzog D, Ryder CH, Grunstein R, Gidron Y. Indirect Exposure to Atrocities and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms among Aid Workers: Hemispheric Lateralization Matters. J Clin Med 2024; 13:2373. [PMID: 38673646 PMCID: PMC11051319 DOI: 10.3390/jcm13082373] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2024] [Revised: 04/13/2024] [Accepted: 04/17/2024] [Indexed: 04/28/2024] Open
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Background: Humanitarian aid workers (HAWs) are indirectly exposed to atrocities relating to people of concern (POC). This may result in a risk of secondary traumatization demonstrated by post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSSs). Previous studies have demonstrated that hemispheric lateralization (HL) moderates the relationship between threat exposure and post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSSs). Aims: We hypothesized that indirect exposure to atrocities (IETA) would be positively correlated with PTSSs among HAWs with right and not left HL. Method: Fifty-four HAWs from several countries that provided humanitarian support in Greece and Colombia participated in this correlational and cross-sectional observation study. They completed scales relating to IETA, PTSSs were assessed using a brief, valid scale, and HL was measured. Results: IETA was positively and significantly related to PTSSs (r = 0.39, p < 0.005). Considering HL, IETA was unrelated to PTSSs among people with right HL (r = 0.29, p = 0.14), while IETA was related to PTSSs among people with left HL (r = 0.52, p = 0.008). Right HL emerged as a protective factor in the relationship between IETA and PTSS. Conclusions: An assessment of dominant HL can serve as one consideration among others when deploying HAWs in specific locations and roles, vis à vis IETA. Moreover, those found to have a higher risk for PTSSs based on their HL could be monitored more closely to prevent adverse reactions to IETA.
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- Einav Levy
- Department of Social Work, Tel Hai College, Qiryat Shemona 1220800, Israel;
- Research Center for Innovation in Social Work, Tel Hai College, Qiryat Shemona 1220800, Israel
- The Israeli School of Humanitarian Action, Tel Aviv 4632825, Israel
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- Brain & Behavior Research Institute, Western Galilee Academic College, Akko 2412101, Israel;
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- Department of Social Work, Tel Hai College, Qiryat Shemona 1220800, Israel;
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- Department of Nursing, Haifa University, Haifa 3498838, Israel;
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Medina Pizaño MY, Loera Arias MDJ, Montes de Oca Luna R, Saucedo Cárdenas O, Ventura Juárez J, Muñoz Ortega MH. Neuroimmunomodulation of adrenoblockers during liver cirrhosis: modulation of hepatic stellate cell activity. Ann Med 2023; 55:543-557. [PMID: 36826975 PMCID: PMC9970206 DOI: 10.1080/07853890.2022.2164047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/25/2023] Open
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The sympathetic nervous system and the immune system are responsible for producing neurotransmitters and cytokines that interact by binding to receptors; due to this, there is communication between these systems. Liver immune cells and nerve fibres are systematically distributed in the liver, and the partial overlap of both patterns may favour interactions between certain elements. Dendritic cells are attached to fibroblasts, and nerve fibres are connected via the dendritic cell-fibroblast complex. Receptors for most neuroactive substances, such as catecholamines, have been discovered on dendritic cells. The sympathetic nervous system regulates hepatic fibrosis through sympathetic fibres and adrenaline from the adrenal glands through the blood. When there is liver damage, the sympathetic nervous system is activated locally and systemically through proinflammatory cytokines that induce the production of epinephrine and norepinephrine. These neurotransmitters bind to cells through α-adrenergic receptors, triggering a cellular response that secretes inflammatory factors that stimulate and activate hepatic stellate cells. Hepatic stellate cells are key in the fibrotic process. They initiate the overproduction of extracellular matrix components in an active state that progresses from fibrosis to liver cirrhosis. It has also been shown that they can be directly activated by norepinephrine. Alpha and beta adrenoblockers, such as carvedilol, prazosin, and doxazosin, have recently been used to reverse CCl4-induced liver cirrhosis in rodent and murine models.KEY MESSAGESNeurotransmitters from the sympathetic nervous system activate and increase the proliferation of hepatic stellate cells.Hepatic fibrosis and cirrhosis treatment might depend on neurotransmitter and hepatic nervous system regulation.Strategies to reduce hepatic stellate cell activation and fibrosis are based on experimentation with α-adrenoblockers.
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- Histology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Autonomous University of Nuevo León, Monterrey, México
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- Department of Morphology, Autonomous University of Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, México
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Staffa M, D'Errico L, Sansalone S, Alimardani M. Classifying human emotions in HRI: applying global optimization model to EEG brain signals. Front Neurorobot 2023; 17:1191127. [PMID: 37881515 PMCID: PMC10595007 DOI: 10.3389/fnbot.2023.1191127] [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: 03/21/2023] [Accepted: 08/21/2023] [Indexed: 10/27/2023] Open
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Significant efforts have been made in the past decade to humanize both the form and function of social robots to increase their acceptance among humans. To this end, social robots have recently been combined with brain-computer interface (BCI) systems in an attempt to give them an understanding of human mental states, particularly emotions. However, emotion recognition using BCIs poses several challenges, such as subjectivity of emotions, contextual dependency, and a lack of reliable neuro-metrics for real-time processing of emotions. Furthermore, the use of BCI systems introduces its own set of limitations, such as the bias-variance trade-off, dimensionality, and noise in the input data space. In this study, we sought to address some of these challenges by detecting human emotional states from EEG brain activity during human-robot interaction (HRI). EEG signals were collected from 10 participants who interacted with a Pepper robot that demonstrated either a positive or negative personality. Using emotion valence and arousal measures derived from frontal brain asymmetry (FBA), several machine learning models were trained to classify human's mental states in response to the robot personality. To improve classification accuracy, all proposed classifiers were subjected to a Global Optimization Model (GOM) based on feature selection and hyperparameter optimization techniques. The results showed that it is possible to classify a user's emotional responses to the robot's behavior from the EEG signals with an accuracy of up to 92%. The outcome of the current study contributes to the first level of the Theory of Mind (ToM) in Human-Robot Interaction, enabling robots to comprehend users' emotional responses and attribute mental states to them. Our work advances the field of social and assistive robotics by paving the way for the development of more empathetic and responsive HRI in the future.
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- Mariacarla Staffa
- Department of Science and Technology, University of Naples Parthenope, Naples, Italy
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
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- Department of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence, Tilburg University, Tilburg, Netherlands
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Wang GY, Crook-Rumsey M, Sumich A, Dulson D, Gao TT, Premkumar P. The relationships between expressed emotion, cortisol, and EEG alpha asymmetry. Physiol Behav 2023:114276. [PMID: 37364671 DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2023.114276] [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: 04/16/2023] [Revised: 05/29/2023] [Accepted: 06/20/2023] [Indexed: 06/28/2023]
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Families can express high criticism, hostility and emotional over-involvement towards a person with or at risk of mental health problems. Perceiving such high expressed emotion (EE) can be a major psychological stressor for individuals, especially those at risk of mental health problems. To reveal the biological mechanisms underlying the effect of EE on health, this study investigated physiological response (salivary cortisol, frontal alpha asymmetry (FAA)) to verbal criticism and their relationship to anxiety and perceived EE. Using a repeated-measures design, healthy participants attended three testing sessions on non-consecutive days. On each day, participants listened to one of three types of auditory stimuli, namely criticism, neutral or praise, and Electroencephalography (EEG) and salivary cortisol were measured. Results showed a reduction in cortisol following criticism but there was no significant change in FAA. Post-criticism cortisol concentration negatively correlated with perceived EE after controlling for baseline mood. Our findings suggest that salivary cortisol change responds to criticism in non-clinical populations might be largely driven by individual differences in the perception of criticism (e.g., arousal and relevance). Criticisms expressed by audio comments may not be explicitly perceived as an acute emotional stressor, and thus, physiological change responds to criticisms could be minimum.
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- Grace Y Wang
- School of Psychology and Wellbeing, University of Southern Queensland, Australia; Centre for Health Research, University of Southern Queensland, University of Southern Queensland, Australia.
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- School of Biomedical, Nutritional and Sport Sciences, Newcastle University, UK; Sports Performance Research Institute New Zealand (SPRINZ), Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
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- Morton Bay Regional Council, Queensland, Australia
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Bozsányi S, Czurkó N, Becske M, Kasek R, Lázár BK, Boostani M, Meznerics FA, Farkas K, Varga NN, Gulyás L, Bánvölgyi A, Fehér BÁ, Fejes E, Lőrincz K, Kovács A, Gergely H, Takács S, Holló P, Kiss N, Wikonkál N, Lázár I. Assessment of Frontal Hemispherical Lateralization in Plaque Psoriasis and Atopic Dermatitis. J Clin Med 2023; 12:4194. [PMID: 37445231 DOI: 10.3390/jcm12134194] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2023] [Revised: 06/09/2023] [Accepted: 06/19/2023] [Indexed: 07/15/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Each brain hemisphere plays a specialized role in cognitive and behavioral processes, known as hemispheric lateralization. In chronic skin diseases, such as plaque psoriasis (Pso) and atopic dermatitis (AD), the degree of lateralization between the frontal hemispheres may provide insight into specific connections between skin diseases and the psyche. This study aims to analyze the hemispherical lateralization, neurovegetative responses, and psychometric characteristics of patients with Pso and AD. METHODS The study included 46 patients with Pso, 56 patients with AD, and 29 healthy control (Ctrl) subjects. The participants underwent frontal electroencephalogram (EEG) measurement, heart rate variability (HRV) assessment, and psychological tests. Statistical analyses were performed using ANOVA, with Bonferroni correction applied for multiple comparisons. RESULTS This study shows a significant right-lateralized prefrontal activity in both AD patients (p < 0.001) and Pso patients (p = 0.045) compared with Ctrl, with no significant difference between the AD and Pso groups (p = 0.633). AD patients with right-hemispheric dominant prefrontal activation exhibited increased inhibition and avoidance markers, while Pso patients showed elevated sympathetic nervous system activity. CONCLUSION Psychophysiological and psychometric data suggest a shared prevalence of right-hemispheric dominance in both AD and Pso patient groups. However, the findings indicate distinct psychodermatological mechanisms in AD and Pso.
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- Szabolcs Bozsányi
- Department of Dermatology, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA
- Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Dermatooncology, Semmelweis University, 1085 Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Dermatooncology, Semmelweis University, 1085 Budapest, Hungary
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- Institute of Behavioral Sciences, Semmelweis University, 1089 Budapest, Hungary
- Selye János Doctoral College for Advanced Studies, 1085 Budapest, Hungary
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- Institute of Behavioral Sciences, Semmelweis University, 1089 Budapest, Hungary
- Selye János Doctoral College for Advanced Studies, 1085 Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Dermatooncology, Semmelweis University, 1085 Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Dermatooncology, Semmelweis University, 1085 Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Dermatooncology, Semmelweis University, 1085 Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Dermatooncology, Semmelweis University, 1085 Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Dermatooncology, Semmelweis University, 1085 Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Dermatooncology, Semmelweis University, 1085 Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Dermatooncology, Semmelweis University, 1085 Budapest, Hungary
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- Institute of Behavioral Sciences, Semmelweis University, 1089 Budapest, Hungary
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- Selye János Doctoral College for Advanced Studies, 1085 Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Dermatooncology, Semmelweis University, 1085 Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Dermatooncology, Semmelweis University, 1085 Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Dermatooncology, Semmelweis University, 1085 Budapest, Hungary
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- Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary, 1042 Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Dermatooncology, Semmelweis University, 1085 Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Dermatooncology, Semmelweis University, 1085 Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Dermatooncology, Semmelweis University, 1085 Budapest, Hungary
- Central Hospital of Northern Pest-Military Hospital, 1139 Budapest, Hungary
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- Institute of Behavioral Sciences, Semmelweis University, 1089 Budapest, Hungary
- Institute of Social and Communication Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary, 1091 Budapest, Hungary
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Wang GY, Simkute D, Griskova-Bulanova I. Neurobiological Link between Stress and Gaming: A Scoping Review. J Clin Med 2023; 12:jcm12093113. [PMID: 37176554 PMCID: PMC10179187 DOI: 10.3390/jcm12093113] [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: 02/06/2023] [Revised: 04/14/2023] [Accepted: 04/19/2023] [Indexed: 05/15/2023] Open
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Research on video gaming has been challenged by the way to properly measure individual play experience as a continuum, and current research primarily focuses on persons with gaming disorder based on the diagnostic criteria established in relation to substance use and gambling. To better capture the complexity and dynamic experience of gaming, an understanding of brain functional changes related to gaming is necessary. Based on the proinflammatory hypothesis of addiction, this scoping review was aiming to (1) survey the literature published since 2012 to determine how data pertinent to the measurement of stress response had been reported in video gaming studies and (2) clarify the link between gaming and stress response. Eleven studies were included in this review, and the results suggest that gaming could stimulate a stress-like physiological response, and the direction of this response is influenced by an individual's biological profile, history of gaming, and gaming content. Our findings highlight the need for future investigation of the stress-behaviour correlation in the context of gaming, and this will assist in understanding the biological mechanisms underlying game addiction and inform the potential targets for addiction-related proinflammatory research.
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- Grace Y Wang
- School of Psychology and Wellbeing, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD 4350, Australia
- Centre of Health Research, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD 4350, Australia
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- Institute of Biosciences, Life Sciences Centre, Vilnius University, 10257 Vilnius, Lithuania
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- Institute of Biosciences, Life Sciences Centre, Vilnius University, 10257 Vilnius, Lithuania
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Chatterjee D, Gavas R, Saha SK. Detection of mental stress using novel spatio-temporal distribution of brain activations. Biomed Signal Process Control 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bspc.2022.104526] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Sensory Processing and Autistic Traits: Mediation Effect of Frontal Alpha Asymmetry. Occup Ther Int 2023; 2023:5065120. [PMID: 36721758 PMCID: PMC9884162 DOI: 10.1155/2023/5065120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2022] [Revised: 12/30/2022] [Accepted: 01/11/2023] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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A sensory processing approach can be used to intervene with behaviours in individuals with autistic symptoms. However, neural mechanisms linking sensory processing patterns and autistic features are less understood. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether frontal alpha asymmetry could mediate the relationship between atypical sensory processing and autistic traits. Seventy-three neurotypical young adults were included in this study. Resting-state brain activity was recorded using electroencephalography. After the recording, participants completed the Adolescent/Adult Sensory Profile and the Autism-Spectrum Quotient. Frontal alpha asymmetry was calculated by subtracting left frontal alpha power from right frontal alpha power. Correlation analysis was performed to find which sensory processing patterns were related to frontal alpha asymmetry and autistic traits. Mediation analysis was then conducted with sensory avoiding patterns as an independent variable, autistic traits as a dependent variable, and frontal alpha asymmetry as a mediator. Interrelations between higher sensation avoiding patterns, greater right-sided cortical activity, and increased autistic traits were found. The sensation avoiding patterns affected autistic traits directly and indirectly through right-sided cortical activity. Findings of the current study demonstrate a mediating role of frontal alpha asymmetry in the relationship between sensation avoiding patterns and autistic traits in neurotypical adults. This study suggests that sensation avoiding patterns and withdrawal-related emotions, which are associated with right-sided cortical activity, need to be considered to improve autism symptoms.
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Rejer I, Wacewicz D, Schab M, Romanowski B, Łukasiewicz K, Maciaszczyk M. Stressors Length and the Habituation Effect-An EEG Study. SENSORS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2022; 22:6862. [PMID: 36146211 PMCID: PMC9505843 DOI: 10.3390/s22186862] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2022] [Revised: 09/02/2022] [Accepted: 09/07/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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The research described in this paper aimed to determine whether people respond differently to short and long stimuli and whether stress stimuli repeated over time evoke a habituation effect. To meet this goal, we performed a cognitive experiment with eight subjects. During this experiment, the subjects were presented with two trays of stress-inducing stimuli (different in length) interlaced with the main tasks. The mean beta power calculated from the EEG signal recorded from the two prefrontal electrodes (Fp1 and Fp2) was used as a stress index. The main results are as follows: (i) we confirmed the previous finding that beta power assessed from the EEG signal recorded from prefrontal electrodes is significantly higher for the STRESS condition compared to NON-STRESS condition; (ii) we found a significant difference in beta power between STRESS conditions that differed in length-the beta power was four times higher for short, compared to long, stress-inducing stimuli; (iii) we did not find enough evidence to confirm (or reject) the hypothesis that stress stimuli repeated over time evoke the habituation effect; although the general trends aggregated over subjects and stressors were negative, their slopes were not statistically significant; moreover, there was no agreement among subjects with respect to the slope of individual trends.
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Abrahamsen R, Naish P. Studies in patients with temporomandibular disorders pain: Can scales of hypnotic susceptibility predict the outcome on pain relief? AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL HYPNOSIS 2022; 64:12-19. [PMID: 34748465 DOI: 10.1080/00029157.2020.1863183] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Many medical conditions are claimed to benefit when hypnosis is incorporated into their treatment. For some conditions, the claims are largely anecdotal, but the treatment of pain stands out in two ways. First, there is a strong body of evidence that hypnosis can produce clinically useful analgesic effects. Second, since innocuous pain can be induced in the laboratory, the process can be explored rigorously. This idea assumes that experimentally induced pain and clinical pain behave identically. We describe using experimentally induced pain in patients already suffering from temporomandibular disorders. Scanning results indicate that the pain and its amelioration are the same in the two circumstances. Moreover, the absence of any impact upon a nociceptive trigemino-facial reflex implies that the impact of hypnosis is purely cortical. Finally, we address the observation that clinical success correlates poorly with hypnotic susceptibility scores. It is proposed that a painful experimental situation induces anxiety. This, like hypnosis, has been associated with an emphasis on right hemisphere activity. Thus, clinical anxiety may render a person more responsive to hypnosis than would be indicated by a susceptibility test delivered in stress-free circumstances.
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Pratiher S, Srivastava A, Alam S, Sahoo KP, Banerjee N, Ghosh N, Patra A. Multi-granular Analysis and Physiological Interpretations of Heart Rate Variability Metrics During VR-Shooting Difficulty Induced Stress. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2022; 2022:1094-1097. [PMID: 36086337 DOI: 10.1109/embc48229.2022.9871729] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Physiological sensing of virtual reality (VR)-induced stressors are increasingly utilized to improve human training and assess the impact of gaming difficulty-induced stress on a person's health and well-being. However, the prior art sparsely explores the multi-level cardiovascular dynamics for psychophysiological demands in a VR environment. This treatise discusses the experimental findings and physiological interpretations of various heart rate variability (HRV) metrics extracted from 31 participants during a Go/No-Go VR-based shooting task across multiple timeframes. The VR-shooting exercise consists of firing at the enemy targets while sparing the friendly ones for different shooting difficulty levels: low-difficulty and high-difficulty with in-between baselines. Ex-perimental results demonstrate consistent shooting difficulty-induced stress patterns at multi-granular levels in response to the heterogeneous inputs (exogenous and endogenous factors). The physiological interpretations highlight the intricate inter-play between cardio-physiological components: sympathetic and parasympathetic response across multiple timescales (sessions and blocks) and shooting difficulty levels.
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A Novel Stress State Assessment Method for College Students Based on EEG. COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND NEUROSCIENCE 2022; 2022:4565968. [PMID: 35712070 PMCID: PMC9197644 DOI: 10.1155/2022/4565968] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2022] [Revised: 05/22/2022] [Accepted: 05/23/2022] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Stress is an unavoidable problem for today's college students. Stress can arouse strong personal emotional and behavioral responses. Compared with other groups of the same age, college students have a special way of life and living environment. They have complex interpersonal relationships and relatively weak social support systems. At the same time, they also face fierce competition in both academic and employment. However, they lack the skills to deal with the crisis and are reluctant to ask others for help, which leads to a simultaneous increase in mental stress. The pressure on college students mainly comes from study, family, social, employment, society, and economy. When students face multiple pressures from family, school, society, etc., some students are prone to some psychological problems due to their own personality or external environment and other reasons. Therefore, regular assessment of students' stress status is an important means to prevent college students' psychological problems. Considering that in real life, the number of students whose pressure is within the tolerable range is the majority, while the number of students who are under too much pressure is a minority. Therefore, the actual dataset to be identified belongs to a kind of imbalanced data. In this study, an improved extreme learning machine (IELM) is used to improve the performance of the recognition model as much as possible. IELM takes the idea of label weighting as the starting point, introduces the AdaBoost algorithm, and combines its weight distribution with the label weighted extreme learning machine (ELM). During the weight update process, the advantage of the imbalanced nature of multi-label datasets is taken. IELM was used to classify EEG data to determine the stress level of college students. The experimental results demonstrate that the algorithm used in this study has excellent classification performance and can accurately assess students' stress levels. The accurate assessment of stress has provided a solid foundation for the development of students' mental health and has significant practical implications.
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Poeppl TB, Dimas E, Sakreida K, Kernbach JM, Markello RD, Schöffski O, Dagher A, Koellinger P, Nave G, Farah MJ, Mišić B, Bzdok D. Pattern learning reveals brain asymmetry to be linked to socioeconomic status. Cereb Cortex Commun 2022; 3:tgac020. [PMID: 35702547 PMCID: PMC9188625 DOI: 10.1093/texcom/tgac020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2021] [Revised: 05/13/2022] [Accepted: 05/15/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Socioeconomic status (SES) anchors individuals in their social network layers. Our embedding in the societal fabric resonates with habitus, world view, opportunity, and health disparity. It remains obscure how distinct facets of SES are reflected in the architecture of the central nervous system. Here, we capitalized on multivariate multi-output learning algorithms to explore possible imprints of SES in gray and white matter structure in the wider population (n ≈ 10,000 UK Biobank participants). Individuals with higher SES, compared with those with lower SES, showed a pattern of increased region volumes in the left brain and decreased region volumes in the right brain. The analogous lateralization pattern emerged for the fiber structure of anatomical white matter tracts. Our multimodal findings suggest hemispheric asymmetry as an SES-related brain signature, which was consistent across six different indicators of SES: degree, education, income, job, neighborhood and vehicle count. Hence, hemispheric specialization may have evolved in human primates in a way that reveals crucial links to SES.
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- Timm B Poeppl
- Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Faculty of Medicine, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
- Department of Health Management, School of Business, Economics and Society, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, McConnell Brain Imaging Center (BIC), Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI), Faculty of Medicine, School of Computer Science, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Faculty of Medicine, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
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- McConnell Brain Imaging Center (BIC), Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI), Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Health Management, School of Business, Economics and Society, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany
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- Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI), McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Economics, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- La Follette School of Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
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- Marketing Department, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States of America
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- Center for Neuroscience & Society, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States of America
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- McConnell Brain Imaging Center (BIC), Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI), Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, McConnell Brain Imaging Center (BIC), Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI), Faculty of Medicine, School of Computer Science, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Ehrhardt NM, Fietz J, Kopf-Beck J, Kappelmann N, Brem AK. Separating EEG correlates of stress: Cognitive effort, time pressure, and social-evaluative threat. Eur J Neurosci 2022; 55:2464-2473. [PMID: 33780086 DOI: 10.1111/ejn.15211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2020] [Revised: 03/22/2021] [Accepted: 03/24/2021] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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The prefrontal cortex is a key player in stress response regulation. Electroencephalographic (EEG) responses, such as a decrease in frontal alpha and an increase in frontal beta power, have been proposed to reflect stress-related brain activity. However, the stress response is likely composed of different parts such as cognitive effort, time pressure, and social-evaluative threat, which have not been distinguished in previous studies. This distinction, however, is crucial if we aim to establish reliable tools for early detection of stress-related conditions and monitoring of stress responses throughout treatment. This randomized cross-over study (N = 38) aimed to disentangle EEG correlates of stress. With linear mixed models accounting for missing values in some conditions, we found a decrease in frontal alpha and increase in beta power when performing the Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test (PASAT; cognitive effort; n = 32) compared to resting state (n = 33). No change in EEG power was found when the PASAT was performed under time pressure (n = 29) or when adding social-evaluative threat (video camera; n = 29). These findings suggest that frontal EEG power can discriminate stress from resting state but not more fine-grained differences of the stress response.
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- Nina M Ehrhardt
- Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
- Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
- Department of Neurology, Universitätsmedizin Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Department of Translational Research in Psychiatry, Max-Planck-Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
- International Max Planck Research School for Translational Psychiatry (IMPRS-TP), Munich, Germany
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- Department of Translational Research in Psychiatry, Max-Planck-Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
- International Max Planck Research School for Translational Psychiatry (IMPRS-TP), Munich, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
- Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation, Division of Cognitive Neurology, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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Vanhollebeke G, De Smet S, De Raedt R, Baeken C, van Mierlo P, Vanderhasselt MA. The neural correlates of psychosocial stress: A systematic review and meta-analysis of spectral analysis EEG studies. Neurobiol Stress 2022; 18:100452. [PMID: 35573807 PMCID: PMC9095895 DOI: 10.1016/j.ynstr.2022.100452] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2021] [Revised: 04/15/2022] [Accepted: 04/17/2022] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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- Gert Vanhollebeke
- Department of Head and Skin, Ghent Experimental Psychiatry (GHEP) Lab, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
- Medical Image and Signal Processing Group (MEDISIP), Department of Electronics and Information Systems, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
- Corresponding author. University Hospital Ghent Ghent, C. Heymanslaan 10, entrance 12 – floor 13, 9000, Belgium.
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- Department of Head and Skin, Ghent Experimental Psychiatry (GHEP) Lab, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Head and Skin, Ghent Experimental Psychiatry (GHEP) Lab, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
- Department of Experimental Clinical and Health Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Head and Skin, Ghent Experimental Psychiatry (GHEP) Lab, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
- Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital (UZBrussel), Brussels, Belgium
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- Medical Image and Signal Processing Group (MEDISIP), Department of Electronics and Information Systems, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Head and Skin, Ghent Experimental Psychiatry (GHEP) Lab, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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Wallace J, Yahia-Cherif L, Gitton C, Hugueville L, Lemaréchal JD, Selmaoui B. Human resting-state EEG and radiofrequency GSM mobile phone exposure: the impact of the individual alpha frequency. Int J Radiat Biol 2021; 98:986-995. [PMID: 34797205 DOI: 10.1080/09553002.2021.2009146] [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] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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PURPOSE With the extensive use of mobile phone (MP), several studies have been realized to investigate the effects of radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) exposure on brain activity at rest via electroencephalography (EEG), and the most consistent effect has been seen on the alpha band power spectral density (PSD). However, some studies reported an increase or a decrease of the PSD, while others showed no effect. It has been suggested that these differences might partly be due to a variability of the physiological state of the brain between subjects. So, the aim of this study was to investigate the alpha band modulation, exploring the impact of the alpha band frequency ranges applied in the PSD analysis. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty-one healthy volunteers took part to the study with a double-blind, randomized and counterbalanced crossover design, during which eyes-open (EO) and eyes-closed (EC) resting-state EEG was recorded. The exposure system was a sham or a real GSM (global system for mobile) 900 MHz MP (pulse modulated at 217 Hz, mean power of 250 mW and 2 W peak, with a maximum specific absorption rate of 0.70 W/kg on 1 g tissue). The experimental protocol presented a baseline recording phase without MP exposure, an exposure phase during which the exposure system was placed against the left ear, and the post-exposure phase without MP. EEG data from baseline and exposure phases were analyzed and PSD was computed for the alpha band in the fixed range of 8-12 Hz and for the individual alpha band frequency range (IAF). RESULTS Results showed a trend in decrease or increase of EEG power of both alpha oscillations during exposure in relation to EC and EO recording conditions, respectively, but not reaching statistical significance. Findings did not provide evidence for a different sensitivity to RF-EMF MP related to individual variability in the frequency of the alpha band. CONCLUSION In conclusion, these results did not show alpha band activity modulation during resting-state under RF-EMF. It might be argued the need of a delay after the exposure in order to appreciate an EEG spectral power modulation related to RF-EMF exposure.
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- Jasmina Wallace
- Department of Experimental Toxicology and Modeling (TEAM), Institut National de l'Environnement Industriel et des Risques (INERIS), Verneuil-en-Halatte, France.,PériTox Laboratory, UMR-I 01 INERIS, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France.,Department of Biological Radiation Effect, Emergent Risk Technologies Unit, French Armed Forces Biomedical Research Institute (IRBA), Bretigny-sur-Orge, France
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- Centre De NeuroImagerie De Recherche (CENIR), Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière (ICM), Paris, France.,Inserm U 1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Sorbonne Université, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière (ICM), Paris, France
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- Centre De NeuroImagerie De Recherche (CENIR), Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière (ICM), Paris, France.,Inserm U 1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Sorbonne Université, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière (ICM), Paris, France
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- Centre De NeuroImagerie De Recherche (CENIR), Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière (ICM), Paris, France.,Inserm U 1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Sorbonne Université, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière (ICM), Paris, France
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- Centre De NeuroImagerie De Recherche (CENIR), Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière (ICM), Paris, France.,Inserm U 1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Sorbonne Université, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière (ICM), Paris, France
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- Department of Experimental Toxicology and Modeling (TEAM), Institut National de l'Environnement Industriel et des Risques (INERIS), Verneuil-en-Halatte, France.,PériTox Laboratory, UMR-I 01 INERIS, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France
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Wallace J, Yahia-Cherif L, Gitton C, Hugueville L, Lemaréchal JD, Selmaoui B. Modulation of magnetoencephalography alpha band activity by radiofrequency electromagnetic field depicted in sensor and source space. Sci Rep 2021; 11:23403. [PMID: 34862418 PMCID: PMC8642443 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-02560-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2021] [Accepted: 11/12/2021] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Several studies reported changes in spontaneous electroencephalogram alpha band activity related to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields, but findings showed both an increase and a decrease of its spectral power or no effect. Here, we studied the alpha band modulation after 900 MHz mobile phone radiofrequency exposure and localized cortical regions involved in these changes, via a magnetoencephalography (MEG) protocol with healthy volunteers in a double-blind, randomized, counterbalanced crossover design. MEG was recorded during eyes open and eyes closed resting-state before and after radiofrequency exposure. Potential confounding factors, known to affect alpha band activity, were assessed as control parameters to limit bias. Entire alpha band, lower and upper alpha sub-bands MEG power spectral densities were estimated in sensor and source space. Biochemistry assays for salivary biomarkers of stress (cortisol, chromogranin-A, alpha amylase), heart rate variability analysis and high-performance liquid chromatography for salivary caffeine concentration were realized. Results in sensor and source space showed a significant modulation of MEG alpha band activity after the radiofrequency exposure, with different involved cortical regions in relation to the eyes condition, probably because of different attention level with open or closed eyes. None of the control parameters reported a statistically significant difference between experimental sessions.
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- Jasmina Wallace
- Department of Experimental Toxicology and Modeling (TEAM), Institut National de l'Environnement Industriel et des Risques (INERIS), Parc Technologique Alata, BP 2, 60550, Verneuil-en-Halatte, France
- PériTox Laboratory, UMR-I 01 INERIS, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, 80025, Amiens, France
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- Centre De NeuroImagerie De Recherche (CENIR), Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière (ICM), 75013, Paris, France
- Inserm U 1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière (ICM), Sorbonne Université, 75013, Paris, France
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- Centre De NeuroImagerie De Recherche (CENIR), Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière (ICM), 75013, Paris, France
- Inserm U 1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière (ICM), Sorbonne Université, 75013, Paris, France
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- Centre De NeuroImagerie De Recherche (CENIR), Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière (ICM), 75013, Paris, France
- Inserm U 1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière (ICM), Sorbonne Université, 75013, Paris, France
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- Centre De NeuroImagerie De Recherche (CENIR), Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière (ICM), 75013, Paris, France
- Inserm U 1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière (ICM), Sorbonne Université, 75013, Paris, France
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- Department of Experimental Toxicology and Modeling (TEAM), Institut National de l'Environnement Industriel et des Risques (INERIS), Parc Technologique Alata, BP 2, 60550, Verneuil-en-Halatte, France.
- PériTox Laboratory, UMR-I 01 INERIS, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, 80025, Amiens, France.
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Mohamed M, Jo E, Mohamed N, Kim M, Yun JD, Kim JG. Development of an Integrated EEG/fNIRS Brain Function Monitoring System. SENSORS 2021; 21:s21227703. [PMID: 34833775 PMCID: PMC8625300 DOI: 10.3390/s21227703] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2021] [Revised: 11/10/2021] [Accepted: 11/15/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
Abstract
In this study, a fully integrated electroencephalogram/functional near-infrared spectroscopy (EEG/fNIRS) brain monitoring system was designed to fulfill the demand for a miniaturized, light-weight, low-power-consumption, and low-cost brain monitoring system as a potential tool with which to screen for brain diseases. The system is based on the ADS1298IPAG Analog Front-End (AFE) and can simultaneously acquire two-channel EEG signals with a sampling rate of 250 SPS and six-channel fNIRS signals with a sampling rate of 8 SPS. AFE is controlled by Teensy 3.2 and powered by a lithium polymer battery connected to two protection circuits and regulators. The acquired EEG and fNIRS signals are monitored and stored using a Graphical User Interface (GUI). The system was evaluated by implementing several tests to verify its ability to simultaneously acquire EEG and fNIRS signals. The implemented system can acquire EEG and fNIRS signals with a CMRR of -115 dB, power consumption of 0.75 mW/ch, system weight of 70.5 g, probe weight of 3.1 g, and a total cost of USD 130. The results proved that this system can be qualified as a low-cost, light-weight, low-power-consumption, and fully integrated EEG/fNIRS brain monitoring system.
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- Manal Mohamed
- Biomedical Science and Engineering Department, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju 61005, Korea; (M.M.); (E.J.); (N.M.); (M.K.)
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- Biomedical Science and Engineering Department, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju 61005, Korea; (M.M.); (E.J.); (N.M.); (M.K.)
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- Biomedical Science and Engineering Department, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju 61005, Korea; (M.M.); (E.J.); (N.M.); (M.K.)
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- Biomedical Science and Engineering Department, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju 61005, Korea; (M.M.); (E.J.); (N.M.); (M.K.)
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- Biomedical Science and Engineering Department, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju 61005, Korea; (M.M.); (E.J.); (N.M.); (M.K.)
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +82-62-715-2220
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Metzen D, Genç E, Getzmann S, Larra MF, Wascher E, Ocklenburg S. Frontal and parietal EEG alpha asymmetry: a large-scale investigation of short-term reliability on distinct EEG systems. Brain Struct Funct 2021; 227:725-740. [PMID: 34676455 PMCID: PMC8843903 DOI: 10.1007/s00429-021-02399-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2021] [Accepted: 09/28/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Abstract
EEG resting-state alpha asymmetry is one of the most widely investigated forms of functional hemispheric asymmetries in both basic and clinical neuroscience. However, studies yield inconsistent results. One crucial prerequisite to obtain reproducible results is the reliability of the index of interest. There is a body of research suggesting a moderate-to-good reliability of EEG resting-state alpha asymmetry, but unfortunately sample sizes in these studies are typically small. This study presents the first large-scale short-term reliability study of frontal and parietal EEG resting-state alpha asymmetry. We used the Dortmund Vital Study data set containing 370 participants. In each participant, EEG resting state was recorded eight times, twice with their eyes opened, twice with their eyes-closed, each on two different EEG systems. We found good reliability of EEG alpha power and alpha asymmetry on both systems for electrode pairs. We also found that alpha power asymmetry reliability is higher in the eyes-closed condition than in the eyes-open condition. The frontomedial electrode pair showed weaker reliability than the frontolateral and parietal electrode pairs. Interestingly, we found no population-level alpha asymmetry in frontal electrodes, one of the most investigated electrode sites in alpha asymmetry research. In conclusion, our results suggest that while EEG alpha asymmetry is an overall reliable measure, frontal alpha asymmetry should be assessed using multiple electrode pairs.
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- Dorothea Metzen
- Department of Biopsychology, Faculty of Psychology, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Ruhr University Bochum, Universitätsstraße 150, 44801, Bochum, Germany.
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- Department of Psychology and Neurosciences, Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Technical University of Dortmund (IfADo), 44139, Dortmund, Germany
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- Department of Ergonomics, Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Technical University of Dortmund (IfADo), 44139, Dortmund, Germany
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- Department of Ergonomics, Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Technical University of Dortmund (IfADo), 44139, Dortmund, Germany
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- Department of Ergonomics, Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Technical University of Dortmund (IfADo), 44139, Dortmund, Germany
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Koller-Schlaud K, Querbach J, Behr J, Ströhle A, Rentzsch J. Test-Retest Reliability of Frontal and Parietal Alpha Asymmetry during Presentation of Emotional Face Stimuli in Healthy Subjects. Neuropsychobiology 2021; 79:428-436. [PMID: 32182618 DOI: 10.1159/000505783] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2019] [Accepted: 01/05/2020] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
Abstract
Resting-state and event-related frontal alpha asymmetry have been suggested as potential neurobiological biomarkers for depression and other psychiatric conditions. To be used as such, sufficient test-retest reliability needs to be demonstrated. However, test-retest reliability is underinvestigated for event-related alpha asymmetry. The objective of this study was to examine both short-term within-session and long-term between-session reliability of stimulus-related medial and lateral frontal as well as parietal alpha EEG asymmetry in healthy subjects during a simple emotional face processing task. Twenty-three healthy adults participated in two sessions with a test-retest interval of about 1 week. Reliability was estimated with Pearson's correlation coefficient and paired t test. Results revealed moderate to high within-session reliability of stimulus-related alpha asymmetry for all electrode sites and both conditions. Alpha asymmetry mean values did not change significantly within sessions. Between-session reliability was fair for frontomedial and moderate for frontolateral stimulus-related asymmetry. Exploratory exclusion of subjects with unstable between-session self-rating scores of emotional state and empathy toward stimuli resulted in some higher reliability values. Our results indicate that stimulus-related alpha asymmetry may serve as a useful electrophysiological tool given its adequate within-session reliability. However, long-term stability of stimulus-related frontal alpha asymmetry over 1 week was comparatively low and varied depending on electrode position. Influencing state factors during EEG recording, such as current mood or stimulus engagement, should be considered in future study designs and analyses. Further, we recommend to analyze alpha asymmetry from both frontomedial and frontolateral sites.
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- Kristin Koller-Schlaud
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Campus Mitte, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany.,Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics, Brandenburg Medical School Theodor Fontane, Neuruppin, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Campus Mitte, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Campus Mitte, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany.,Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics, Brandenburg Medical School Theodor Fontane, Neuruppin, Germany.,Faculty of Health Science Brandenburg, Joint Faculty of the University of Potsdam, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg and Brandenburg Medical School Theodor Fontane, Potsdam, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Campus Mitte, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Campus Mitte, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany, .,Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics, Brandenburg Medical School Theodor Fontane, Neuruppin, Germany,
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Akella A, Singh AK, Leong D, Lal S, Newton P, Clifton-Bligh R, Mclachlan CS, Gustin SM, Maharaj S, Lees T, Cao Z, Lin CT. Classifying Multi-Level Stress Responses From Brain Cortical EEG in Nurses and Non-Health Professionals Using Machine Learning Auto Encoder. IEEE JOURNAL OF TRANSLATIONAL ENGINEERING IN HEALTH AND MEDICINE 2021; 9:2200109. [PMID: 34094720 PMCID: PMC8172183 DOI: 10.1109/jtehm.2021.3077760] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2020] [Revised: 03/17/2021] [Accepted: 04/09/2021] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Mental stress is a major problem in our society and has become an area of interest for many psychiatric researchers. One primary research focus area is the identification of bio-markers that not only identify stress but also predict the conditions (or tasks) that cause stress. Electroencephalograms (EEGs) have been used for a long time to study and identify bio-markers. While these bio-markers have successfully predicted stress in EEG studies for binary conditions, their performance is suboptimal for multiple conditions of stress. METHODS To overcome this challenge, we propose using latent based representations of the bio-markers, which have been shown to significantly improve EEG performance compared to traditional bio-markers alone. We evaluated three commonly used EEG based bio-markers for stress, the brain load index (BLI), the spectral power values of EEG frequency bands (alpha, beta and theta), and the relative gamma (RG), with their respective latent representations using four commonly used classifiers. RESULTS The results show that spectral power value based bio-markers had a high performance with an accuracy of 83%, while the respective latent representations had an accuracy of 91%.
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- Ashlesha Akella
- FEIT, School of Computer ScienceAustralian Artificial Intelligence Institute, University of Technology SydneyUltimoNSW2007Australia
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- FEIT, School of Computer ScienceAustralian Artificial Intelligence Institute, University of Technology SydneyUltimoNSW2007Australia
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- FEIT, School of Computer ScienceAustralian Artificial Intelligence Institute, University of Technology SydneyUltimoNSW2007Australia
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- Neuroscience Research Unit, School of Life SciencesUniversity of Technology SydneyUltimoNSW2007Australia
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- Centre for Cardiovascular and Chronic CareUniversity of Technology SydneyUltimoNSW2007Australia
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- Department of EndocrinologyRoyal North Shore HospitalThe University of SydneySydneyNSW2006Australia
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- Centre for Healthy Futures, Health VerticalTorrens University Australia, Pyrmont CampusPyrmontNSW2009Australia
- Neuroscience Research AustraliaRandwickNSW2031Australia
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- Neuroscience Research Unit, School of Life SciencesUniversity of Technology SydneyUltimoNSW2007Australia
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- Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research CenterPennsylvania State UniversityState CollegePA16801USA
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- Information and Communication Technology (ICT)University of TasmaniaHobartTAS7005Australia
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- FEIT, School of Computer ScienceAustralian Artificial Intelligence Institute, University of Technology SydneyUltimoNSW2007Australia
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Bonassi A, Ghilardi T, Gabrieli G, Truzzi A, Doi H, Borelli JL, Lepri B, Shinohara K, Esposito G. The Recognition of Cross-Cultural Emotional Faces Is Affected by Intensity and Ethnicity in a Japanese Sample. Behav Sci (Basel) 2021; 11:bs11050059. [PMID: 33922502 PMCID: PMC8146535 DOI: 10.3390/bs11050059] [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: 02/28/2021] [Revised: 04/14/2021] [Accepted: 04/16/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Human faces convey a range of emotions and psychobiological signals that support social interactions. Multiple factors potentially mediate the facial expressions of emotions across cultures. To further determine the mechanisms underlying human emotion recognition in a complex and ecological environment, we hypothesized that both behavioral and neurophysiological measures would be influenced by stimuli ethnicity (Japanese, Caucasian) in the context of ambiguous emotional expressions (mid-happy, angry). We assessed the neurophysiological and behavioral responses of neurotypical Japanese adults (N = 27, 13 males) involved in a facial expression recognition task. Results uncover an interaction between universal and culturally-driven mechanisms. No differences in behavioral responses are found between male and female participants, male and female faces, and neutral Japanese versus Caucasian faces. However, Caucasian ambiguous emotional expressions which require more energy-consuming processing, as highlighted by neurophysiological results of the Arousal Index, were judged more accurately than Japanese ones. Additionally, a differential Frontal Asymmetry Index in neuronal activation, the signature of an approach versus avoidance response, is found in male participants according to the gender and emotional valence of the stimuli.
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- Andrea Bonassi
- Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Trento, 38068 Rovereto, Italy;
- Mobile and Social Computing Lab, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, 38122 Trento, Italy;
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, The Netherlands;
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- Psychology Program, School of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639818, Singapore;
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- Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland;
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- Medical Engineering Department, Kokushikan University, Tokyo 154-8515, Japan;
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- Department of Psychological Science, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-7085, USA;
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- Mobile and Social Computing Lab, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, 38122 Trento, Italy;
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- Department of Neurology and Behavior, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki 852-8523, Japan;
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- Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Trento, 38068 Rovereto, Italy;
- Psychology Program, School of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639818, Singapore;
- Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 308222, Singapore
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Palacios-García I, Silva J, Villena-González M, Campos-Arteaga G, Artigas-Vergara C, Luarte N, Rodríguez E, Bosman CA. Increase in Beta Power Reflects Attentional Top-Down Modulation After Psychosocial Stress Induction. Front Hum Neurosci 2021; 15:630813. [PMID: 33833671 PMCID: PMC8021732 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2021.630813] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2020] [Accepted: 02/26/2021] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Selective attention depends on goal-directed and stimulus-driven modulatory factors, each relayed by different brain rhythms. Under certain circumstances, stress-related states can change the balance between goal-directed and stimulus-driven factors. However, the neuronal mechanisms underlying these changes remain unclear. In this study, we explored how psychosocial stress can modulate brain rhythms during an attentional task and a task-free period. We recorded the EEG and ECG activity of 42 healthy participants subjected to either the Trier Social Stress Test (TSST), a controlled procedure to induce stress, or a comparable control protocol (same physical and cognitive effort but without the stress component), flanked by an attentional task, a 90 s of task-free period and a state of anxiety questionnaire. We observed that psychosocial stress induced an increase in heart rate (HR), self-reported anxiety, and alpha power synchronization. Also, psychosocial stress evoked a relative beta power increase during correct trials of the attentional task, which correlates positively with anxiety and heart rate increase, and inversely with attentional accuracy. These results suggest that psychosocial stress affects performance by redirecting attentional resources toward internal threat-related thoughts. An increment of endogenous top-down modulation reflected an increased beta-band activity that may serve as a compensatory mechanism to redirect attentional resources toward the ongoing task. The data obtained here may contribute to designing new ways of clinical management of the human stress response in the future and could help to minimize the damaging effects of persistent stressful experiences.
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- Ismael Palacios-García
- Laboratorio de Neurodinámica Básica y Aplicada, Escuela de Psicología, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.,Centro de Estudios en Neurociencia Humana y Neuropsicología, Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile
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- Centro de Apego y Regulación Emocional, Facultad de Psicología, Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile.,Clínica Alemana de Santiago, Santiago, Chile
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- Laboratorio de Neurodinámica Básica y Aplicada, Escuela de Psicología, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.,Centro de Estudios en Neurociencia Humana y Neuropsicología, Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile
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- Laboratorio de Neurodinámica Básica y Aplicada, Escuela de Psicología, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Laboratorio de Neurodinámica Básica y Aplicada, Escuela de Psicología, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Department of Physiology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Laboratorio de Neurodinámica Básica y Aplicada, Escuela de Psicología, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience Group, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, Center for Neuroscience, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.,Research Priority Program Brain and Cognition, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Anaya B, Vallorani A, Pérez-Edgar K. Dyadic behavioral synchrony between behaviorally inhibited and non-inhibited peers is associated with concordance in EEG frontal Alpha asymmetry and Delta-Beta coupling. Biol Psychol 2021; 159:108018. [PMID: 33450325 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2021.108018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2020] [Revised: 01/06/2021] [Accepted: 01/08/2021] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Behavioral synchrony during social interactions is foundational for the development of social relationships. Behavioral inhibition (BI), characterized by wariness to social novelty and increased anxiety, may influence how children engage in moment-to-moment behavioral synchrony. EEG-derived frontal Alpha asymmetry and Delta-Beta coupling reflect approach-avoidance behavior and emotion regulation, respectively. We examined the relation between intradyadic behavioral synchrony in energy levels and peer gaze, BI, and EEG measures (N = 136, 68 dyads, MeanAge = 10.90 years) during unstructured and structured interactions. Energy levels were negatively synchronized when both children exhibited right Alpha asymmetry. If either child exhibited left Alpha asymmetry, the dyad exhibited more positive synchrony. Peer gaze was less synchronized during the unstructured task with left Alpha asymmetry. Greater positive Delta-Beta coupling in BI children was associated with more peer gaze synchrony. Peer gaze was asynchronous when BI children exhibited negative Delta-Beta coupling and their partner exhibited positive coupling.
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EEG Frontal Asymmetry and Theta Power in Unipolar and Bipolar Depression. J Affect Disord 2020; 276:501-510. [PMID: 32871681 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2020.07.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2019] [Revised: 06/12/2020] [Accepted: 07/05/2020] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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BACKGROUND Distinguishing between unipolar and bipolar depression is of high clinical relevance. However, there is sparse research directly comparing these groups in terms of EEG activity. METHOD We investigated 87 participants' left and right EEG frontal alpha-1, alpha-2, and theta activity related to happy and sad face stimuli in unipolar (UD, n=33) and bipolar (BD, n=22) depressed participants, and controls without depression (HC, n=32). RESULTS Post-hoc analysis of an observed hemisphere x group interaction (p< .037) showed significant differences in alpha-1 asymmetry only for the comparison of UD and HC (p< .006). Further analysis of a significant emotion x group interaction (p= .001) revealed a differential impact of stimulus valence on theta power between the groups (p< .001). The valence dependent theta power of the BD differed from that of the UD (p< .0002) and the HC (p< .004). Alpha-1 asymmetry classified HC and both depressed groups with an accuracy of .69. Valence-related theta classified BD from UD with an accuracy of .83. Leave-one-out cross validation resulted in slightly reduced accuracy. LIMITATIONS Important limitations were the small sample size and that subjects were not medication-free. CONCLUSIONS Our results demonstrate the value of simple, task related EEG activity for differentiating not only healthy individuals from those with depression, but also individuals with unipolar depression from those with bipolar depression.
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Bagheri M, Power SD. EEG-based detection of mental workload level and stress: the effect of variation in each state on classification of the other. J Neural Eng 2020; 17:056015. [DOI: 10.1088/1741-2552/abbc27] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Liu J, Wu G, Luo Y, Qiu S, Yang S, Li W, Bi Y. EEG-Based Emotion Classification Using a Deep Neural Network and Sparse Autoencoder. Front Syst Neurosci 2020; 14:43. [PMID: 32982703 PMCID: PMC7492909 DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2020.00043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2020] [Accepted: 06/12/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Emotion classification based on brain-computer interface (BCI) systems is an appealing research topic. Recently, deep learning has been employed for the emotion classifications of BCI systems and compared to traditional classification methods improved results have been obtained. In this paper, a novel deep neural network is proposed for emotion classification using EEG systems, which combines the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), Sparse Autoencoder (SAE), and Deep Neural Network (DNN) together. In the proposed network, the features extracted by the CNN are first sent to SAE for encoding and decoding. Then the data with reduced redundancy are used as the input features of a DNN for classification task. The public datasets of DEAP and SEED are used for testing. Experimental results show that the proposed network is more effective than conventional CNN methods on the emotion recognitions. For the DEAP dataset, the highest recognition accuracies of 89.49% and 92.86% are achieved for valence and arousal, respectively. For the SEED dataset, however, the best recognition accuracy reaches 96.77%. By combining the CNN, SAE, and DNN and training them separately, the proposed network is shown as an efficient method with a faster convergence than the conventional CNN.
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- Junxiu Liu
- School of Electronic Engineering, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, China
- Guangxi Key Lab of Multi-Source Information Mining & Security, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, China
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- School of Electronic Engineering, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, China
- Guangxi Key Lab of Multi-Source Information Mining & Security, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, China
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- School of Electronic Engineering, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, China
- Guangxi Key Lab of Multi-Source Information Mining & Security, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, China
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- School of Electronic Engineering, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, China
- Guangxi Key Lab of Multi-Source Information Mining & Security, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, China
- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Wireless Wideband Communication and Signal Processing, Guilin, China
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- Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China
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- Academy for Engineering & Technology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
- Department of Electronic Engineering, The University of York, York, United Kingdom
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- College of Foreign Languages, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
- Department of Psychology, The University of York, York, United Kingdom
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Zohdi H, Scholkmann F, Wolf U. Frontal cerebral oxygenation asymmetry: intersubject variability and dependence on systemic physiology, season, and time of day. NEUROPHOTONICS 2020; 7:025006. [PMID: 32607390 PMCID: PMC7310879 DOI: 10.1117/1.nph.7.2.025006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2020] [Accepted: 06/08/2020] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Significance: Our study reveals that frontal cerebral oxygenation asymmetry (FCOA), i.e. a difference in the oxygenation between the right and left prefrontal cortex (PFC), is a real phenomenon in healthy human subjects at rest. Aim: To investigate FCOA, we performed a study with 134 healthy right-handed subjects with the systemic physiology augmented functional near infrared spectroscopy (SPA-fNIRS) approach. Approach: Subjects were measured 2 to 4 times on different days resulting in an unprecedented number of 518 single measurements of the absolute values of tissue oxygen saturation (StO 2 ) and total hemoglobin concentration ([tHb]) of the right and left PFC. Measurements were performed with frequency-domain functional near-infrared spectroscopy. In addition, the cardiorespiratory parameters were measured simultaneously. Results: We found that (i) subjects showed an FCOA (higherStO 2 on the right PFC), but not for tHb; (ii) intrasubject variability was excellent for bothStO 2 and tHb, and fair for FCOA; (iii) StO 2 correlated significantly with bloodCO 2 concentration, [tHb] with heart rate, respiration rate (RR), and the pulse-respiration quotient (PRQ), and FCOA with RR and PRQ; (iv) FCOA andStO 2 were dependent on season and time of day, respectively; (v) FCOA was negatively correlated with the room temperature; and (vi) StO 2 and tHb were not correlated with the subjects mood but with their chronotype, whereas FCOA was not dependent on the chronotype. Conclusion: Our study demonstrates that FCOA is real, and it provides unique insights into this remarkable phenomenon.
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- Hamoon Zohdi
- University of Bern, Institute of Complementary and Integrative Medicine, Bern, Switzerland
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- University of Bern, Institute of Complementary and Integrative Medicine, Bern, Switzerland
- University of Zurich, University Hospital Zurich, Biomedical Optics Research Laboratory, Department of Neonatology, Zurich, Switzerland
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- University of Bern, Institute of Complementary and Integrative Medicine, Bern, Switzerland
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Saeed SMU, Anwar SM, Khalid H, Majid M, Bagci U. EEG based Classification of Long-term Stress Using Psychological Labeling. SENSORS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2020; 20:E1886. [PMID: 32235295 PMCID: PMC7180785 DOI: 10.3390/s20071886] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2020] [Revised: 03/25/2020] [Accepted: 03/25/2020] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Stress research is a rapidly emerging area in the field of electroencephalography (EEG) signal processing. The use of EEG as an objective measure for cost effective and personalized stress management becomes important in situations like the nonavailability of mental health facilities. In this study, long-term stress was classified with machine learning algorithms using resting state EEG signal recordings. The labeling for the stress and control groups was performed using two currently accepted clinical practices: (i) the perceived stress scale score and (ii) expert evaluation. The frequency domain features were extracted from five-channel EEG recordings in addition to the frontal and temporal alpha and beta asymmetries. The alpha asymmetry was computed from four channels and used as a feature. Feature selection was also performed to identify statistically significant features for both stress and control groups (via t-test). We found that support vector machine was best suited to classify long-term human stress when used with alpha asymmetry as a feature. It was observed that the expert evaluation-based labeling method had improved the classification accuracy by up to 85.20%. Based on these results, it is concluded that alpha asymmetry may be used as a potential bio-marker for stress classification, when labels are assigned using expert evaluation.
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- Sanay Muhammad Umar Saeed
- Department of Computer Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila 47050, Pakistan; (S.M.U.S.); (M.M.)
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- Department of Software Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila 47050, Pakistan
- Department of Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, USA;
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- Department of Psychology, Benazir Bhutto Hospital, Rawalpindi 46000, Pakistan;
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- Department of Computer Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila 47050, Pakistan; (S.M.U.S.); (M.M.)
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, USA;
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van de Ven MCJ, van den Heuvel MI, Bhogal A, Lewis T, Thomason ME. Impact of maternal childhood trauma on child behavioral problems: The role of child frontal alpha asymmetry. Dev Psychobiol 2020; 62:154-169. [PMID: 31372993 PMCID: PMC6994323 DOI: 10.1002/dev.21900] [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: 01/21/2019] [Revised: 06/24/2019] [Accepted: 07/07/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Childhood trauma is associated with many long-term negative outcomes, and is not limited to the individual experiencing the trauma, but extends to subsequent generations. However, mechanisms underlying the association between maternal childhood trauma and child psychopathology are not well understood. Here, we targeted frontal alpha asymmetry (FAA) as a potential underlying factor of the relationship between maternal childhood trauma and child behavioral problems. Electroencephalography (EEG) was recorded from (N = 45) children (Mean age = 57.9 months, SD = 3.13) during an eyes-closed paradigm in order to evaluate FAA. Mothers reported on their childhood trauma experiences using the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ), and on their child's behavior using the child behavior checklist (CBCL). We found that maternal childhood trauma significantly predicted child total, internalizing, and externalizing behavior at age 5 years. We also observed a role for FAA such that it acted as a moderator, but not mediator, for behavioral problems. We found that children with relative more right/less left frontal activity were more at risk to develop behavioral problems when their mother had been exposed to trauma in her childhood. These results indicate that child frontal asymmetry may serve as a susceptibility marker for child behavioral problems.
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- Maria C. J. van de Ven
- Cognitive Neuropsychology, Behavioral and Movement SciencesVrije UniversiteitAmsterdamThe Netherlands
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- Department of PsychologyWayne State UniversityDetroitMichigan
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- Department of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryNew York University School of Medicine, NYU Langone Medical CenterNew YorkNew York
- Department of Population HealthNew York University School of Medicine, NYU Langone Medical CenterNew YorkNew York
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Penchina B, Sundaresan A, Cheong S, Martel A. Deep LSTM Recurrent Neural Network for Anxiety Classification from EEG in Adolescents with Autism. Brain Inform 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-59277-6_21] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022] Open
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di Fronso S, Fiedler P, Tamburro G, Haueisen J, Bertollo M, Comani S. Dry EEG in Sports Sciences: A Fast and Reliable Tool to Assess Individual Alpha Peak Frequency Changes Induced by Physical Effort. Front Neurosci 2019; 13:982. [PMID: 31619953 PMCID: PMC6763587 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2019.00982] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2019] [Accepted: 09/02/2019] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Novel state-of-the-art amplifier and cap systems enable Electroencephalography (EEG) recording outside of stationary lab systems during physical exercise and body motion. However, extensive preparation time, cleaning, and limited long-term stability of conventional gel-based electrode systems pose significant limitations in out-of-the-lab conditions. Dry electrode systems may contribute to rapid and repetitive mobile EEG acquisition with significantly reduced preparation time, reduced cleaning requirements, and possible self-application by the volunteer but are known for higher channel failure probability and increased sensitivity to movement artifacts. We performed a counterbalanced repeated measure endurance cycling study to objectively validate the performance and applicability of a novel commercially available 64-channel dry electrode cap for sport science. A total of 17 healthy volunteers participated in the study, performing an endurance cycling paradigm comprising five phases: (I) baseline EEG, (II) pre-cycling EEG, (III) endurance cycling, (IV) active recovery, and (V) passive recovery. We compared the performance of the 64-channel dry electrode cap with a commercial gel-based cap system in terms of usability metrics, reliability, and signal characteristics. Furthermore, we validated the performance of the dry cap during a realistic sport science investigation, verifying the hypothesis of a systematic, reproducible shift of the individual alpha peak frequency (iAPF) induced by physical effort. The average preparation time of the dry cap was one-third of the gel-based electrode caps. The average channel reliability of the dry cap varied between 80 ± 15% (Phase I), 66 ± 19% (Phase III), and 91 ± 10% (Phase V). In comparison, the channel reliability of the gel-based cap varied between 95 ± 3, 85 ± 9, and 82 ± 9%, respectively. No considerable differences were evident for the comfort evaluations nor the signal characteristics of both caps. A within-volunteers repeated measure analysis of variance (RM-ANOVA) did not show significant effects of the electrode type on the iAPF [F(1,12) = 1.670, p = 0.221, ηp2 = 0.122, Power = 0.222]. However, a significant increase of the iAPF exists from Phase II to Phases IV and V due to exhaustive physical task. In conclusion, we demonstrated that dry electrode cap is equivalent to the gel-based electrode cap based on signal characteristics, comfort, and signal information content, thereby confirming the usefulness of dry electrodes in sports science and other mobile applications involving ample movement.
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- Selenia di Fronso
- Behavioral Imaging and Neural Dynamics Center, University "G. d'Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy.,Department of Medicine and Aging Sciences, University "G. d'Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy
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- Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Informatics, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Ilmenau, Germany.,eemagine Medical Imaging Solutions GmbH, Berlin, Germany
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- Behavioral Imaging and Neural Dynamics Center, University "G. d'Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy.,Department of Neurosciences, Imaging and Clinical Sciences, University "G. d'Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy
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- Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Informatics, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Ilmenau, Germany.,Department of Neurology, Biomagnetic Center, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany
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- Behavioral Imaging and Neural Dynamics Center, University "G. d'Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy.,Department of Medicine and Aging Sciences, University "G. d'Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy
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- Behavioral Imaging and Neural Dynamics Center, University "G. d'Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy.,Department of Neurosciences, Imaging and Clinical Sciences, University "G. d'Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy
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Duan H, Fang H, Zhang Y, Shi X, Zhang L. Associations between cortisol awakening response and resting electroencephalograph asymmetry. PeerJ 2019; 7:e7059. [PMID: 31198648 PMCID: PMC6553442 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.7059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2019] [Accepted: 05/03/2019] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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The cortisol awakening response (CAR), a rapid cortisol rise in the morning after awakening, has been proposed to provide energy to cope with daily demands and suggested to be associated with brain functions. Electroencephalogram (EEG) asymmetry studies have implicated asymmetric cortical activation, especially in frontal cortex, in approach-withdrawal motivation. In this study, we examined the relationship between the CAR and lateralized cortical activity under rest in 55 university male students. Saliva samples were collected at 0, 15, 30 and 60 min after awakening on the two consecutive workdays. The lateralized cortical activity at frontocentral sites was examined by alpha asymmetry score. The results showed that a higher CAR was positively associated with alpha asymmetry score, which indicated that the higher CAR is linked with more left-sided cortical activity at frontocentral sites under resting state. This association still existed even after controlling psychological and sleep quality variables. These results suggested that appropriately mobilizing energy resource storage after awakening revealed as CAR might be associated with goal-directed approach tendencies before any eventual stressful situation, characteristic of more left than right resting-state frontocentral cortical activity.
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- Hongxia Duan
- Center for Brain Disorder and Cognitive Science, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Affective and Social Cognitive Science, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
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- Center for Brain Disorder and Cognitive Science, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Affective and Social Cognitive Science, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
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- Zaoyang First People’s Hospital, Zaoyang, Hubei, China
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- Department of Psychology, Tianjin University of Technology and Education, Tianjin, China
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- Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Perchtold CM, Weiss EM, Rominger C, Fink A, Weber H, Papousek I. Cognitive reappraisal capacity mediates the relationship between prefrontal recruitment during reappraisal of anger-eliciting events and paranoia-proneness. Brain Cogn 2019; 132:108-117. [PMID: 30980988 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2019.04.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2018] [Revised: 03/26/2019] [Accepted: 04/02/2019] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Difficulties in emotion regulation, particularly in using adaptive regulation strategies such as cognitive reappraisal, are a commonly observed correlate of paranoia. While it has been suggested that poor implementation of cognitive reappraisal in dealing with aversive events precedes the onset of subclinical paranoid thinking, there is little empirical research on neural activation patterns during cognitive reappraisal efforts that might indicate vulnerability towards paranoid thinking. Prefrontal EEG alpha asymmetry changes were recorded while n = 57 participants were generating alternative appraisals of anger-eliciting events, and were linked to a behavioral measure of basic cognitive reappraisal capacity and self-reported paranoia proneness (assessed by personality facets of hostility and suspiciousness; Personality Inventory for DSM-5). Mediation analysis revealed that less left-lateralized activation at ventrolateral prefrontal sites during reappraisal efforts predicted a higher degree of paranoia proneness. This relationship was mediated through poorer cognitive reappraisal capacity. Matching previous evidence, findings suggest that inappropriate brain activation during reappraisal efforts impairs individuals' capacity to come up with effective alternative interpretations for anger-evoking situations, which may accentuate personality features related to increased paranoid thinking. The findings add to our understanding of neurally underpinned impairments in the capacity to generate cognitive reappraisals and their link to maladaptive personality and behavior.
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- Department of Psychology, University of Graz, Austria.
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- Department of Psychology, University of Greifswald, Germany.
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- Department of Psychology, University of Graz, Austria. https://psychologie.uni-graz.at/en/biological-psychology/team/
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Ahn JW, Ku Y, Kim HC. A Novel Wearable EEG and ECG Recording System for Stress Assessment. SENSORS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2019; 19:E1991. [PMID: 31035399 PMCID: PMC6539530 DOI: 10.3390/s19091991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2019] [Revised: 04/17/2019] [Accepted: 04/25/2019] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Suffering from continuous stress can lead to serious psychological and even physical disorders. Objective stress assessment methods using noninvasive physiological responses such as heart rate variability (HRV) and electroencephalograms (EEG) have therefore been proposed for effective stress management. In this study, a novel wearable device that can measure electrocardiograms (ECG) and EEG simultaneously was designed to enable continuous stress monitoring in daily life. The developed system is easily worn by hanging from both ears, is lightweight (i.e., 42.5 g), and exhibits an excellent noise performance of 0.12 μVrms. Significant time and frequency features of HRV and EEG were found in two different stressors, namely the Stroop color word and mental arithmetic tests, using 14 young subjects. Stressor situations were classified using various HRV and EEG feature selections and a support vector machine technique. The five-fold cross-validation results obtained when using both EEG and HRV features showed the best performance with an accuracy of 87.5%, which demonstrated the requirement for simultaneous HRV and EEG measurements.
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- Joong Woo Ahn
- Seoul National University Hospital Biomedical Research Institute, Seoul 03082, Korea.
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Medicine, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 35015, Korea.
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- Interdisciplinary Program in Bioengineering, Graduate School, Seoul National University, Seoul 03080, Korea.
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul 03080, Korea.
- Institute of Medical & Biological Engineering, Medical Research Center, Seoul National University, Seoul 03080, Korea.
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Popkirov S, Flasbeck V, Schlegel U, Juckel G, Brüne M. Childhood trauma and dissociative symptoms predict frontal EEG asymmetry in borderline personality disorder. J Trauma Dissociation 2019. [PMID: 29543578 DOI: 10.1080/15299732.2018.1451808] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Frontal EEG asymmetry (FEA) has been studied as both state and trait parameter in emotion regulation and affective disorders. Its significance in borderline personality disorder (BPD) remains largely unknown. Twenty-six BPD patients and 26 healthy controls underwent EEG before and after mood induction using aversive images. A slight but significant shift from left- to right-sided asymmetry over prefrontal electrodes occurred across all subjects. In BPD baseline FEA over F7 and F8 correlated significantly with childhood trauma and functional neurological "conversion" symptoms as assessed by respective questionnaires. Regression analysis revealed a predictive role of both childhood trauma and dissociative neurological symptoms. FEA offers a relatively stable electrophysiological correlate of BPD psychopathology that responds only minimally to acute mood changes. Future studies should address whether this psychophysiological association is universal for trauma- and dissociation-related disorders, and whether it is responsive to psychotherapy.
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- Stoyan Popkirov
- a Department of Neurology , University Hospital Knappschaftskrankenhaus Bochum, Ruhr-University Bochum , Bochum , Germany
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- b Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Preventive Medicine , LWL University Hospital Bochum, Ruhr-University , Bochum , Germany
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- a Department of Neurology , University Hospital Knappschaftskrankenhaus Bochum, Ruhr-University Bochum , Bochum , Germany
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- b Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Preventive Medicine , LWL University Hospital Bochum, Ruhr-University , Bochum , Germany
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- b Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Preventive Medicine , LWL University Hospital Bochum, Ruhr-University , Bochum , Germany
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Selection of Neural Oscillatory Features for Human Stress Classification with Single Channel EEG Headset. BIOMED RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2018; 2018:1049257. [PMID: 30671443 PMCID: PMC6323535 DOI: 10.1155/2018/1049257] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2018] [Accepted: 12/06/2018] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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A study on classification of psychological stress in humans using electroencephalography (EEG) is presented. The stress is classified using a correlation-based feature subset selection method that efficiently reduces the feature vector length. In this study, twenty-eight participants are involved by filling in the perceived stress scale-10 (PSS-10) questionnaire and their EEG is also recorded in closed eye condition to measure the baseline stress. The recorded data is labelled on the basis of the stress level that is indicated by the participant's PSS score. The feature selection method has shown that, among the EEG oscillations, low beta, high beta, and low gamma are the most significant neural oscillations for classifying human stress. The proposed method not only reduces the time to build a classification model but also improves the classification accuracy up to 78.57% using a single channel wearable EEG device.
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Andersen E, Campbell A, Girdler S, Duffy K, Belger A. Acute stress modifies oscillatory indices of affective processing: Insight on the pathophysiology of schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Clin Neurophysiol 2018; 130:214-223. [PMID: 30580244 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2018.10.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2018] [Revised: 09/28/2018] [Accepted: 10/24/2018] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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OBJECTIVE The current study evaluated the differential impact of acute psychosocial stress exposure on oscillatory correlates of affective processing in control participants and patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SCZ) to elucidate the stress-mediated pathway to psychopathology. METHODS EEG was recorded while 21 control participants and 21 patients with SCZ performed emotional framing tasks (assessing a key aspect of emotion regulation (ER)) before and after a laboratory stress challenge (Trier Social Stress Test). EEG spectral perturbations evoked in response to neutral and aversive stimuli (presented with positive or negative contextual cues) were extracted in theta (4-8 Hz) and beta (12-30 Hz) frequencies. RESULTS Patients demonstrated aberrant theta and beta oscillatory activity, with impaired frontal theta-mediated framing and beta-derived motivated attention processes relative to controls. Following stress exposure, controls exhibited impaired frontal theta-mediated emotional framing, similar to the oscillatory profile observed in patients before stress. CONCLUSIONS The acute stress-induced oscillatory changes observed in controls were persistently present in patients, indicating an inefficiency of fronto-limbic adaptation to stress exposure. SIGNIFICANCE Results provide novel insight on the electrophysiological correlates of arousal and affect regulation, which are core homogeneous symptom dimensions shared across neuropsychiatric disorders, and shed light on putative mechanisms in the translation of stress into psychopathology.
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- Elizabeth Andersen
- Department of Psychiatry, CB# 7160, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7160, USA.
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- Department of Psychiatry, CB# 7160, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7160, USA.
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- Department of Psychiatry, CB# 7160, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7160, USA.
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- Department of Psychiatry, CB# 7160, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7160, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, CB# 7160, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7160, USA; Brain Imaging and Analysis Center, CB# 3918, Duke University, Durham, NC 27710, USA.
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Dhindsa K, Gauder KD, Marszalek KA, Terpou B, Becker S. Progressive Thresholding: Shaping and Specificity in Automated Neurofeedback Training. IEEE Trans Neural Syst Rehabil Eng 2018; 26:2297-2305. [DOI: 10.1109/tnsre.2018.2878328] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Lin CT, Nascimben M, King JT, Wang YK. Task-related EEG and HRV entropy factors under different real-world fatigue scenarios. Neurocomputing 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2018.05.043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Emotional stress regulation: The role of relative frontal alpha asymmetry in shaping the stress response. Biol Psychol 2018; 138:231-239. [DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2018.08.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2017] [Revised: 08/07/2018] [Accepted: 08/07/2018] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Jebelli H, Mahdi Khalili M, Lee S. A Continuously Updated, Computationally Efficient Stress Recognition Framework Using Electroencephalogram (EEG) by Applying Online Multitask Learning Algorithms (OMTL). IEEE J Biomed Health Inform 2018; 23:1928-1939. [PMID: 30235150 DOI: 10.1109/jbhi.2018.2870963] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Recognizing the factors that cause stress is a crucial step toward early detection of stressors. In this regard, several studies make an effort to recognize individuals' stress using an Electroencephalogram (EEG). However, current EEG-based stress recognition frameworks have several drawbacks. First, they are mostly designed to recognize individuals' stress only in a controlled laboratory environment. Second, they do not take into account the changes in the EEG signals of different subjects under the same stressors. Third, most of the current stress recognition algorithms occur in an offline setting. To address these issues, this study proposes an EEG-based stress recognition framework that takes into account each subject's brainwave patterns to train the stress recognition classifier and continuously update its classifier based on new input signals in near real-time. The proposed framework first removes EEG signal artifacts, then extracts a broad range of EEG signal features, and finally applies different online multitask learning (OMTL) algorithms to recognize individuals' stress in near real time. The proposed framework was applied on the EEG collected in two environments-first on the EEG collected in a controlled lab environment using a wired-EEG and second on the EEG collected at in the field using a wearable EEG device. The OMTL-VonNeuman method resulted in the best prediction accuracy on both datasets (71.14% on the first dataset and 77.61% on second) among all tested algorithms. The proposed stress recognition framework continuously updates its classifier and therefore contributes to stress recognition for new stressful situations that are beyond the range of predefined stressful conditions in near real time both in a controlled lab environment and at real job sites.
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Xia L, Malik AS, Subhani AR. A physiological signal-based method for early mental-stress detection. Biomed Signal Process Control 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bspc.2018.06.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Herzog D, Farchi M, Gidron Y. The Relationship between Exposure to Missiles and PTSD Symptoms as a Function of Hemispheric Preference in Israelis. J Trauma Dissociation 2018; 19:59-74. [PMID: 28318433 DOI: 10.1080/15299732.2017.1304487] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Recent research proposes that left hemispheric lateralization (HL) may protect against the effects of life events on mental distress. This study extends these findings by examining the protective role of left HL in the relationship between war threat (missile exposure) and PTSD symptoms. A sample of 186 Israelis, exposed to missile attacks, completed brief scales of self-reported missile exposure, a subjective and a neuropsychological HL measure, and of PTSD symptoms. The sample was split into right HL and left HL individuals on both HL measures. Self-reported missile exposure was positively associated with PTSD symptoms in right HL, but not in left HL individuals on both HL measures. These results replicate, extend our previous results and suggest that left HL may even protect against the effects of severe life threatening events. Results are discussed in relation to neuropsychological and neurophysiological differences between the hemispheres.
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- b School of Social Work, Tel-Hai College , Upper Galilee , Israel
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- a Vrije Universteit Brussels , Brussels , Belgium.,c Scalab, Lille University, Oncolille , Lille , France
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Pavlova LP, Berlov DN, Kurismaa A. Dominant and opponent relations in cortical function: An EEG study of exam performance and stress. AIMS Neurosci 2017; 5:32-55. [PMID: 32341950 PMCID: PMC7181896 DOI: 10.3934/neuroscience.2018.1.32] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2017] [Accepted: 11/14/2017] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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This paper analyzes the opponent dynamics of human motivational and affective processes, as conceptualized by RS Solomon, from the position of AA Ukhtomsky's neurophysiological principle of the dominant and its applications in the field of human electroencephalographic analysis. As an experimental model, we investigate the dynamics of cortical activity in students submitting university final course oral examinations in naturalistic settings, and show that successful performance in these settings depends on the presence of specific types of cortical activation patterns, involving high indices of left-hemispheric and frontal cortical dominance, whereas the lack thereof predicts poor performance on the task, and seems to be associated with difficulties in the executive regulation of cognitive (intellectual) and motivational processes in these highly demanding and stressful conditions. Based on such knowledge, improved educational and therapeutic interventions can be suggested which take into account individual variability in the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying adaptation to motivationally and intellectually challenging, stressful tasks, such as oral university exams. Some implications of this research for opponent-process theory and its closer integration into current neuroscience research on acquired motivations are discussed.
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- Lucia P Pavlova
- Department of Higher Nervous Activity and Psychophysiology, Faculty of Biology, St. Petersburg State University, St.-Petersburg, Russia
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- Department of Anatomy and Physiology of Humans and Animals, Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, St.-Petersburg, Russia.,International Research Center of the Functional Materials and Devices of Optoelectronics and Electronics, ITMO University, Saint Petersburg, Russia
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- Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
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Deschepper R, Six S, Vandeweghe N, De Couck M, Gidron Y, Depoorter AM, Bilsen J. Linking numbers to perceptions and experiences: Why we need transdisciplinary mixed-methods combining neurophysiological and qualitative data. METHODOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS 2017. [DOI: 10.1177/2059799117703119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Today, more and more problems that scientists need to tackle are complex problems. Many examples of these can be found in the health sciences, medicine and ecology. Typical features of complex problems are that they cannot be studied by one discipline and that they need to take into account subjective data as well as objective data. Two promising responses to deal with complex problems are Transdisciplinary and Mixed Method approaches. However, there is still a lacuna to fill, with transdisciplinary studies bridging the social sciences and biomedical sciences. More specifically, we need more and better studies that combine qualitative data about subjective experiences, perception and so on with objective, quantitative, neurophysiological data. We believe that the combination of qualitative and neurophysiological data is a good example of what we would like to call transdisciplinary mixed methods. In this article, we aim to explore the opportunities of transdisciplinary mixed-methods studies in which qualitative and neurophysiological data are used. We give a brief overview of what is characteristic for this kind of studies and illustrate this with examples; we point out strengths and limitations and propose an agenda for the future. We conclude that transdisciplinary mixed-methods studies in which qualitative and neurophysiological data are used have the potential to improve our knowledge about complex problems. A main obstacle seems to be that most scientists from the biomedical sciences are not familiar with the (qualitative) methods from the social sciences and vice versa. To end this ‘clash of paradigms’™, we urgently need to cultivate transdisciplinary thinking.
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- Reginald Deschepper
- Mental Health and Wellbeing Research Group, Centre for Neuroscience, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
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- Mental Health and Wellbeing Research Group, Centre for Neuroscience, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
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- Mental Health and Wellbeing Research Group, Centre for Neuroscience, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
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- Scalab Unit, Université Lille 3, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France
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- Mental Health and Wellbeing Research Group, Centre for Neuroscience, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
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- Mental Health and Wellbeing Research Group, Centre for Neuroscience, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
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Park DH, Shin CJ. Asymmetrical Electroencephalographic Change of Human Brain During Sleep Onset Period. Psychiatry Investig 2017; 14:839-843. [PMID: 29209389 PMCID: PMC5714727 DOI: 10.4306/pi.2017.14.6.839] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2017] [Revised: 03/16/2017] [Accepted: 05/25/2017] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE Human cerebral hemisphere is known to function asymmetrically with daytime left hemisphere superiority in most right-handed persons. It may have relevance to the localization of specific function of the brain. This study attempted to reveal whether the functional cerebral asymmetry in the wakeful state is still maintained throughout the sleep onset period. METHODS Thirty-channel EEG was recorded in 61 healthy subjects. The EEG power spectra of each of the seven frequencies were compared between the two kinds of 30-second states; the wakeful stage and the late-sleep stage 1. RESULTS The asymmetrical indices of sleep stage 1 at several fronto-central leads were decreased in the delta, theta, alpha-2, and all beta bands. Conversely, at parts of parieto-occipital leads showed an increase in the indices of the theta, alphas, beta-1, and beta-2 bands. Any fronto-central leads did not show an increase in the index, and no parieto-occipital leads showed a decrease. CONCLUSION During the sleep onset period, power spectral asymmetry of the brain showed a different pattern from the wakeful stage. This asymmetrical pattern of EEG powers may suggest a reversal of the left hemispheric dominance during sleep.
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- Doo-Heum Park
- Department of Psychiatry, Konkuk University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Neuropsychiatry, College of Medicine and Medical Research Institute, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Republic of Korea
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