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Ramsay IS, Pokorny VJ, Lynn PA, Klein SD, Sponheim SR. Limited Consistency and Strength of Neural Oscillations During Sustained Visual Attention in Schizophrenia. BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY. COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE AND NEUROIMAGING 2024; 9:337-345. [PMID: 36775194 PMCID: PMC10412733 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2023.02.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2022] [Revised: 12/22/2022] [Accepted: 02/02/2023] [Indexed: 02/12/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Neural oscillations support perception, attention, and higher-order decision making. Aberrations in the strength or consistency of these oscillations in response to stimuli may underlie impaired visual perception and attention in schizophrenia. Here, we examined the phase and power of alpha oscillations (8-12 Hz) as well as aspects of beta and theta frequency oscillations during a demanding visual sustained attention task. METHODS Patients with schizophrenia (n = 74) and healthy control participants (n = 68) completed the degraded stimulus continuous performance task during electroencephalography. We used time-frequency analysis to evaluate the consistency (intertrial phase coherence) of the alpha cycle shortly after stimulus presentation (50-250 ms). For oscillation strength, we examined event-related desynchronization in a later window associated with decision making (360-700 ms). RESULTS Alpha intertrial phase coherence was reduced in schizophrenia, and similar reductions were observed in theta (4-7 Hz) and beta (13-20 Hz), suggesting a lack of responsiveness in slower oscillations to visual stimuli. Alpha and beta event-related desynchronization were also reduced in schizophrenia and associated with worse task performance, increased symptoms, and poorer cognition, suggesting that limited responsiveness of oscillations is related to impairments in the disorder. Individuals with lower intertrial phase coherence had slower resting-state alpha rhythms consistent with dysfunctional oscillations persisting across default and task-related brain states. CONCLUSIONS In schizophrenia, abnormalities in the phase consistency and strength of slower oscillations during visual perception are related to symptoms and cognitive functioning. Altered visual perception and impaired attention in the disorder may be the consequence of aberrant slower oscillations that fail to dynamically reset and modulate in response to stimuli.
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- Ian S Ramsay
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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- Department of Psychology University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Department of Psychology University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Department of Psychology University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Minneapolis Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Küçük KM, Wienke AS, Mathes B, Başar-Eroğlu C. Multistable perception elicits compensatory alpha activity in older adults. Front Aging Neurosci 2023; 15:1136124. [PMID: 37304078 PMCID: PMC10249475 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2023.1136124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2023] [Accepted: 05/08/2023] [Indexed: 06/13/2023] Open
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Multistable stimuli lead to the perception of two or more alternative perceptual experiences that spontaneously reverse from one to the other. This property allows researchers to study perceptual processes that endogenously generate and integrate perceptual information. These endogenous processes appear to be slowed down around the age of 55 where participants report significantly lower perceptual reversals. This study aimed to identify neural correlates of this aging effect during multistable perception utilizing a multistable version of the stroboscopic alternative motion paradigm (SAM: endogenous task) and a control condition (exogenous task). Specifically, age-related differences in perceptual destabilization and maintenance processes were examined through alpha responses. Electroencephalography (EEG) of 12 older and 12 young adults were recorded during SAM and control tasks. Alpha band activity (8-14 Hz) was obtained by wavelet-transformation of the EEG signal and analyzed for each experimental condition. Endogenous reversals induced gradual decrease in posterior alpha activity in young adults which is a replication of previous studies' findings. Alpha desynchronization was shifted to anterior areas and prevalent across the cortex except the occipital area for older adults. Alpha responses did not differ between the groups in the control condition. These findings point to recruitment of compensatory alpha networks for maintenance of endogenously generated percepts. Increased number of networks responsible for maintenance might have extended the neural satiation duration and led to decreased reversal rates in older adults.
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- Bremen Initiative to Foster Early Childhood Development (BRISE), University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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- Bremen Initiative to Foster Early Childhood Development (BRISE), University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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Tanner J, Keefer E, Cheng J, Helms Tillery S. Dynamic peripheral nerve stimulation can produce cortical activation similar to punctate mechanical stimuli. Front Hum Neurosci 2023; 17:1083307. [PMID: 37033904 PMCID: PMC10079952 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2023.1083307] [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: 10/28/2022] [Accepted: 02/28/2023] [Indexed: 04/11/2023] Open
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During contact, phasic and tonic responses provide feedback that is used for task performance and perceptual processes. These disparate temporal dynamics are carried in peripheral nerves, and produce overlapping signals in cortex. Using longitudinal intrafascicular electrodes inserted into the median nerve of a nonhuman primate, we delivered composite stimulation consisting of onset and release bursts to capture rapidly adapting responses and sustained stochastic stimulation to capture the ongoing response of slowly adapting receptors. To measure the stimulation's effectiveness in producing natural responses, we monitored the local field potential in somatosensory cortex. We compared the cortical responses to peripheral nerve stimulation and vibrotactile/punctate stimulation of the fingertip, with particular focus on gamma band (30-65 Hz) responses. We found that vibrotactile stimulation produces consistently phase locked gamma throughout the duration of the stimulation. By contrast, punctate stimulation responses were phase locked at the onset and release of stimulation, but activity maintained through the stimulation was not phase locked. Using these responses as guideposts for assessing the response to the peripheral nerve stimulation, we found that constant frequency stimulation produced continual phase locking, whereas composite stimulation produced gamma enhancement throughout the stimulus, phase locked only at the onset and release of the stimulus. We describe this response as an "Appropriate Response in the gamma band" (ARγ), a trend seen in other sensory systems. Our demonstration is the first shown for intracortical somatosensory local field potentials. We argue that this stimulation paradigm produces a more biomimetic response in somatosensory cortex and is more likely to produce naturalistic sensations for readily usable neuroprosthetic feedback.
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- Justin Tanner
- School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
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- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States
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- School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
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Küçük KM, Mathes B, Schmiedt-Fehr C, Başar-Eroğlu C. Aging attenuated theta response during multistable perception. Psychophysiology 2023; 60:e14286. [PMID: 36912398 DOI: 10.1111/psyp.14286] [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: 11/04/2021] [Revised: 01/24/2023] [Accepted: 02/16/2023] [Indexed: 03/14/2023]
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Multistable stimuli are physically unchanging, but elicit spontaneous perceptual reversals between multiple internally generated perceptual alternatives. Perceptual reversal rates seem to decrease in older adults; however, there is no literature on the electrophysiological correlates of this performance decrease. Here, we aimed to identify age-related changes in theta activity that relate to decreased reversal rates of older adults. Electroencephalography (EEG) of young (n = 15) and older adults (n = 15) was recorded during presentation of stroboscopic alternative motion (SAM) and a control stimulus. Time-frequency amplitudes were extracted in 4-8 Hz via Morlet wavelet convolution. Older adults had lower SAM reversals as well as decreased accuracy, increased reaction time (RT) and increased RT variability in the control task. In older adults, reversal-related frontal theta response was diminished, yet parietal theta was intact. In the parietal area, the relationship between theta response and reversal rates was robust, but in the frontal area, was dependent on age-related variance. Result indicated that, in older adults, top-down facilitation of perceptual reversals was impaired. This appears to result in a predominantly bottom-up resolution of perceptual multistability. Age-related degradation of sensory areas in this bottom-up-driven resolution process might have slowed reversals. This study presents the first electrophysiological correlates of age-related impairment in multistable perceptual integration.
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- Bremen Initiative to Foster Early Childhood Development (BRISE), University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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Başar-Eroğlu C, Küçük KM, Rürup L, Schmiedt-Fehr C, Mathes B. Oscillatory Activities in Multiple Frequency Bands in Patients with Schizophrenia During Motion Perception. Clin EEG Neurosci 2022:15500594221141825. [PMID: 36437602 DOI: 10.1177/15500594221141825] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Patients with schizophrenia show impairment in binding stimulus features into coherent objects, which are reflected in disturbed oscillatory activities. This study aimed to identify disturbances in multiple oscillatory bands during perceptual organization of motion perception in patients with schizophrenia. EEG was recorded from healthy controls and patients with schizophrenia during continuous presentation of a motion stimulus which induces reversals between two exogenously generated perceptions. This stimulus was used to investigate differences in motion binding processes between healthy controls and patients with schizophrenia. EEG signals were transformed into frequency components by means of the Morlet wavelet transformation in order to analyse inter-trial coherences (ITC) in the delta (1-4 Hz), theta (4-7 Hz), alpha (8-12 Hz), and gamma (28-48 Hz) frequency bands during exogenous motion binding. Patients showed decreased delta-ITC in occipital and theta-ITC in central and parietal areas, while no significant differences were found for neither alpha nor gamma-ITCs. The present study provides one of the first insights on the oscillatory synchronizations related with the motion perception in schizophrenia. The ITC differences revealed alterations in the consistency of large-scale integration and transfer functions in patients with schizophrenia.
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- C Başar-Eroğlu
- Department of Psychology, 52973İzmir University of Economics, Izmir, Turkey
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- Department of Psychology, 52973İzmir University of Economics, Izmir, Turkey
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- 62546Hospital Bremen-East, Bremen, Germany
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- Institute of Psychology, 9168University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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- Bremen Initiative to Foster Early Childhood Development, 9168University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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Thörn CW, Kafetzopoulos V, Kocsis B. Differential Effect of Dopamine D4 Receptor Activation on Low-Frequency Oscillations in the Prefrontal Cortex and Hippocampus May Bias the Bidirectional Prefrontal–Hippocampal Coupling. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms231911705. [PMID: 36233007 PMCID: PMC9569525 DOI: 10.3390/ijms231911705] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2022] [Revised: 09/18/2022] [Accepted: 09/30/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Dopamine D4 receptor (D4R) mechanisms are implicated in psychiatric diseases characterized by cognitive deficits, including schizophrenia, ADHD, and autism. The cellular mechanisms are poorly understood, but impaired neuronal synchronization in cortical networks was proposed to contribute to these deficits. In animal experiments, D4R activation was shown to generate aberrant increased gamma oscillations and to reduce performance on cognitive tasks requiring functional prefrontal cortex (PFC) and hippocampus (HPC) networks. While fast oscillations in the gamma range are important for local synchronization within neuronal ensembles, long-range synchronization between distant structures is achieved by slow rhythms in the delta, theta, alpha ranges. The characteristics of slow oscillations vary between structures during cognitive tasks. HPC activity is dominated by theta rhythm, whereas PFC generates unique oscillations in the 2–4 Hz range. In order to investigate the role of D4R on slow rhythms, cortical activity was recorded in rats under urethane anesthesia in which slow oscillations can be elicited in a controlled manner without behavioral confounds, by electrical stimulation of the brainstem reticular formation. The local field potential segments during stimulations were extracted and subjected to fast Fourier transform to obtain power density spectra. The selective D4R agonist A-412997 (5 and 10 mg/kg) and antagonists L-745870 (5 and 10 mg/kg) were injected systemically and the peak power in the two frequency ranges were compared before and after the injection. We found that D4R compounds significantly changed the activity of both HPC and PFC, but the direction of the effect was opposite in the two structures. D4R agonist enhanced PFC slow rhythm (delta, 2–4 Hz) and suppressed HPC theta, whereas the antagonist had an opposite effect. Analogous changes of the two slow rhythms were also found in the thalamic nucleus reuniens, which has connections to both forebrain structures. Slow oscillations play a key role in interregional cortical coupling; delta and theta oscillations were shown in particular, to entrain neuronal firing and to modulate gamma activity in interconnected forebrain structures with a relative HPC theta dominance over PFC. Thus, the results of this study indicate that D4R activation may introduce an abnormal bias in the bidirectional PFC–HPC coupling which can be reversed by D4R antagonists.
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- Department Psychiatry at BIDMC, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Medical School, University of Ioannina, 45110 Ioannina, Greece
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- Department Psychiatry at BIDMC, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +617-331-1782
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de Bustamante Simas ML, Maranhão ACT, Lacerda AM, Teixeira FS, Freire CHR, da Silva Raposo CC, de Menezes GMM. Pictorial size perception in schizophrenia. PSICOLOGIA-REFLEXAO E CRITICA 2021; 34:36. [PMID: 34806134 PMCID: PMC8606485 DOI: 10.1186/s41155-021-00201-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2021] [Accepted: 11/06/2021] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
Abstract
In this study, we compared visual pictorial size perception between healthy volunteers (CG) and an experimental group (EG) of people diagnosed with schizophrenia. We have been using paintings by Salvador Dalí and Rorschach plates to estimate visual pictorial size perception. In this transversal, ex post facto, and quasi-experimental study, we observed differences between EG and CG. Schizophrenic in-patients perceived sizes about 1.3-fold greater than healthy volunteers (p=0.006), implying that pictorial size perception is altered in some way in schizophrenia. Considering the present and previous results, this measurement of diameter size of first pictorial perception may be a useful estimate of some aspects of perceptual alterations that may be associated with psychotic symptoms in prodromal and acute schizophrenic episodes and other related mental states. Eventually, this may help in preventing people from evolving to acute episodes.
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- Maria Lúcia de Bustamante Simas
- Laboratório de Percepção Visual, Programa da Pós Graduação em Psicologia, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Percepção Visual, Programa da Pós Graduação em Psicologia, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Percepção Visual, Programa da Pós Graduação em Psicologia, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Percepção Visual, Programa da Pós Graduação em Psicologia, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Percepção Visual, Programa da Pós Graduação em Psicologia, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Percepção Visual, Programa da Pós Graduação em Psicologia, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Percepção Visual, Programa da Pós Graduação em Psicologia, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
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Ghiani A, Maniglia M, Battaglini L, Melcher D, Ronconi L. Binding Mechanisms in Visual Perception and Their Link With Neural Oscillations: A Review of Evidence From tACS. Front Psychol 2021; 12:643677. [PMID: 33828509 PMCID: PMC8019716 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.643677] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2020] [Accepted: 02/22/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Neurophysiological studies in humans employing magneto- (MEG) and electro- (EEG) encephalography increasingly suggest that oscillatory rhythmic activity of the brain may be a core mechanism for binding sensory information across space, time, and object features to generate a unified perceptual representation. To distinguish whether oscillatory activity is causally related to binding processes or whether, on the contrary, it is a mere epiphenomenon, one possibility is to employ neuromodulatory techniques such as transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS). tACS has seen a rising interest due to its ability to modulate brain oscillations in a frequency-dependent manner. In the present review, we critically summarize current tACS evidence for a causal role of oscillatory activity in spatial, temporal, and feature binding in the context of visual perception. For temporal binding, the emerging picture supports a causal link with the power and the frequency of occipital alpha rhythms (8-12 Hz); however, there is no consistent evidence on the causal role of the phase of occipital tACS. For feature binding, the only study available showed a modulation by occipital alpha tACS. The majority of studies that successfully modulated oscillatory activity and behavioral performance in spatial binding targeted parietal areas, with the main rhythms causally linked being the theta (~7 Hz) and beta (~18 Hz) frequency bands. On the other hand, spatio-temporal binding has been directly modulated by parieto-occipital gamma (~40-60 Hz) and alpha (10 Hz) tACS, suggesting a potential role of cross-frequency coupling when binding across space and time. Nonetheless, negative or partial results have also been observed, suggesting methodological limitations that should be addressed in future research. Overall, the emerging picture seems to support a causal role of brain oscillations in binding processes and, consequently, a certain degree of plasticity for shaping binding mechanisms in visual perception, which, if proved to have long lasting effects, can find applications in different clinical populations.
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- Andrea Ghiani
- Department of General Psychology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States
- Department of Neurobiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States
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- Department of General Psychology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
- Neuro Vis.U.S. Laboratory, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
- Department of Physics and Astronomy "Galileo Galilei", University of Padua, Padua, Italy
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- Center for Mind/Brain Sciences and Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Trento, Trento, Italy
- Psychology Program, Division of Science, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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- School of Psychology, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy
- Division of Neuroscience, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico, San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy
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Dynamic Changes of Brain Networks during Working Memory Tasks in Schizophrenia. Neuroscience 2020; 453:187-205. [PMID: 33249224 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2020.11.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2020] [Revised: 11/03/2020] [Accepted: 11/04/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Electroencephalograph (EEG) signals and graph theory measures have been widely used to characterize the brain functional networks of healthy individuals and patients by calculating the correlations between different electrodes over an entire time series. Although EEG signals have a high temporal resolution and can provide relatively stable results, the process of constructing and analyzing brain functional networks is inevitably complicated by high time complexity. Our goal in this research was to distinguish the brain function networks of schizophrenia patients from those of healthy participants during working memory tasks. Consequently, we utilized a method involving microstates, which are each characterized by a unique topography of electric potentials over an entire channel array, to reduce the dimension of the EEG signals during working memory tasks and then compared and analyzed the brain functional networks using the microstates time series (MTS) and original time series (OTS) of the schizophrenia patients and healthy individuals. We found that the right frontal and parietal-occipital regions neurons of the schizophrenia patients were less active than those of the healthy participants during working memory tasks. Notably, compared with OTS, the time needed to construct the brain functional networks was significantly reduced by using MTS. In conclusion, our results show that, like OTS, MTS can well distinguish the brain functional network of schizophrenia patients from those of healthy individuals during working memory tasks while greatly decreasing time complexity. MTS can thus provide a method for characterizing the original time series for the construction and analysis of EEG brain functional networks.
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