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Rutkowski TM, Abe MS, Komendzinski T, Sugimoto H, Narebski S, Otake-Matsuura M. Machine learning approach for early onset dementia neurobiomarker using EEG network topology features. Front Hum Neurosci 2023; 17:1155194. [PMID: 37397858 PMCID: PMC10311997 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2023.1155194] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2023] [Accepted: 05/22/2023] [Indexed: 07/04/2023] Open
Abstract
Introduction Modern neurotechnology research employing state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms within the so-called "AI for social good" domain contributes to improving the well-being of individuals with a disability. Using digital health technologies, home-based self-diagnostics, or cognitive decline managing approaches with neuro-biomarker feedback may be helpful for older adults to remain independent and improve their wellbeing. We report research results on early-onset dementia neuro-biomarkers to scrutinize cognitive-behavioral intervention management and digital non-pharmacological therapies. Methods We present an empirical task in the EEG-based passive brain-computer interface application framework to assess working memory decline for forecasting a mild cognitive impairment. The EEG responses are analyzed in a framework of a network neuroscience technique applied to EEG time series for evaluation and to confirm the initial hypothesis of possible ML application modeling mild cognitive impairment prediction. Results We report findings from a pilot study group in Poland for a cognitive decline prediction. We utilize two emotional working memory tasks by analyzing EEG responses to facial emotions reproduced in short videos. A reminiscent interior image oddball task is also employed to validate the proposed methodology further. Discussion The proposed three experimental tasks in the current pilot study showcase the critical utilization of artificial intelligence for early-onset dementia prognosis in older adults.
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- Tomasz M. Rutkowski
- RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project, Tokyo, Japan
- The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland
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- RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project, Tokyo, Japan
- Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan
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- RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project, Tokyo, Japan
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Gervais C, Boucher LP, Villar GM, Lee U, Duclos C. A scoping review for building a criticality-based conceptual framework of altered states of consciousness. Front Syst Neurosci 2023; 17:1085902. [PMID: 37304151 PMCID: PMC10248073 DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2023.1085902] [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: 10/31/2022] [Accepted: 05/08/2023] [Indexed: 06/13/2023] Open
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The healthy conscious brain is thought to operate near a critical state, reflecting optimal information processing and high susceptibility to external stimuli. Conversely, deviations from the critical state are hypothesized to give rise to altered states of consciousness (ASC). Measures of criticality could therefore be an effective way of establishing the conscious state of an individual. Furthermore, characterizing the direction of a deviation from criticality may enable the development of treatment strategies for pathological ASC. The aim of this scoping review is to assess the current evidence supporting the criticality hypothesis, and the use of criticality as a conceptual framework for ASC. Using the PRISMA guidelines, Web of Science and PubMed were searched from inception to February 7th 2022 to find articles relating to measures of criticality across ASC. N = 427 independent papers were initially found on the subject. N = 378 were excluded because they were either: not related to criticality; not related to consciousness; not presenting results from a primary study; presenting model data. N = 49 independent papers were included in the present research, separated in 7 sub-categories of ASC: disorders of consciousness (DOC) (n = 5); sleep (n = 13); anesthesia (n = 18); epilepsy (n = 12); psychedelics and shamanic state of consciousness (n = 4); delirium (n = 1); meditative state (n = 2). Each category included articles suggesting a deviation of the critical state. While most studies were only able to identify a deviation from criticality without being certain of its direction, the preliminary consensus arising from the literature is that non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep reflects a subcritical state, epileptic seizures reflect a supercritical state, and psychedelics are closer to the critical state than normal consciousness. This scoping review suggests that, though the literature is limited and methodologically inhomogeneous, ASC are characterized by a deviation from criticality, though its direction is not clearly reported in a majority of studies. Criticality could become, with more extensive research, an effective and objective way to characterize ASC, and help identify therapeutic avenues to improve criticality in pathological brain states. Furthermore, we suggest how anesthesia and psychedelics could potentially be used as neuromodulation techniques to restore criticality in DOC.
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- Charles Gervais
- Department of Psychology, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
- Centre for Advanced Research in Sleep Medicine & Integrated Trauma Centre, Centre Intégré Universitaire de Santé et de Services Sociaux du Nord-de-l’île-de-Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Centre for Advanced Research in Sleep Medicine & Integrated Trauma Centre, Centre Intégré Universitaire de Santé et de Services Sociaux du Nord-de-l’île-de-Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
- Department of Neuroscience, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
- Centre for Advanced Research in Sleep Medicine & Integrated Trauma Centre, Centre Intégré Universitaire de Santé et de Services Sociaux du Nord-de-l’île-de-Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
- Center for Consciousness Science, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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- Centre for Advanced Research in Sleep Medicine & Integrated Trauma Centre, Centre Intégré Universitaire de Santé et de Services Sociaux du Nord-de-l’île-de-Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
- Department of Neuroscience, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
- CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars Program, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Robustness and Flexibility of Neural Function through Dynamical Criticality. ENTROPY 2022; 24:e24050591. [PMID: 35626476 PMCID: PMC9141846 DOI: 10.3390/e24050591] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2022] [Revised: 04/14/2022] [Accepted: 04/20/2022] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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In theoretical biology, robustness refers to the ability of a biological system to function properly even under perturbation of basic parameters (e.g., temperature or pH), which in mathematical models is reflected in not needing to fine-tune basic parameter constants; flexibility refers to the ability of a system to switch functions or behaviors easily and effortlessly. While there are extensive explorations of the concept of robustness and what it requires mathematically, understanding flexibility has proven more elusive, as well as also elucidating the apparent opposition between what is required mathematically for models to implement either. In this paper we address a number of arguments in theoretical neuroscience showing that both robustness and flexibility can be attained by systems that poise themselves at the onset of a large number of dynamical bifurcations, or dynamical criticality, and how such poising can have a profound influence on integration of information processing and function. Finally, we examine critical map lattices, which are coupled map lattices where the coupling is dynamically critical in the sense of having purely imaginary eigenvalues. We show that these map lattices provide an explicit connection between dynamical criticality in the sense we have used and “edge of chaos” criticality.
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Berner R, Sawicki J, Thiele M, Löser T, Schöll E. Critical Parameters in Dynamic Network Modeling of Sepsis. FRONTIERS IN NETWORK PHYSIOLOGY 2022; 2:904480. [PMID: 36926088 PMCID: PMC10012967 DOI: 10.3389/fnetp.2022.904480] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2022] [Accepted: 05/03/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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In this work, we propose a dynamical systems perspective on the modeling of sepsis and its organ-damaging consequences. We develop a functional two-layer network model for sepsis based upon the interaction of parenchymal cells and immune cells via cytokines, and the coevolutionary dynamics of parenchymal, immune cells, and cytokines. By means of the simple paradigmatic model of phase oscillators in a two-layer system, we analyze the emergence of organ threatening interactions between the dysregulated immune system and the parenchyma. We demonstrate that the complex cellular cooperation between parenchyma and stroma (immune layer) either in the physiological or in the pathological case can be related to dynamical patterns of the network. In this way we explain sepsis by the dysregulation of the healthy homeostatic state (frequency synchronized) leading to a pathological state (desynchronized or multifrequency cluster) in the parenchyma. We provide insight into the complex stabilizing and destabilizing interplay of parenchyma and stroma by determining critical interaction parameters. The coupled dynamics of parenchymal cells (metabolism) and nonspecific immune cells (response of the innate immune system) is represented by nodes of a duplex layer. Cytokine interaction is modeled by adaptive coupling weights between nodes representing immune cells (with fast adaptation timescale) and parenchymal cells (slow adaptation timescale), and between pairs of parenchymal and immune cells in the duplex network (fixed bidirectional coupling). The proposed model allows for a functional description of organ dysfunction in sepsis and the recurrence risk in a plausible pathophysiological context.
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- Rico Berner
- Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany.,Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW, Basel, Switzerland
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany.,Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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Sawicki J, Hartmann L, Bader R, Schöll E. Modelling the perception of music in brain network dynamics. FRONTIERS IN NETWORK PHYSIOLOGY 2022; 2:910920. [PMID: 36926090 PMCID: PMC10013054 DOI: 10.3389/fnetp.2022.910920] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2022] [Accepted: 07/11/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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We analyze the influence of music in a network of FitzHugh-Nagumo oscillators with empirical structural connectivity measured in healthy human subjects. We report an increase of coherence between the global dynamics in our network and the input signal induced by a specific music song. We show that the level of coherence depends crucially on the frequency band. We compare our results with experimental data, which also describe global neural synchronization between different brain regions in the gamma-band range in a time-dependent manner correlated with musical large-scale form, showing increased synchronization just before transitions between different parts in a musical piece (musical high-level events). The results also suggest a separation in musical form-related brain synchronization between high brain frequencies, associated with neocortical activity, and low frequencies in the range of dance movements, associated with interactivity between cortical and subcortical regions.
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- Jakub Sawicki
- Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany.,Institut für Musikpädagogik, Universität der Künste Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW, Basel, Switzerland.,Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Systematic Musicology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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- Institute of Systematic Musicology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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- Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany.,Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Germany
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