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Wadhera T, Kakkar D. Conditional entropy approach to analyze cognitive dynamics in autism spectrum disorder. Neurol Res 2020; 42:869-878. [PMID: 32628095 DOI: 10.1080/01616412.2020.1788844] [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] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Preliminary evidence has documented functional connectivity during the cognitive task in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). However, evidence of effective neural connectivity with respect to information flow between different brain regions during complex tasks is missing. The present paper aims to provide insights into the cognition-based neural dynamics reflecting information exchange in brain network under cognitive load in ASD. METHODS Twenty-two individuals with ASD (8-18 years) and 18 Typically Developing (TD; 6-17 years) individuals participated in the cognitive task of differentiating risky from neutral stimuli. The Conditional Entropy (CE) technique is applied upon task-activated Electroencephalogram (EEG) to measure the causal influence of the activity of brain's one Region of interest (ROI) over another. RESULTS A higher CE in frontal ROI and left hemisphere reflected atypical brain complexity in ASD. The absence of causal effect, poor Coupling Strength (CS; measured using CE) and hemisphere lateralization is responsible for lower cognition in ASD. However, the persistent information exchange during the task reflects the existence of certain alternative paths when other direct paths remained disconnected due to cognitive impairment. The Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier showed that CE can identify the atypical information exchange with an accuracy of 96.89% and area under curve = 0.987. DISCUSSION The statistical results reflect a significant change in the information flow between different ROIs in ASD. A correlation of CS and behavioral domain suggests that the cognitive decline could be predicted from the connectivity patterns. Thus, CS could be a potential biomarker to identify cognitive status at a higher discrimination rate in ASD.
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- Tanu Wadhera
- Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Dr B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology , Jalandhar, India
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- Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Dr B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology , Jalandhar, India
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Ge P, Cao H. Synchronization of Rulkov neuron networks coupled by excitatory and inhibitory chemical synapses. CHAOS (WOODBURY, N.Y.) 2019; 29:023129. [PMID: 30823734 DOI: 10.1063/1.5053908] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2018] [Accepted: 02/01/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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This paper takes into account a neuron network model in which the excitatory and the inhibitory Rulkov neurons interact each other through excitatory and inhibitory chemical coupling, respectively. Firstly, for two or more identical or non-identical Rulkov neurons, the existence conditions of the synchronization manifold of the fixed points are investigated, which have received less attention over the past decades. Secondly, the master stability equation of the arbitrarily connected neuron network under the existence conditions of the synchronization manifold is discussed. Thirdly, taking three identical Rulkov neurons as an example, some new results are presented: (1) topological structures that can make the synchronization manifold exist are given, (2) the stability of synchronization when different parameters change is discussed, and (3) the roles of the control parameters, the ratio, as well as the size of the coupling strength and sigmoid function are analyzed. Finally, for the chemical coupling between two non-identical neurons, the transversal system is given and the effect of two coupling strengths on synchronization is analyzed.
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- Penghe Ge
- Department of Mathematics, School of Science, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Mathematics, School of Science, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, People's Republic of China
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Environmental factors linked to depression vulnerability are associated with altered cerebellar resting-state synchronization. Sci Rep 2016; 6:37384. [PMID: 27892484 PMCID: PMC5124945 DOI: 10.1038/srep37384] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2016] [Accepted: 10/28/2016] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Hosting nearly eighty percent of all human neurons, the cerebellum is functionally connected to large regions of the brain. Accumulating data suggest that some cerebellar resting-state alterations may constitute a key candidate mechanism for depressive psychopathology. While there is some evidence linking cerebellar function and depression, two topics remain largely unexplored. First, the genetic or environmental roots of this putative association have not been elicited. Secondly, while different mathematical representations of resting-state fMRI patterns can embed diverse information of relevance for health and disease, many of them have not been studied in detail regarding the cerebellum and depression. Here, high-resolution fMRI scans were examined to estimate functional connectivity patterns across twenty-six cerebellar regions in a sample of 48 identical twins (24 pairs) informative for depression liability. A network-based statistic approach was employed to analyze cerebellar functional networks built using three methods: the conventional approach of filtered BOLD fMRI time-series, and two analytic components of this oscillatory activity (amplitude envelope and instantaneous phase). The findings indicate that some environmental factors may lead to depression vulnerability through alterations of the neural oscillatory activity of the cerebellum during resting-state. These effects may be observed particularly when exploring the amplitude envelope of fMRI oscillations.
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Córdova-Palomera A, Tornador C, Falcón C, Bargalló N, Nenadic I, Deco G, Fañanás L. Altered amygdalar resting-state connectivity in depression is explained by both genes and environment. Hum Brain Mapp 2015; 36:3761-76. [PMID: 26096943 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22876] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2015] [Revised: 05/05/2015] [Accepted: 06/02/2015] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Recent findings indicate that alterations of the amygdalar resting-state fMRI connectivity play an important role in the etiology of depression. While both depression and resting-state brain activity are shaped by genes and environment, the relative contribution of genetic and environmental factors mediating the relationship between amygdalar resting-state connectivity and depression remain largely unexplored. Likewise, novel neuroimaging research indicates that different mathematical representations of resting-state fMRI activity patterns are able to embed distinct information relevant to brain health and disease. The present study analyzed the influence of genes and environment on amygdalar resting-state fMRI connectivity, in relation to depression risk. High-resolution resting-state fMRI scans were analyzed to estimate functional connectivity patterns in a sample of 48 twins (24 monozygotic pairs) informative for depressive psychopathology (6 concordant, 8 discordant and 10 healthy control pairs). A graph-theoretical framework was employed to construct brain networks using two methods: (i) the conventional approach of filtered BOLD fMRI time-series and (ii) analytic components of this fMRI activity. Results using both methods indicate that depression risk is increased by environmental factors altering amygdalar connectivity. When analyzing the analytic components of the BOLD fMRI time-series, genetic factors altering the amygdala neural activity at rest show an important contribution to depression risk. Overall, these findings show that both genes and environment modify different patterns the amygdala resting-state connectivity to increase depression risk. The genetic relationship between amygdalar connectivity and depression may be better elicited by examining analytic components of the brain resting-state BOLD fMRI signals.
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- Aldo Córdova-Palomera
- Unidad de Antropología, Departamento de Biología Animal, Facultad de Biología and Instituto de Biomedicina (IBUB), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,Centro de Investigaciones Biomédicas en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Madrid, Spain
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- Center for Brain and Cognition, Computational Neuroscience Group, Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
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- Medical Image Core facility, the Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red en Bioingeniería, Biomedicina y Nanomedicina (CIBER-BBN), Zaragoza, Spain
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- Centro de Investigaciones Biomédicas en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Madrid, Spain.,Medical Image Core facility, the Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain.,Centro de Diagnóstico por Imagen, Hospital Clínico, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Jena University Hospital, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany
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- Center for Brain and Cognition, Computational Neuroscience Group, Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.,Institució Catalana de la Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
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- Unidad de Antropología, Departamento de Biología Animal, Facultad de Biología and Instituto de Biomedicina (IBUB), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,Centro de Investigaciones Biomédicas en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Madrid, Spain
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Bian J, Xie M, Topaloglu U, Cisler JM. A probabilistic model of functional brain connectivity network for discovering novel biomarkers. AMIA JOINT SUMMITS ON TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCE PROCEEDINGS. AMIA JOINT SUMMITS ON TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCE 2013; 2013:21-5. [PMID: 24303289 PMCID: PMC3814494] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Graph theoretical analyses of functional brain connectivity networks have been limited to a static view of brain activities over the entire timeseries. In this paper, we propose a new probabilistic model of the functional brain connectivity network, the strong-edge model, which incorporates the temporal fluctuation of neurodynamics. We also introduce a systematic approach to identifying biomarkers based on network characteristics that quantitatively describe the organization of the brain network. The evaluation results of the proposed strong-edge network model is quite promising. The biomarkers derived from the strong-edge model have achieved much higher prediction accuracy of 89% (ROCAUC: 0.96) in distinguishing depression subjects from healthy controls in comparison with the conventional network model (accuracy: 76%, ROC-AUC: 0.87). These novel biomarkers have the high potential of being applied clinically in diagnosing neurological and psychiatric brain diseases with noninvasive neuroimaging technologies.
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- Jiang Bian
- University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR
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- University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR
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- University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR
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- University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR
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