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REDUCED POWER AND PHASE-LOCKING VALUES WERE ACCOMPANIED BY THALAMUS, PUTAMEN AND HIPPOCAMPUS ATROPHY IN PARKINSON'S DISEASE WITH MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT: AN EVENT-RELATED OSCILLATION STUDY. Neurobiol Aging 2022; 121:88-106. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2022.10.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2022] [Revised: 09/30/2022] [Accepted: 10/05/2022] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Norton ES, MacNeill LA, Harriott EM, Allen N, Krogh-Jespersen S, Smyser CD, Rogers CE, Smyser TA, Luby J, Wakschlag L. EEG/ERP as a pragmatic method to expand the reach of infant-toddler neuroimaging in HBCD: Promises and challenges. Dev Cogn Neurosci 2021; 51:100988. [PMID: 34280739 PMCID: PMC8318873 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2021.100988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2021] [Revised: 06/14/2021] [Accepted: 07/12/2021] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
Abstract
Though electrophysiological measures (EEG and ERP) offer complementary information to MRI and a variety of advantages for studying infants and young children, these measures have not yet been included in large cohort studies of neurodevelopment. This review summarizes the types of EEG and ERP measures that could be used in the HEALthy Brain and Cognitive Development (HBCD) study, and the promises and challenges in doing so. First, we provide brief overview of the use of EEG/ERP for studying the developing brain and discuss exemplar findings, using resting or baseline EEG measures as well as the ERP mismatch negativity (MMN) as exemplars. We then discuss the promises of EEG/ERP such as feasibility, while balancing challenges such as ensuring good signal quality in diverse children with different hair types. We then describe an ongoing multi-site EEG data harmonization from our groups. We discuss the process of alignment and provide preliminary usability data for both resting state EEG data and auditory ERP MMN in diverse samples including over 300 infants and toddlers. Finally, we provide recommendations and considerations for the HBCD study and other studies of neurodevelopment.
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- Elizabeth S Norton
- Roxelyn and Richard Pepper Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, United States; Department of Medical Social Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, United States; Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences, Northwestern University, United States.
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- Department of Medical Social Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, United States; Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences, Northwestern University, United States
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- Department of Medical Social Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, United States
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- Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences, Northwestern University, United States; Department of Preventive Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, United States
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- Department of Medical Social Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, United States; Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences, Northwestern University, United States
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- Departments of Neurology, Pediatrics, and Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, United States; Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, United States
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- Department of Medical Social Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, United States; Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences, Northwestern University, United States
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Güntekin B, Uzunlar H, Çalışoğlu P, Eroğlu-Ada F, Yıldırım E, Aktürk T, Atay E, Ceran Ö. Theta and alpha oscillatory responses differentiate between six-to seven-year-old children and adults during successful visual and auditory memory encoding. Brain Res 2020; 1747:147042. [PMID: 32758480 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2020.147042] [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: 05/14/2020] [Revised: 07/23/2020] [Accepted: 07/30/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The healthy maturation of the brain is one of the intriguing topics that need to be investigated to understand human brain and child development. The present study aimed to investigate the development of memory processes both for auditory and visual memory using electroencephalography (EEG)-Brain Dynamics methodologies. Sixteen healthy children between the ages of 6 and 7 years and eighteen healthy young adults (age: 21.32 ± 3.28 years) were included in the study. EEG was recorded from 18 channels during the visual and auditory memory paradigms. Two different subtests of the WISC-IV IQ test were applied to all children. Event-related theta (4-7 Hz), alpha (8-13 Hz) power and phase-locking were analyzed. The young adults had higher memory performance than the children for both auditory and visual paradigms. The children had increased theta phase-locking and left alpha power in response to the remembered objects in comparison to the forgotten objects. The young adults had higher theta and alpha phase-locking than the children over the frontal and central locations (p < 0.05), and the children had higher parietal-occipital alpha phase-locking than the young adults. There was an increase in alpha power in children, whereas young adults had decreased post-stimulus alpha power in response to memory paradigms. The present study showed that frontocentral theta and alpha phase-locking had an essential role in brain maturation and successful memory performance. Event-related theta and alpha responses could be one of the important indicators of the mature and healthy brain, and these responses could change depending on the maturation state and age.
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- Bahar Güntekin
- Istanbul Medipol University, School of Medicine, Department of Biophysics, Istanbul, Turkey; Istanbul Medipol University, REMER, Clinical Electrophysiology, Neuroimaging and Neuromodulation Lab., Istanbul, Turkey.
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- Istanbul Medipol University, REMER, Clinical Electrophysiology, Neuroimaging and Neuromodulation Lab., Istanbul, Turkey; Istanbul Medipol University, Graduate School of Health Sciences, Department of Neuroscience, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Istanbul Medipol University, REMER, Clinical Electrophysiology, Neuroimaging and Neuromodulation Lab., Istanbul, Turkey; Istanbul Medipol University, Graduate School of Health Sciences, Department of Neuroscience, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Istanbul Medipol University, Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Psychology, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Istanbul Medipol University, REMER, Clinical Electrophysiology, Neuroimaging and Neuromodulation Lab., Istanbul, Turkey; Istanbul Medipol University, Graduate School of Health Sciences, Department of Neuroscience, Istanbul, Turkey; Istanbul Medipol University, Vocational School, Program of Electroneurophysiology, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Istanbul Medipol University, REMER, Clinical Electrophysiology, Neuroimaging and Neuromodulation Lab., Istanbul, Turkey; Istanbul Medipol University, Graduate School of Health Sciences, Department of Neuroscience, Istanbul, Turkey; Istanbul Medipol University, Vocational School, Program of Electroneurophysiology, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Istanbul Medipol University, School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Istanbul Medipol University, School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Istanbul, Turkey
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Guan Y, Keil A, Farrar MJ. Electrophysiological dynamics of false belief understanding and complementation syntax in school-aged children: Oscillatory brain activity and event-related potentials. J Exp Child Psychol 2020; 198:104905. [PMID: 32623146 DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2020.104905] [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: 08/18/2019] [Revised: 04/16/2020] [Accepted: 05/08/2020] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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A large body of research in developmental psychology has been devoted to the ongoing debate over which aspects of language are fundamental to false belief understanding (FBU). A key proposal from de Villiers and colleagues proposes the essential role of complementation syntax in FBU development. The current study, using scalp electroencephalography (EEG), addressed one opposing hypothesis purporting that complementation is redundant to FBU by characterizing the electrophysiological correlates of FBU and complementation syntax in school-age children. Time-frequency decomposition showed robust parieto-occipital low beta (12-16 Hz) power reduction in the belief versus complementation conditions. This divergence was also supported by event-related potentials (ERPs), with parieto-occipital late slow waves around 600 to 900 ms distinguishing belief and complementation conditions. The false belief condition generated the lowest behavioral response accuracy, suggesting that it is the most challenging condition. Together, the current findings provide evidence showing that complementation is not redundant to FBU.
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- Yao Guan
- Department of Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.
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- Department of Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
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Hämäläinen JA, Ortiz-Mantilla S, Benasich A. Change detection to tone pairs during the first year of life - Predictive longitudinal relationships for EEG-based source and time-frequency measures. Neuroimage 2019; 198:83-92. [PMID: 31102736 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.05.034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2019] [Revised: 04/25/2019] [Accepted: 05/13/2019] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Brain responses related to auditory processing show large changes throughout infancy and childhood with some evidence that the two hemispheres might mature at different rates. Differing rates of hemispheric maturation could be linked to the proposed functional specialization of the hemispheres in which the left auditory cortex engages in analysis of precise timing information whereas the right auditory cortex focuses on analysis of sound frequency. Here the auditory change detection process for rapidly presented tone-pairs was examined in a longitudinal sample of infants at the age of 6 and 12 months using EEG. The ERP response related to change detection of a frequency contrast, its estimated source strength in the auditory areas, as well as time-frequency indices showed developmental effects. ERP amplitudes, source strength, spectral power and inter-trial phase locking decreased across age. A differential lateralization pattern emerged between 6 and 12 months as shown by inter-trial phase locking at 2-3 Hz; specifically, a larger developmental change was observed in the right as compared to the left hemisphere. Predictive relationships for the change in source strength from 6 months to 12 months were found. Six-month predictors were source strength and phase locking values at low frequencies. The results show that the infant change detection response in rapidly presented tone pairs is mainly determined by low frequency power and phase-locking with a larger phase-locking response at 6 months predicting greater change at 12 months. The ability of the auditory system to respond systematically across stimuli is suggested as a marker of maturational change that leads to more automatic and fine-tuned cortical responses.
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- Jarmo A Hämäläinen
- Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Research, University of Jyväskylä, Finland; Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
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- Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers University-Newark, NJ, USA
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- Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers University-Newark, NJ, USA
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Meyers J, McCutcheon VV, Pandey AK, Kamarajan C, Subbie S, Chorlian D, Salvatore J, Pandey G, Almasy L, Anokhin A, Bauer L, Bender A, Dick DM, Edenberg HJ, Hesselbrock V, Kramer J, Kuperman S, Agrawal A, Bucholz K, Porjesz B. Early Sexual Trauma Exposure and Neural Response Inhibition in Adolescence and Young Adults: Trajectories of Frontal Theta Oscillations During a Go/No-Go Task. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 2019; 58:242-255.e2. [PMID: 30738551 PMCID: PMC6537865 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaac.2018.07.905] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2017] [Revised: 06/14/2018] [Accepted: 08/15/2018] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Trauma, particularly when experienced early in life, can alter neurophysiologic and behavioral development, thereby increasing risk for substance use disorders and related psychopathology. However, few studies have empirically examined trauma using well-characterized developmental samples that are followed longitudinally. METHOD The association of assaultive, non-assaultive, and sexual assaultive experiences before 10 years of age with developmental trajectories of brain function during response inhibition was examined by measuring electrophysiologic theta and delta oscillations during no-go and go conditions in an equal probability go/no-go task. Data were drawn from the Collaborative Study of the Genetics of Alcoholism (COGA) prospective cohort, composed of offspring who were aged 12 through 22 years at enrollment from high-risk and comparison families, with follow-ups at 2-year intervals since 2004. In addition, other important predictors of neurophysiologic functioning (eg, substance use, impulsivity, and parental alcohol use disorders) were investigated. Moreover, associations of neurophysiologic functioning with alcohol and cannabis use disorder symptom counts and externalizing and internalizing psychopathology were examined. RESULTS Individuals exposed to sexual assaultive trauma before 10 years of age had slower rates of change in developmental trajectories of no-go frontal theta during response inhibition. Importantly, effects remained significant after accounting for exposure to other traumatic exposures, such as parental history of alcohol use disorder and participants' substance use, but not measures of impulsivity. Further, slower rates of change in no-go frontal theta adolescent and young adult development were associated with increased risk for alcohol use disorder symptoms and internalizing psychopathology, but not for cannabis use disorder symptoms or externalizing psychopathology. CONCLUSION Childhood sexual assault is associated with atypical frontal neurophysiologic development during response inhibition. This could reflect alterations in frontal lobe development, synaptic pruning, and/or cortical maturation involving neural circuits for inhibitory control. These same areas could be associated with increased risk for young adult alcohol use disorder symptoms and internalizing psychopathology. These findings support the hypothesis that changes in neurocognitive development related to early sexual trauma exposure could increase the risk for mental health and substance use problems in young adulthood.
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- Jacquelyn Meyers
- State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY.
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- State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY
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- State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY
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- State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY
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- Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond.,Virginia Institute of Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics,Virginia Commonwealth University
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- State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY
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- University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington
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- State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY
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Wienke AS, Basar-Eroglu C, Schmiedt-Fehr C, Mathes B. Novelty N2-P3a Complex and Theta Oscillations Reflect Improving Neural Coordination Within Frontal Brain Networks During Adolescence. Front Behav Neurosci 2018; 12:218. [PMID: 30319369 PMCID: PMC6170662 DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00218] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2018] [Accepted: 08/29/2018] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Adolescents are easily distracted by novel items than adults. Maturation of the frontal cortex and its integration into widely distributed brain networks may result in diminishing distractibility with the transition into young adulthood. The aim of this study was to investigate maturational changes of brain activity during novelty processing. We hypothesized that during adolescence, timing and task-relevant modulation of frontal cortex network activity elicited by novelty processing improves, concurrently with increasing cognitive control abilities. A visual novelty oddball task was utilized in combination with EEG measurements to investigate brain maturation between 8–28 years of age (n = 84). Developmental changes of the frontal N2-P3a complex and concurrent theta oscillations (4–7 Hz) elicited by rare and unexpected novel stimuli were analyzed using regression models. N2 amplitude decreased, P3a amplitude increased, and latency of both components decreased with age. Pre-stimulus amplitude of theta oscillations decreased, while inter-trial consistency, task-related amplitude modulation and inter-site connectivity of frontal theta oscillations increased with age. Targets, intertwined in a stimulus train with regular non-targets and novels, were detected faster with increasing age. These results indicate that neural processing of novel stimuli became faster and the neural activation pattern more precise in timing and amplitude modulation. Better inter-site connectivity further implicates that frontal brain maturation leads to global neural reorganization and better integration of frontal brain activity within widely distributed brain networks. Faster target detection indicated that these maturational changes in neural activation during novelty processing may result in diminished distractibility and increased cognitive control to pursue the task.
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- Annika Susann Wienke
- Institute of Psychology and Cognition Research & Center of Cognitive Science, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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- Institute of Psychology and Cognition Research & Center of Cognitive Science, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany.,Izmir University of Economy, Izmir, Turkey
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- Institute of Psychology and Cognition Research & Center of Cognitive Science, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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- Institute of Psychology and Cognition Research & Center of Cognitive Science, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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Kamarajan C, Pandey AK, Chorlian DB, Manz N, Stimus AT, Edenberg HJ, Wetherill L, Schuckit M, Wang JC, Kuperman S, Kramer J, Tischfield JA, Porjesz B. A KCNJ6 gene polymorphism modulates theta oscillations during reward processing. Int J Psychophysiol 2017; 115:13-23. [PMID: 27993610 PMCID: PMC5392377 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2016.12.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2015] [Revised: 12/09/2016] [Accepted: 12/15/2016] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Event related oscillations (EROs) are heritable measures of neurocognitive function that have served as useful phenotype in genetic research. A recent family genome-wide association study (GWAS) by the Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism (COGA) found that theta EROs during visual target detection were associated at genome-wide levels with several single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), including a synonymous SNP, rs702859, in the KCNJ6 gene that encodes GIRK2, a G-protein inward rectifying potassium channel that regulates excitability of neuronal networks. The present study examined the effect of the KCNJ6 SNP (rs702859), previously associated with theta ERO to targets in a visual oddball task, on theta EROs during reward processing in a monetary gambling task. The participants were 1601 adolescent and young adult offspring within the age-range of 17-25years (800 males and 801 females) from high-dense alcoholism families as well as control families of the COGA prospective study. Theta ERO power (3.5-7.5Hz, 200-500ms post-stimulus) was compared across genotype groups. ERO theta power at central and parietal regions increased as a function of the minor allele (A) dose in the genotype (AA>AG>GG) in both loss and gain conditions. These findings indicate that variations in the KCNJ6 SNP influence magnitude of theta oscillations at posterior loci during the evaluation of loss and gain, reflecting a genetic influence on neuronal circuits involved in reward-processing. Increased theta power as a function of minor allele dose suggests more efficient cognitive processing in those carrying the minor allele of the KCNJ6 SNPs. Future studies are needed to determine the implications of these genetic effects on posterior theta EROs as possible "protective" factors, or as indices of delays in brain maturation (i.e., lack of frontalization).
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- Chella Kamarajan
- Henri Begleiter Neurodynamics Lab, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
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- Henri Begleiter Neurodynamics Lab, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA
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- Henri Begleiter Neurodynamics Lab, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA
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- Henri Begleiter Neurodynamics Lab, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA
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- Henri Begleiter Neurodynamics Lab, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA
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- Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
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- University of California San Diego Medical Center, San Diego, CA, USA
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- Henri Begleiter Neurodynamics Lab, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA
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Sannita WG. Higher Brain Function and the Laws of Thermodynamics. J PSYCHOPHYSIOL 2017. [DOI: 10.1027/0269-8803/a000192] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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- Walter G. Sannita
- Department of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Genetics, Mother and Child Health, University of Genova, Genova, Italy
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Mathes B, Khalaidovski K, Wienke AS, Schmiedt-Fehr C, Basar-Eroglu C. Maturation of the P3 and concurrent oscillatory processes during adolescence. Clin Neurophysiol 2016; 127:2599-609. [PMID: 27291879 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2016.04.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2015] [Revised: 04/12/2016] [Accepted: 04/23/2016] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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OBJECTIVE During adolescence event-related modulations of the neural response may increase. For slow event-related components, such as the P3, this developmental change may be masked due to increased amplitude levels of ongoing delta and theta oscillations in adolescents. METHODS In a cross-sectional study design, EEG was measured in 51 participants between 13 and 24years. A visual oddball paradigm was used to elicit the P3. Our analysis focused on fronto-parietal activations within the P3 time-window and the concurrent time-frequency characteristics in the delta (∼0.5-4Hz) and theta (∼4-7Hz) band. RESULTS The parietal P3 amplitude was similar across the investigated age range, while the amplitude at frontal regions increased with age. The pre-stimulus amplitudes of delta and theta oscillations declined with age, while post-stimulus amplitude enhancement and inter-trial phase coherence increased. These changes affected fronto-parietal electrode sites. CONCLUSIONS The parietal P3 maximum seemed comparable for adolescents and young adults. Detailed analysis revealed that within the P3 time-window brain maturation during adolescence may lead to reduced spontaneous slow-wave oscillations, increased amplitude modulation and time precision of event-related oscillations, and altered P3 scalp topography. SIGNIFICANCE Time-frequency analyses may help to distinguish selective neurodevelopmental changes within the P3 time window.
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- Birgit Mathes
- University of Bremen, Institute of Psychology and Cognition Research, Bremen, Germany; Centre for Cognitive Science, Bremen, Germany.
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- University of Bremen, Institute of Psychology and Cognition Research, Bremen, Germany; Centre for Cognitive Science, Bremen, Germany
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- University of Bremen, Institute of Psychology and Cognition Research, Bremen, Germany; Centre for Cognitive Science, Bremen, Germany
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- University of Bremen, Institute of Psychology and Cognition Research, Bremen, Germany; Centre for Cognitive Science, Bremen, Germany
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- University of Bremen, Institute of Psychology and Cognition Research, Bremen, Germany; Centre for Cognitive Science, Bremen, Germany
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Kamarajan C, Pandey AK, Chorlian DB, Manz N, Stimus AT, Anokhin AP, Bauer LO, Kuperman S, Kramer J, Bucholz KK, Schuckit MA, Hesselbrock VM, Porjesz B. Deficient Event-Related Theta Oscillations in Individuals at Risk for Alcoholism: A Study of Reward Processing and Impulsivity Features. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0142659. [PMID: 26580209 PMCID: PMC4651365 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0142659] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2015] [Accepted: 10/26/2015] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Individuals at high risk to develop alcoholism often manifest neurocognitive deficits as well as increased impulsivity. Event-related oscillations (EROs) have been used to effectively measure brain (dys)function during cognitive tasks in individuals with alcoholism and related disorders and in those at risk to develop these disorders. The current study examines ERO theta power during reward processing as well as impulsivity in adolescent and young adult subjects at high risk for alcoholism. METHODS EROs were recorded during a monetary gambling task (MGT) in 12-25 years old participants (N = 1821; males = 48%) from high risk alcoholic families (HR, N = 1534) and comparison low risk community families (LR, N = 287) from the Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism (COGA). Impulsivity scores and prevalence of externalizing diagnoses were also compared between LR and HR groups. RESULTS HR offspring showed lower theta power and decreased current source density (CSD) activity than LR offspring during loss and gain conditions. Younger males had higher theta power than younger females in both groups, while the older HR females showed more theta power than older HR males. Younger subjects showed higher theta power than older subjects in each comparison. Differences in topography (i.e., frontalization) between groups were also observed. Further, HR subjects across gender had higher impulsivity scores and increased prevalence of externalizing disorders compared to LR subjects. CONCLUSIONS As theta power during reward processing is found to be lower not only in alcoholics, but also in HR subjects, it is proposed that reduced reward-related theta power, in addition to impulsivity and externalizing features, may be related in a predisposition to develop alcoholism and related disorders.
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- Chella Kamarajan
- SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, United States of America
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- SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, United States of America
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- SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, United States of America
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- SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, United States of America
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- SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, United States of America
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- Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, United States of America
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- University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT, United States of America
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- University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States of America
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- Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, United States of America
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- University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States of America
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- SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, United States of America
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Bojorges-Valdez E, Echeverría JC, Yanez-Suarez O. Evaluation of the continuous detection of mental calculation episodes as a BCI control input. Comput Biol Med 2015; 64:155-62. [DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2015.06.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2014] [Revised: 06/16/2015] [Accepted: 06/17/2015] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Liu ZX, Woltering S, Lewis MD. Developmental change in EEG theta activity in the medial prefrontal cortex during response control. Neuroimage 2013; 85 Pt 2:873-87. [PMID: 24007804 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.08.054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2013] [Revised: 08/13/2013] [Accepted: 08/22/2013] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Cognitive control functions continue to improve from infancy until early adulthood, allowing flexible adaptation to a complex environment. However, it remains controversial how this development in cognitive capabilities is mediated by changes in cortical activity: both age-related increases and decreases of mediofrontal neural activity have been observed and interpreted as neural underpinnings of this functional development. To better understand this developmental process, we examined EEG theta activity in the mediofrontal region using a Go/No-go response control task. We found that both pre-stimulus baseline theta-power and theta-power during the response control task, without baseline-correction, decreased with age. Conversely, when task-related theta-power was baseline corrected (using a ratio method), it exhibited a positive developmental trajectory. The age-related theta-power increase was source-localized to the anterior cingulate cortex. This increase in theta activity also partially mediated age-related improvements in response control and was greatest in a condition that demanded greater effort. Theta activity in older children also showed greater temporal reliability across trials as measured by inter-trial phase-coherence. Interestingly, directly subtracting baseline activity from task-related activity did not yield significant developmental effects, which highlights the necessity of separating and contrasting the pre-stimulus baseline with task-related processing in the understanding of neurodevelopmental changes.
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- Zhong-Xu Liu
- Applied Psychology and Human Development Department (OISE), University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Rotman Research Institute of Baycrest Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
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A review of alpha activity in integrative brain function: Fundamental physiology, sensory coding, cognition and pathology. Int J Psychophysiol 2012; 86:1-24. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2012.07.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 189] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2012] [Revised: 07/02/2012] [Accepted: 07/08/2012] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Age-related changes of task-specific brain activity in normal aging. Neurosci Lett 2012; 507:78-83. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2011.11.057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2011] [Revised: 11/29/2011] [Accepted: 11/29/2011] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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- Michael Falkenstein
- Editor-in-Chief
- Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Dortmund, Germany
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Falkenstein M, Wild-Wall N. Abstracts of the International Conference “Aging & Cognition”. J PSYCHOPHYSIOL 2011. [DOI: 10.1027/0269-8803/a000054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Nanova P, Kolev V, Yordanova J. Developmental gender differences in the synchronization of auditory event-related oscillations. Clin Neurophysiol 2010; 122:907-15. [PMID: 20933464 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2010.09.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2010] [Revised: 08/10/2010] [Accepted: 09/10/2010] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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OBJECTIVES The aim of the present study was to explore the neurophysiologic origins of gender differences in auditory processing mechanisms of 7-10 year-old children by means of event-related oscillations. It was tested if the developmental changes in synchronization and magnitude of oscillations in different processing conditions depended on gender. METHODS Eighteen girls and 18 boys aged 7-10 years were pair wise matched for age and were divided into two age groups. Auditory event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded in passive, sensorimotor and working memory conditions. Phase-locking and single-trial magnitude of ERPs were analyzed in the delta (0.5-4 Hz), theta (4-7 Hz), slow (7-10 Hz), and fast (10-14 Hz) alpha frequency bands to test the effects of gender, age, and processing condition. RESULTS The phase-locking of auditory delta, theta, and slow alpha oscillations increased with development only in girls, independently of task processing. Only for the theta phase-locking was this effect additionally affected by the motor-related task. No changes in the magnitude of oscillations accompanied these gender differences in synchronization except for parietal delta responses that also increased with development only in girls. CONCLUSIONS The results demonstrate that gender differences in auditory ERPs basically originate from a stronger functional synchronization of oscillatory responses generated during stimulus processing. SIGNIFICANCE The study provides evidence that the functional maturation of oscillatory auditory networks reflected by a progressive developmental increase of synchronization, is accelerated in girls relative to boys between 7 and 10 years of age.
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- Plamenka Nanova
- Institute of Neurobiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Acad. G. Bonchev str., bl. 23, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
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Yordanova J, Kolev V, Rothenberger A. Functional Neuroelectric Oscillations Along the Lifespan. J PSYCHOPHYSIOL 2009. [DOI: 10.1027/0269-8803.23.4.153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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- Juliana Yordanova
- Institute of Neurobiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Institute of Neurobiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
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