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Wiesner-Friedman C, Brinkman NE, Wheaton E, Nagarkar M, Hart C, Keely SP, Varughese E, Garland J, Klaver P, Turner C, Barton J, Serre M, Jahne M. Characterizing Spatial Information Loss for Wastewater Surveillance Using crAssphage: Effect of Decay, Temperature, and Population Mobility. Environ Sci Technol 2023; 57:20802-20812. [PMID: 38015885 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.3c05587] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2023]
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Populations contribute information about their health status to wastewater. Characterizing how that information degrades in transit to wastewater sampling locations (e.g., wastewater treatment plants and pumping stations) is critical to interpret wastewater responses. In this work, we statistically estimate the loss of information about fecal contributions to wastewater from spatially distributed populations at the census block group resolution. This was accomplished with a hydrologically and hydraulically influenced spatial statistical approach applied to crAssphage (Carjivirus communis) load measured from the influent of four wastewater treatment plants in Hamilton County, Ohio. We find that we would expect to observe a 90% loss of information about fecal contributions from a given census block group over a travel time of 10.3 h. This work demonstrates that a challenge to interpreting wastewater responses (e.g., during wastewater surveillance) is distinguishing between a distal but large cluster of contributions and a near but small contribution. This work demonstrates new modeling approaches to improve measurement interpretation depending on sewer network and wastewater characteristics (e.g., geospatial layout, temperature variability, population distribution, and mobility). This modeling can be integrated into standard wastewater surveillance methods and help to optimize sewer sampling locations to ensure that different populations (e.g., vulnerable and susceptible) are appropriately represented.
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- Corinne Wiesner-Friedman
- Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, 26 West Martin Luther King Drive, Cincinnati, Ohio 45268, United States
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- Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 26 West Martin Luther King Drive, Cincinnati, Ohio 45268, United States
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- Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 26 West Martin Luther King Drive, Cincinnati, Ohio 45268, United States
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- Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 26 West Martin Luther King Drive, Cincinnati, Ohio 45268, United States
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- Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 26 West Martin Luther King Drive, Cincinnati, Ohio 45268, United States
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- Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 26 West Martin Luther King Drive, Cincinnati, Ohio 45268, United States
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- Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 26 West Martin Luther King Drive, Cincinnati, Ohio 45268, United States
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- Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 26 West Martin Luther King Drive, Cincinnati, Ohio 45268, United States
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- LimnoTech, 501 Avis Drive, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48108, United States
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- LimnoTech, 501 Avis Drive, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48108, United States
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- Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati, 1081 Woodrow Street, Cincinnati, Ohio 45204, United States
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- Gillings School of Global Public Health, Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, United States
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- Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 26 West Martin Luther King Drive, Cincinnati, Ohio 45268, United States
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Klaver P, Rohlfing KJ. Challenges in developmental psychology, a focus on Sustainable Development. Front Psychol 2022; 13:1086458. [DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1086458] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2022] [Accepted: 11/03/2022] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Boran E, Hilfiker P, Stieglitz L, Sarnthein J, Klaver P. Persistent neuronal firing in the medial temporal lobe supports performance and workload of visual working memory in humans. Neuroimage 2022; 254:119123. [PMID: 35321857 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2021] [Revised: 03/18/2022] [Accepted: 03/19/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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The involvement of the medial temporal lobe (MTL) in working memory is controversially discussed. Recent findings suggest that persistent neural firing in the hippocampus during maintenance in verbal working memory is associated with workload. Here, we recorded single neuron firing in 13 epilepsy patients (7 male) while they performed a visual working memory task. The number of coloured squares in the stimulus set determined the workload of the trial. Performance was almost perfect for low workload (1 and 2 squares) and dropped at high workload (4 and 6 squares), suggesting that high workload exceeded working memory capacity. We identified maintenance neurons in MTL neurons that showed persistent firing during the maintenance period. More maintenance neurons were found in the hippocampus for trials with correct compared to incorrect performance. Maintenance neurons increased and decreased firing in the hippocampus and increased firing in the entorhinal cortex for high compared to low workload. Population firing predicted workload particularly during the maintenance period. Prediction accuracy of workload based on single-trial activity during maintenance was strongest for neurons in the entorhinal cortex and hippocampus. The data suggest that persistent neural firing in the MTL reflects a domain-general process of maintenance supporting performance and workload of multiple items in working memory below and beyond working memory capacity. Persistent neural firing during maintenance in the entorhinal cortex may be associated with its preference to process visual-spatial arrays.
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- Ece Boran
- Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Zurich (USZ), University of Zurich, 8091 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Zurich (USZ), University of Zurich, 8091 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Zurich (USZ), University of Zurich, 8091 Zurich, Switzerland; Neuroscience Center Zurich, ETH Zurich, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland.
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- University of Teacher Education in Special Needs, 8050 Zurich, Switzerland; Institute of Psychology, University of Zurich, 8050 Zurich, Switzerland; School of Psychology, University of Surrey, GU2 7XH Guildford, UK.
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Boran E, Fedele T, Grunwald T, Hilfiker P, Stieglitz L, Sarnthein J, Klaver P. FV21 Medial temporal lobe firing reflects human working memory workload and capacity. Clin Neurophysiol 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2019.12.111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Boran E, Fedele T, Klaver P, Hilfiker P, Stieglitz L, Grunwald T, Sarnthein J. Persistent hippocampal neural firing and hippocampal-cortical coupling predict verbal working memory load. Sci Adv 2019; 5:eaav3687. [PMID: 30944858 PMCID: PMC6436923 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aav3687] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2018] [Accepted: 02/06/2019] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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The maintenance of items in working memory relies on persistent neural activity in a widespread network of brain areas. To investigate the influence of load on working memory, we asked human subjects to maintain sets of letters in memory while we recorded single neurons and intracranial encephalography (EEG) in the medial temporal lobe and scalp EEG. Along the periods of a trial, hippocampal neural firing differentiated between success and error trials during stimulus encoding, predicted workload during memory maintenance, and predicted the subjects' behavior during retrieval. During maintenance, neuronal firing was synchronized with intracranial hippocampal EEG. On the network level, synchronization between hippocampal and scalp EEG in the theta-alpha frequency range showed workload dependent oscillatory coupling between hippocampus and cortex. Thus, we found that persistent neural activity in the hippocampus participated in working memory processing that is specific to memory maintenance, load sensitive and synchronized to the cortex.
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- Ece Boran
- Klinik für Neurochirurgie, UniversitätsSpital und Universität Zürich, 8091 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Klinik für Neurochirurgie, UniversitätsSpital und Universität Zürich, 8091 Zürich, Switzerland
- Zentrum für Neurowissenschaften Zürich, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
- Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russian Federation
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- Zentrum für Neurowissenschaften Zürich, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
- School of Psychology, University of Surrey, Surrey GU2 7XH, UK
- University of Applied Sciences in Special Needs Education, 8050 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Schweizerisches Epilepsie-Zentrum, 8008 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Klinik für Neurochirurgie, UniversitätsSpital und Universität Zürich, 8091 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Schweizerisches Epilepsie-Zentrum, 8008 Zürich, Switzerland
- Klinik für Neurologie, UniversitätsSpital Zürich, 8091 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Klinik für Neurochirurgie, UniversitätsSpital und Universität Zürich, 8091 Zürich, Switzerland
- Zentrum für Neurowissenschaften Zürich, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
- Corresponding author.
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Bollmann S, Ghisleni C, Poil SS, Martin E, Ball J, Eich-Höchli D, Klaver P, O'Gorman RL, Michels L, Brandeis D. Age-dependent and -independent changes in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) during spatial working memory performance. World J Biol Psychiatry 2017; 18:279-290. [PMID: 26515661 DOI: 10.3109/15622975.2015.1112034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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OBJECTIVES Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has been associated with spatial working memory as well as frontostriatal core deficits. However, it is still unclear how the link between these frontostriatal deficits and working memory function in ADHD differs in children and adults. This study examined spatial working memory in adults and children with ADHD, focussing on identifying regions demonstrating age-invariant or age-dependent abnormalities. METHODS We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to examine a group of 26 children and 35 adults to study load manipulated spatial working memory in patients and controls. RESULTS In comparison to healthy controls, patients demonstrated reduced positive parietal and frontostriatal load effects, i.e., less increase in brain activity from low to high load, despite similar task performance. In addition, younger patients showed negative load effects, i.e., a decrease in brain activity from low to high load, in medial prefrontal regions. Load effect differences between ADHD and controls that differed between age groups were found predominantly in prefrontal regions. Age-invariant load effect differences occurred predominantly in frontostriatal regions. CONCLUSIONS The age-dependent deviations support the role of prefrontal maturation and compensation in ADHD, while the age-invariant alterations observed in frontostriatal regions provide further evidence that these regions reflect a core pathophysiology in ADHD.
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- Steffen Bollmann
- a Center for MR-Research, University Children's Hospital , Zurich , Switzerland.,b Neuroscience Center Zurich, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich , Zurich , Switzerland.,c Zurich Center for Integrative Human Physiology (ZIHP), University of Zurich , Zurich , Switzerland.,d Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University and ETH Zurich , Zurich , Switzerland.,e Centre for Advanced Imaging, University of Queensland , Brisbane , Australia
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- a Center for MR-Research, University Children's Hospital , Zurich , Switzerland.,b Neuroscience Center Zurich, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich , Zurich , Switzerland.,c Zurich Center for Integrative Human Physiology (ZIHP), University of Zurich , Zurich , Switzerland.,f Department of Psychology, University of Zurich , Zurich , Switzerland
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- a Center for MR-Research, University Children's Hospital , Zurich , Switzerland.,c Zurich Center for Integrative Human Physiology (ZIHP), University of Zurich , Zurich , Switzerland
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- a Center for MR-Research, University Children's Hospital , Zurich , Switzerland.,b Neuroscience Center Zurich, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich , Zurich , Switzerland
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- g Department of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Zurich , Zurich , Switzerland
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- a Center for MR-Research, University Children's Hospital , Zurich , Switzerland.,b Neuroscience Center Zurich, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich , Zurich , Switzerland.,c Zurich Center for Integrative Human Physiology (ZIHP), University of Zurich , Zurich , Switzerland.,f Department of Psychology, University of Zurich , Zurich , Switzerland.,i School of Psychology, University of Surrey , Guildford , UK
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- a Center for MR-Research, University Children's Hospital , Zurich , Switzerland.,c Zurich Center for Integrative Human Physiology (ZIHP), University of Zurich , Zurich , Switzerland.,j Pediatric Research Center, University Children's Hospital , Zurich , Switzerland
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- a Center for MR-Research, University Children's Hospital , Zurich , Switzerland.,k Department of Neuroradiology , University Hospital of Zurich , Zurich , Switzerland
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- b Neuroscience Center Zurich, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich , Zurich , Switzerland.,c Zurich Center for Integrative Human Physiology (ZIHP), University of Zurich , Zurich , Switzerland.,g Department of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Zurich , Zurich , Switzerland.,l Central Institute of Mental Health Mannheim, Medical Faculty Mannheim/Heidelberg University , Mannheim , Germany
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Klaver P, Knirsch W, Wurmitzer K, von Allmen DY. Children and Adolescents Show Altered Visual Working Memory Related Brain Activity More Than One Decade After Arterial Switch Operation for D-Transposition of the Great Arteries. Dev Neuropsychol 2016; 41:261-267. [PMID: 27918206 DOI: 10.1080/87565641.2016.1243115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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This pilot study investigated neural correlates of visual working memory using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in seven patients more than one decade after neonatal arterial switch operation for surgical correction of d-transposition of the great arteries (d-TGA, aged 10-18 years, 1 female). Compared with age and sex matched healthy controls patients showed similar visual working memory performance and a smaller increase in brain activity in the posterior parietal cortex with higher visual working memory load. These findings suggest that patients exhibit altered neural activity within a network that is known to support visuospatial memory and cognition.
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- Peter Klaver
- a School of Psychology , University of Surrey , Guildford , United Kingdom.,b Center for MR Research , University Children's Hospital , Zurich , Switzerland.,c Institute of Psychology , University of Zurich , Zurich , Switzerland
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- d Division of Cardiology , University Children's Hospital , Zurich , Switzerland.,e Child Research Center (CRC) , University Children's Hospital , Zurich , Switzerland
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- f Evidence-based Insurance Medicine , University Hospital Basel , Basel , Switzerland
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Geiger MJ, O'Gorman Tuura R, Klaver P. Inter-hemispheric connectivity in the fusiform gyrus supports memory consolidation for faces. Eur J Neurosci 2016; 43:1137-45. [DOI: 10.1111/ejn.13197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2015] [Revised: 12/23/2015] [Accepted: 01/22/2016] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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- Center for MR Research and Children's Research Center; University Children's Hospital; Zurich Switzerland
- Zurich Center for Integrative Human Physiology (ZIHP); University of Zurich; Zurich Switzerland
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- Center for MR Research and Children's Research Center; University Children's Hospital; Zurich Switzerland
- School of Psychology; University of Surrey; Guildford Surrey UK
- Department of Psychology; Division of Psychopathology and Clinical Intervention; University of Zurich; Zurich Switzerland
- Neuroscience Center Zurich; University of Zurich and ETH Zurich; Zurich Switzerland
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Bollmann S, Ghisleni C, Poil SS, Martin E, Ball J, Eich-Höchli D, Edden RAE, Klaver P, Michels L, Brandeis D, O'Gorman RL. Developmental changes in gamma-aminobutyric acid levels in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Transl Psychiatry 2015; 5:e589. [PMID: 26101852 PMCID: PMC4490289 DOI: 10.1038/tp.2015.79] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2014] [Revised: 04/27/2015] [Accepted: 05/04/2015] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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While the neurobiological basis and developmental course of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have not yet been fully established, an imbalance between inhibitory/excitatory neurotransmitters is thought to have an important role in the pathophysiology of ADHD. This study examined the changes in cerebral levels of GABA+, glutamate and glutamine in children and adults with ADHD using edited magnetic resonance spectroscopy. We studied 89 participants (16 children with ADHD, 19 control children, 16 adults with ADHD and 38 control adults) in a subcortical voxel (children and adults) and a frontal voxel (adults only). ADHD adults showed increased GABA+ levels relative to controls (P = 0.048), while ADHD children showed no difference in GABA+ in the subcortical voxel (P > 0.1), resulting in a significant age by disorder interaction (P = 0.026). Co-varying for age in an analysis of covariance model resulted in a nonsignificant age by disorder interaction (P = 0.06). Glutamine levels were increased in children with ADHD (P = 0.041), but there was no significant difference in adults (P > 0.1). Glutamate showed no difference between controls and ADHD patients but demonstrated a strong effect of age across both groups (P < 0.001). In conclusion, patients with ADHD show altered levels of GABA+ in a subcortical voxel which change with development. Further, we found increased glutamine levels in children with ADHD, but this difference normalized in adults. These observed imbalances in neurotransmitter levels are associated with ADHD symptomatology and lend new insight in the developmental trajectory and pathophysiology of ADHD.
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- S Bollmann
- Center for MR-Research, University Children's Hospital Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland,Neuroscience Center Zurich, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland,Zurich Center for Integrative Human Physiology, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland,Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland,Centre for Advanced Imaging, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Center for MR-Research, University Children's Hospital Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland,Neuroscience Center Zurich, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland,Zurich Center for Integrative Human Physiology, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Center for MR-Research, University Children's Hospital Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland,Zurich Center for Integrative Human Physiology, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Center for MR-Research, University Children's Hospital Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland,Neuroscience Center Zurich, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Psychiatric University Hospital, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA,F. M. Kirby Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Center for MR-Research, University Children's Hospital Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland,Neuroscience Center Zurich, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland,Zurich Center for Integrative Human Physiology, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland,Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Neuroradiology, University Hospital of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Neuroscience Center Zurich, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland,Zurich Center for Integrative Human Physiology, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland,Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland,Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health Mannheim, Medical Faculty Mannheim/Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
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- Center for MR-Research, University Children's Hospital Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland,Zurich Center for Integrative Human Physiology, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland,Pediatric Research Center, University Children's Hospital Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland,Center for MR-Research, University Children's Hospital Zurich, Steinwiesstrasse 75, Zürich CH 8032, Switzerland. E-mail:
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Xiu D, Geiger MJ, Klaver P. Emotional face expression modulates occipital-frontal effective connectivity during memory formation in a bottom-up fashion. Front Behav Neurosci 2015; 9:90. [PMID: 25954169 PMCID: PMC4407577 DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2014] [Accepted: 03/29/2015] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
Abstract
This study investigated the role of bottom-up and top-down neural mechanisms in the processing of emotional face expression during memory formation. Functional brain imaging data was acquired during incidental learning of positive ("happy"), neutral and negative ("angry" or "fearful") faces. Dynamic Causal Modeling (DCM) was applied on the functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data to characterize effective connectivity within a brain network involving face perception (inferior occipital gyrus and fusiform gyrus) and successful memory formation related areas (hippocampus, superior parietal lobule, amygdala, and orbitofrontal cortex). The bottom-up models assumed processing of emotional face expression along feed forward pathways to the orbitofrontal cortex. The top-down models assumed that the orbitofrontal cortex processed emotional valence and mediated connections to the hippocampus. A subsequent recognition memory test showed an effect of negative emotion on the response bias, but not on memory performance. Our DCM findings showed that the bottom-up model family of effective connectivity best explained the data across all subjects and specified that emotion affected most bottom-up connections to the orbitofrontal cortex, especially from the occipital visual cortex and superior parietal lobule. Of those pathways to the orbitofrontal cortex the connection from the inferior occipital gyrus correlated with memory performance independently of valence. We suggest that bottom-up neural mechanisms support effects of emotional face expression and memory formation in a parallel and partially overlapping fashion.
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- Daiming Xiu
- Division of Psychopathology and Clinical Intervention, Department of Psychology, University of Zurich Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, University of Würzburg Würzburg, Germany
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- Division of Psychopathology and Clinical Intervention, Department of Psychology, University of Zurich Zurich, Switzerland ; Center for MR Research and Child Research Center, University Children's Hospital Zurich Zurich, Switzerland ; Zurich Center for Integrative Human Physiology, University of Zurich Zurich, Switzerland ; Neuroscience Center Zurich, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich Zurich, Switzerland
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Klaver P, Latal B, Martin E. Occipital cortical thickness in very low birth weight born adolescents predicts altered neural specialization of visual semantic category related neural networks. Neuropsychologia 2014; 67:41-54. [PMID: 25458481 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.10.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2014] [Revised: 09/22/2014] [Accepted: 10/24/2014] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Very low birth weight (VLBW) premature born infants have a high risk to develop visual perceptual and learning deficits as well as widespread functional and structural brain abnormalities during infancy and childhood. Whether and how prematurity alters neural specialization within visual neural networks is still unknown. We used functional and structural brain imaging to examine the visual semantic system of VLBW born (<1250 g, gestational age 25-32 weeks) adolescents (13-15 years, n = 11, 3 males) and matched term born control participants (13-15 years, n = 11, 3 males). Neurocognitive assessment revealed no group differences except for lower scores on an adaptive visuomotor integration test. All adolescents were scanned while viewing pictures of animals and tools and scrambled versions of these pictures. Both groups demonstrated animal and tool category related neural networks. Term born adolescents showed tool category related neural activity, i.e. tool pictures elicited more activity than animal pictures, in temporal and parietal brain areas. Animal category related activity was found in the occipital, temporal and frontal cortex. VLBW born adolescents showed reduced tool category related activity in the dorsal visual stream compared with controls, specifically the left anterior intraparietal sulcus, and enhanced animal category related activity in the left middle occipital gyrus and right lingual gyrus. Lower birth weight of VLBW adolescents correlated with larger thickness of the pericalcarine gyrus in the occipital cortex and smaller surface area of the superior temporal gyrus in the lateral temporal cortex. Moreover, larger thickness of the pericalcarine gyrus and smaller surface area of the superior temporal gyrus correlated with reduced tool category related activity in the parietal cortex. Together, our data suggest that very low birth weight predicts alterations of higher order visual semantic networks, particularly in the dorsal stream. The differences in neural specialization may be associated with aberrant cortical development of areas in the visual system that develop early in childhood.
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- Peter Klaver
- Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Switzerland; Center for MR Research and Children׳s Research Center, University Children׳s Hospital Zurich, Switzerland; Zurich Center for Neuroscience, University of Zurich/ETHZ, Switzerland; Zurich Center for Integrative Human Physiology, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
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- Zurich Center for Integrative Human Physiology, University of Zurich, Switzerland; Child Development Center and Children׳s Research Center, University Children׳s Hospital Zurich, Switzerland
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- Center for MR Research and Children׳s Research Center, University Children׳s Hospital Zurich, Switzerland
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von Allmen DY, Wurmitzer K, Klaver P. Hippocampal and posterior parietal contributions to developmental increases in visual short-term memory capacity. Cortex 2014; 59:95-102. [PMID: 25151641 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2014.07.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2013] [Revised: 04/05/2014] [Accepted: 07/24/2014] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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He BJ, Nolte G, Nagata K, Takano D, Yamazaki T, Fujimaki Y, Maeda T, Satoh Y, Heckers S, George MS, Lopes da Silva F, de Munck JC, Van Houdt PJ, Verdaasdonk RM, Ossenblok P, Mullinger K, Bowtell R, Bagshaw AP, Keeser D, Karch S, Segmiller F, Hantschk I, Berman A, Padberg F, Pogarell O, Scharnowski F, Karch S, Hümmer S, Keeser D, Paolini M, Kirsch V, Koller G, Rauchmann B, Kupka M, Blautzik J, Pogarell O, Razavi N, Jann K, Koenig T, Kottlow M, Hauf M, Strik W, Dierks T, Gotman J, Vulliemoz S, Lu Y, Zhang H, Yang L, Worrell G, He B, Gruber O, Piguet C, Hubl D, Homan P, Kindler J, Dierks T, Kim K, Steinhoff U, Wakai R, Koenig T, Kottlow M, Melie-García L, Mucci A, Volpe U, Prinster A, Salvatore M, Galderisi S, Linden DEJ, Brandeis D, Schroeder CE, Kayser C, Panzeri S, Kleinschmidt A, Ritter P, Walther S, Haueisen J, Lau S, Flemming L, Sonntag H, Maess B, Knösche TR, Lanfer B, Dannhauer M, Wolters CH, Stenroos M, Haueisen J, Wolters C, Aydin U, Lanfer B, Lew S, Lucka F, Ruthotto L, Vorwerk 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R, Mellic G, Copland D, Bänninger A, Kottlow M, Díaz Hernàndez L, Koenig T, Díaz Hernàndez L, Bänninger A, Koenig T, Hauser TU, Iannaccone R, Mathys C, Ball J, Drechsler R, Brandeis D, Walitza S, Brem S, Boeijinga PH, Pang EW, Valica T, Macdonald MJ, Oh A, Lerch JP, Anagnostou E, Di Lorenzo G, Pagani M, Monaco L, Daverio A, Verardo AR, Giannoudas I, La Porta P, Niolu C, Fernandez I, Siracusano A, Shimada T, Matsuda Y, Monkawa A, Monkawa T, Hashimoto R, Watanabe K, Kawasaki Y, Matsuda Y, Shimada T, Monkawa T, Monkawa A, Watanabe K, Kawasaki Y, Stegmayer K, Horn H, Federspiel A, Razavi N, Bracht T, Laimböck K, Strik W, Dierks T, Wiest R, Müller TJ, Walther S, Koorenhof LJ, Swithenby SJ, Martins-Mourao A, Rihs TA, Tomescu M, Song KW, Custo A, Knebel JF, Murray M, Eliez S, Michel CM, Volpe U, Merlotti E, Vignapiano A, Montefusco V, Plescia GM, Gallo O, Romano P, Mucci A, Galderisi S, Laimboeck K, Jann K, Walther S, Federspiel A, Wiest R, Strik W, Horn H. Abstracts of Presentations at the International Conference on Basic and Clinical Multimodal Imaging (BaCI), a Joint Conference of the International Society for Neuroimaging in Psychiatry (ISNIP), the International Society for Functional Source Imaging (ISFSI), the International Society for Bioelectromagnetism (ISBEM), the International Society for Brain Electromagnetic Topography (ISBET), and the EEG and Clinical Neuroscience Society (ECNS), in Geneva, Switzerland, September 5-8, 2013. Clin EEG Neurosci 2013; 44:1550059413507209. [PMID: 24368763 DOI: 10.1177/1550059413507209] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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- B J He
- National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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Klaver P, Talsma D. Behind the scenes: How visual memory load biases selective attention during processing of visual streams. Psychophysiology 2013; 50:1133-46. [DOI: 10.1111/psyp.12126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2012] [Accepted: 06/02/2013] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Peter Klaver
- Institute of Psychology; University of Zurich; Zurich Switzerland
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- Department of Experimental Psychology; Ghent University; Ghent Belgium
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von Allmen DY, Wurmitzer K, Martin E, Klaver P. Neural activity in the hippocampus predicts individual visual short-term memory capacity. Hippocampus 2013; 23:606-15. [DOI: 10.1002/hipo.22121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/06/2013] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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O'Gorman RL, Poil SS, Brandeis D, Klaver P, Bollmann S, Ghisleni C, Lüchinger R, Martin E, Shankaranarayanan A, Alsop DC, Michels L. Coupling between resting cerebral perfusion and EEG. Brain Topogr 2012; 26:442-57. [PMID: 23160910 DOI: 10.1007/s10548-012-0265-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2012] [Accepted: 10/25/2012] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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While several studies have investigated interactions between the electroencephalography (EEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging BOLD signal fluctuations, less is known about the associations between EEG oscillations and baseline brain haemodynamics, and few studies have examined the link between EEG power outside the alpha band and baseline perfusion. Here we compare whole-brain arterial spin labelling perfusion MRI and EEG in a group of healthy adults (n = 16, ten females, median age: 27 years, range 21-48) during an eyes closed rest condition. Correlations emerged between perfusion and global average EEG power in low (delta: 2-4 Hz and theta: 4-7 Hz), middle (alpha: 8-13 Hz), and high (beta: 13-30 Hz and gamma: 30-45 Hz) frequency bands in both cortical and sub-cortical regions. The correlations were predominately positive in middle and high-frequency bands, and negative in delta. In addition, central alpha frequency positively correlated with perfusion in a network of brain regions associated with the modulation of attention and preparedness for external input, and central theta frequency correlated negatively with a widespread network of cortical regions. These results indicate that the coupling between average EEG power/frequency and local cerebral blood flow varies in a frequency specific manner. Our results are consistent with longstanding concepts that decreasing EEG frequencies which in general map onto decreasing levels of activation.
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- R L O'Gorman
- Center for MR-Research, University Children's Hospital Zurich, Steinwiesstrasse 75, CH-8032, Zurich, Switzerland
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Michels L, Martin E, Klaver P, Edden R, Zelaya F, Lythgoe DJ, Lüchinger R, Brandeis D, O'Gorman RL. Frontal GABA levels change during working memory. PLoS One 2012; 7:e31933. [PMID: 22485128 PMCID: PMC3317667 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031933] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2011] [Accepted: 01/18/2012] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Functional neuroimaging metrics are thought to reflect changes in neurotransmitter flux, but changes in neurotransmitter levels have not been demonstrated in humans during a cognitive task, and the relationship between neurotransmitter dynamics and hemodynamic activity during cognition has not yet been established. We evaluate the concentration of the major inhibitory (GABA) and excitatory (glutamate + glutamine: Glx) neurotransmitters and the cerebral perfusion at rest and during a prolonged delayed match-to-sample working memory task. Resting GABA levels in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex correlated positively with the resting perfusion and inversely with the change in perfusion during the task. Further, only GABA increased significantly during the first working memory run and then decreased continuously across subsequent task runs. The decrease of GABA over time was paralleled by a trend towards decreased reaction times and higher task accuracy. These results demonstrate a link between neurotransmitter dynamics and hemodynamic activity during working memory, indicating that functional neuroimaging metrics depend on the balance of excitation and inhibition required for cognitive processing.
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- Lars Michels
- Center for MR-Research, University Children's Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland.
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van der Mark S, Klaver P, Bucher K, Maurer U, Schulz E, Brem S, Martin E, Brandeis D. The left occipitotemporal system in reading: Disruption of focal fMRI connectivity to left inferior frontal and inferior parietal language areas in children with dyslexia. Neuroimage 2011; 54:2426-36. [PMID: 20934519 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.10.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 184] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2010] [Revised: 09/26/2010] [Accepted: 10/01/2010] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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- Sanne van der Mark
- MR-Center, University Children's Hospital, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Klaver P, Marcar V, Martin E. Neurodevelopment of the visual system in typically developing children. Progress in Brain Research 2011; 189:113-36. [DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-444-53884-0.00021-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Dinkelacker V, Grüter M, Klaver P, Grüter T, Specht K, Weis S, Kennerknecht I, Elger CE, Fernandez G. Congenital prosopagnosia: multistage anatomical and functional deficits in face processing circuitry. J Neurol 2010; 258:770-82. [PMID: 21120515 PMCID: PMC3090571 DOI: 10.1007/s00415-010-5828-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2010] [Revised: 10/30/2010] [Accepted: 11/03/2010] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Face recognition is a primary social skill which depends on a distributed neural network. A pronounced face recognition deficit in the absence of any lesion is seen in congenital prosopagnosia. This study investigating 24 congenital prosopagnosic subjects and 25 control subjects aims at elucidating its neural basis with fMRI and voxel-based morphometry. We found a comprehensive behavioral pattern, an impairment in visual recognition for faces and buildings that spared long-term memory for faces with negative valence. Anatomical analysis revealed diminished gray matter density in the bilateral lingual gyrus, the right middle temporal gyrus, and the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. In most of these areas, gray matter density correlated with memory success. Decreased functional activation was found in the left fusiform gyrus, a crucial area for face processing, and in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, whereas activation of the medial prefrontal cortex was enhanced. Hence, our data lend strength to the hypothesis that congenital prosopagnosia is explained by network dysfunction and suggest that anatomic curtailing of visual processing in the lingual gyrus plays a substantial role. The dysfunctional circuitry further encompasses the fusiform gyrus and the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, which may contribute to their difficulties in long-term memory for complex visual information. Despite their deficits in face identity recognition, processing of emotion related information is preserved and possibly mediated by the medial prefrontal cortex. Congenital prosopagnosia may, therefore, be a blueprint of differential curtailing in networks of visual cognition.
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Beblo T, Macek C, Brinkers I, Hartje W, Klaver P. A New Approach in Clinical Neuropsychology to the Assessment of Spatial Working Memory: The Block Suppression Test. J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 2010; 26:105-14. [PMID: 14972698 DOI: 10.1076/jcen.26.1.105.23938] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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The Block Suppression Paradigm developed by Beblo, Klaver, Grubich, Wachowius, and Herrmann (1999) is based on the Corsi Block tapping test and requires that a subject reproduces every 2nd block in a given sequence. Results from two studies of a standardized version, the Block Suppression Test (BST), are presented here. In Study 1 the BST was administered to 48 healthy subjects along with a battery of comprehensive neuropsychological tests. The reliability of the BST proved satisfactory under psychometric analysis, while Principal Component Analysis (PCA) confirmed its validity. In Study 2 the BST was administered to a clinical sample of 31 brain-damaged patients to demonstrate its clinical practicability.
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- Thomas Beblo
- Center of Psychiatry and Psychotherapeutical Medicine, Gilead Hospital, Bethel, Bielefeld, Germany.
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Loenneker T, Klaver P, Bucher K, Lichtensteiger J, Imfeld A, Martin E. Microstructural development: organizational differences of the fiber architecture between children and adults in dorsal and ventral visual streams. Hum Brain Mapp 2010; 32:935-46. [PMID: 20533564 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2009] [Revised: 03/16/2010] [Accepted: 03/18/2010] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Visual perceptual skills are basically mature by the age of 7 years. White matter, however, continues to develop until late adolescence. Here, we examined children (aged 5-7 years) and adults (aged 20-30 years) using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) fiber tracking to investigate the microstructural maturation of the visual system. We characterized the brain volumes, DTI indices, and architecture of visual fiber tracts passing through white matter structures adjacent to occipital and parietal cortex (dorsal stream), and to occipital and temporal cortex (ventral stream). Dorsal, but not ventral visual stream pathways were found to increase in volume during maturation. DTI indices revealed expected maturational differences, manifested as decreased mean and radial diffusivities and increased fractional anisotropy in both streams. Additionally, fractional anisotropy was increased and radial diffusivity was decreased in the adult dorsal stream, which can be explained by specific dorsal stream myelination or increasing fiber compaction. Adult dorsal stream architecture showed additional intra- and interhemispheric connections: Dorsal fibers penetrated into contralateral hemispheres via commissural structures and projection fibers extended to the superior temporal gyrus and ventral association pathways. Moreover, intra-hemispheric connectivity was particularly strong in adult dorsal stream of the right hemisphere. Ventral stream architecture also differed between adults and children. Adults revealed additional connections to posterior lateral areas (occipital-temporal gyrus), whereas children showed connections to posterior medial areas (posterior parahippocampal and lingual gyrus). Hence, in addition to dorsal stream myelination or fiber compaction, progressing maturation of intra- and interhemispheric connectivity may contribute to the development of the visual system.
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- Thomas Loenneker
- MR Centre, University Children's Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Michels L, Bucher K, Lüchinger R, Klaver P, Martin E, Jeanmonod D, Brandeis D. Simultaneous EEG-fMRI during a working memory task: modulations in low and high frequency bands. PLoS One 2010; 5:e10298. [PMID: 20421978 PMCID: PMC2858659 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010298] [Citation(s) in RCA: 148] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2010] [Accepted: 03/23/2010] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Background EEG studies of working memory (WM) have demonstrated load dependent frequency band modulations. FMRI studies have localized load modulated activity to the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC), and posterior parietal cortex (PPC). Recently, an EEG-fMRI study found that low frequency band (theta and alpha) activity negatively correlated with the BOLD signal during the retention phase of a WM task. However, the coupling of higher (beta and gamma) frequencies with the BOLD signal during WM is unknown. Methodology In 16 healthy adult subjects, we first investigated EEG-BOLD signal correlations for theta (5–7 Hz), alpha1 (8–10), alpha2 (10–12 Hz), beta1 (13–20), beta2 (20–30 Hz), and gamma (30–40 Hz) during the retention period of a WM task with set size 2 and 5. Secondly, we investigated whether load sensitive brain regions are characterised by effects that relate frequency bands to BOLD signals effects. Principal Findings We found negative theta-BOLD signal correlations in the MPFC, PPC, and cingulate cortex (ACC and PCC). For alpha1 positive correlations with the BOLD signal were found in ACC, MPFC, and PCC; negative correlations were observed in DLPFC, PPC, and inferior frontal gyrus (IFG). Negative alpha2-BOLD signal correlations were observed in parieto-occipital regions. Beta1-BOLD signal correlations were positive in ACC and negative in precentral and superior temporal gyrus. Beta2 and gamma showed only positive correlations with BOLD, e.g., in DLPFC, MPFC (gamma) and IFG (beta2/gamma). The load analysis revealed that theta and—with one exception—beta and gamma demonstrated exclusively positive load effects, while alpha1 showed only negative effects. Conclusions We conclude that the directions of EEG-BOLD signal correlations vary across brain regions and EEG frequency bands. In addition, some brain regions show both load sensitive BOLD and frequency band effects. Our data indicate that lower as well as higher frequency brain oscillations are linked to neurovascular processes during WM.
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- Lars Michels
- Functional Neurosurgery, University Hospital Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
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Wellmer J, Weber B, Weis S, Klaver P, Urbach H, Reul J, Fernandez G, Elger CE. Strongly lateralized activation in language fMRI of atypical dominant patients-implications for presurgical work-up. Epilepsy Res 2008; 80:67-76. [PMID: 18434091 DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2008.03.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2007] [Revised: 11/30/2007] [Accepted: 03/10/2008] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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PURPOSE Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is being used increasingly for language dominance assessment in the presurgical work-up of patients with pharmacoresistant epilepsy. However, the interpretation of bilateral fMRI-activation patterns is difficult. Various studies propose fMRI-lateralization index (LI) thresholds between +/-0.1 and +/-0.5 for discrimination of atypical from typical dominant patients. This study examines if these thresholds allow identifying atypical dominant patients with sufficient safety for presurgical settings. METHODS 65 patients had a tight comparison, fully controlled semantic decision fMRI-task and a Wada-test for language lateralization. According to Wada-test, 22 were atypical language dominant. In the remaining, Wada-test results were compatible with unilateral left dominance. We determined fMRI-LI for two frontal and one temporo-parietal functionally defined, protocol-specific volume of interest (VOI), and for the least lateralized of these VOIs ("low-VOI") in each patient. RESULTS We find large intra-individual LI differences between functionally defined VOIs irrespective of underlying type of language dominance (mean LI difference 0.33+/-0.35, range 0-1.6; 15% of patients have inter-VOI-LI differences >1.0). Across atypical dominant patients fMRI-LI in the Broca's and temporo-parietal VOI range from -1 to +1, in the "remaining frontal" VOI from -0.93 to 1. The highest low-VOI-LI detected in atypical dominant patients is 0.84. CONCLUSIONS Large intra-individual inter-VOI-LI differences and strongly lateralized fMRI-activation in patients with Wada-test proven atypical dominance question the value of the proposed fMRI-thresholds for presurgical language lateralization. Future studies have to develop strategies allowing the reliable identification of atypical dominance with fMRI. The low-VOI approach may be useful.
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- Jörg Wellmer
- Department of Epileptology, University of Bonn, Sigmund-Freud-Str. 25, D-53105 Bonn, Germany.
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Klaver-Król EG, Henriquez NR, Oosterloo SJ, Klaver P, Bos JM, Zwarts MJ. Distribution of motor unit potential velocities in short static and prolonged dynamic contractions at low forces: use of the within-subject's skewness and standard deviation variables. Eur J Appl Physiol 2007; 101:647-58. [PMID: 17874124 PMCID: PMC2039775 DOI: 10.1007/s00421-007-0494-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 05/14/2007] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Behaviour of motor unit potential (MUP) velocities in relation to (low) force and duration was investigated in biceps brachii muscle using a surface electrode array. Short static tests of 3.8 s (41 subjects) and prolonged dynamic tests (prolonged tests) of 4 min (30 subjects) were performed as position tasks, applying forces up to 20% of maximal voluntary contraction (MVC). Four variables, derived from the inter-peak latency technique, were used to describe changes in the surface electromyography signal: the mean muscle fibre conduction velocity (CV), the proportion between slow and fast MUPs expressed as the within-subject skewness of MUP velocities, the within-subject standard deviation of MUP velocities [SD-peak velocity (PV)], and the amount of MUPs per second (peak frequency = PF). In short static tests and the initial phase of prolonged tests, larger forces induced an increase of the CV and PF, accompanied with the shift of MUP velocities towards higher values, whereas the SD-PV did not change. During the first 1.5–2 min of the prolonged lower force levels tests (unloaded, and loaded 5 and 10% MVC) the CV and SD-PV slightly decreased and the MUP velocities shifted towards lower values; then the three variables stabilized. The PF values did not change in these tests. However, during the prolonged higher force (20% MVC) test, the CV decreased and MUP velocities shifted towards lower values without stabilization, while the SD-PV broadened and the PF decreased progressively. It is argued that these combined results reflect changes in both neural regulatory strategies and muscle membrane state.
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- E G Klaver-Król
- Department of Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology, Hospital Group Twente, Geerdinksweg 141, Hengelo, The Netherlands.
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Rotzer S, Kucian K, Martin E, von Aster M, Klaver P, Loenneker T. Optimized voxel-based morphometry in children with developmental dyscalculia. Neuroimage 2007; 39:417-22. [PMID: 17928237 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.08.045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 142] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2007] [Revised: 08/13/2007] [Accepted: 08/24/2007] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Developmental dyscalculia (DD) is a specific learning disability affecting the normal acquisition of arithmetic skills. Current studies estimate that 3-6% of the school population is affected by DD. Genetic, neurobiological, and epidemiologic evidence indicates that dyscalculia is a brain-based disorder. Imaging studies suggest the involvement of parietal and prefrontal cortices in arithmetic tasks. The aim of the present study was to analyze if children with DD show structural differences in parietal, frontal, and cingulate areas compared to typically achieving children. Magnetic resonance imaging was obtained from 12 children with DD aged 9.3+/-0.2 years and 12 age-matched control children without any learning disabilities on a 1.5 T whole-body scanner. Voxel-based morphometry analysis with an optimization of spatial segmentation and normalization procedures was applied to compare the two groups in order to find differences in cerebral gray and white matter. Compared to controls, children with DD show significantly reduced gray matter volume in the right intraparietal sulcus (IPS), the anterior cingulum, the left inferior frontal gyrus, and the bilateral middle frontal gyri. White matter comparison demonstrates clusters with significantly less volume in the left frontal lobe and in the right parahippocampal gyrus in dyscalculic children. The decreased gray and white matter volumes in the frontoparietal network might be the neurological substrate of impaired arithmetic processing skills. The white matter volume decrease in parahippocampal areas may have influence on fact retrieval and spatial memory processing.
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- S Rotzer
- University Children's Hospital, MR-Center, Steinwiesstrasse 75, CH-8032 Zurich, Switzerland.
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Mormann F, Fernández G, Klaver P, Weber B, Elger CE, Fell J. Declarative memory formation in hippocampal sclerosis: an intracranial event-related potentials study. Neuroreport 2007; 18:317-21. [PMID: 17435595 DOI: 10.1097/wnr.0b013e3280287ae9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The functional deficits associated with hippocampal sclerosis during declarative memory formation are largely unknown. In this study, we analyzed intracranial event-related potentials recorded from the medial temporal lobes of nine epilepsy patients performing a word memorization task. We used frequency-specific wavelet analysis to assess stimulus-related changes in power and intertrial phase coherence. Statistical analysis revealed a significant decrease of stimulus-induced power in the delta and theta range on the side of pathology. No significant differences in phase locking were observed. Findings indicate a reduced availability of recruitable neural assemblies not only in the hippocampus but also in the rhinal cortex during memory formation. Network functions related to the timing of neural responses to the stimulus appear to be preserved.
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- Florian Mormann
- Department of Epileptology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
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Klaver P, Schnaidt M, Fell J, Ruhlmann J, Elger CE, Fernández G. Functional dissociations in top–down control dependent neural repetition priming. Neuroimage 2007; 34:1733-43. [PMID: 17178236 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.11.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2006] [Revised: 10/23/2006] [Accepted: 11/02/2006] [Indexed: 10/23/2022] Open
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Little is known about the neural mechanisms underlying top-down control of repetition priming. Here, we use functional brain imaging to investigate these mechanisms. Study and repetition tasks used a natural/man-made forced choice task. In the study phase subjects were required to respond to either pictures or words that were presented superimposed on each other. In the repetition phase only words were presented that were new, previously attended or ignored, or picture names that were derived from previously attended or ignored pictures. Relative to new words we found repetition priming for previously attended words. Previously ignored words showed a reduced priming effect, and there was no significant priming for pictures repeated as picture names. Brain imaging data showed that neural priming of words in the left prefrontal cortex (LIPFC) and left fusiform gyrus (LOTC) was affected by attention, semantic compatibility of superimposed stimuli during study and cross-modal priming. Neural priming reduced for words in the LIPFC and for words and pictures in the LOTC if stimuli were previously ignored. Previously ignored words that were semantically incompatible with a superimposed picture during study induce increased neural priming compared to semantically compatible ignored words (LIPFC) and decreased neural priming of previously attended pictures (LOTC). In summary, top-down control induces dissociable effects on neural priming by attention, cross-modal priming and semantic compatibility in a way that was not evident from behavioral results.
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- Peter Klaver
- Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
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Fell J, Fernández G, Klaver P, Axmacher N, Mormann F, Haupt S, Elger CE. Rhinal-hippocampal coupling during declarative memory formation: dependence on item characteristics. Neurosci Lett 2006; 407:37-41. [PMID: 16959417 DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2006.07.074] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2006] [Revised: 07/10/2006] [Accepted: 07/14/2006] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Lesion and imaging studies have demonstrated that encoding and retrieval of declarative memories, i.e. consciously accessible events and facts, depend on operations within the rhinal cortex and the hippocampus, two substructures of the medial temporal lobe. Analysis of intracranially recorded EEG in presurgical epilepsy patients revealed that successful memory formation is accompanied within one second by a transient enhancement and later decrease of Rhinal-hippocampal phase synchronization in the gamma range, as well as enhanced connectivity in the low-frequency range. In these studies, words with a high frequency of occurrence were used as stimulus material. Here, we re-examined these effects in another group of 10 presurgical epilepsy patients, this time not only for high-frequency, but also for low-frequency words. For successfully memorized compared to later forgotten high-frequency words we again observed an early phase coupling and later decoupling within the gamma range, as well as enhanced coupling within the sub-gamma range. However, for remembered as compared to forgotten low-frequency words clear synchronization increases were only observed for the delta band, but not for the gamma band. Our data suggest, that broadband Rhinal-hippocampal coupling including the gamma range only occurs, when significant semantic associations are processed within rhinal cortex, as is the case for high-frequency words.
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- Juergen Fell
- Department of Epileptology, University of Bonn, Sigmund-Freud Str. 25, D-53105 Bonn, Germany.
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Fliessbach K, Weis S, Klaver P, Elger CE, Weber B. The effect of word concreteness on recognition memory. Neuroimage 2006; 32:1413-21. [PMID: 16861011 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.06.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2006] [Revised: 05/24/2006] [Accepted: 06/09/2006] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Concrete words that are readily imagined are better remembered than abstract words. Theoretical explanations for this effect either claim a dual coding of concrete words in the form of both a verbal and a sensory code (dual-coding theory), or a more accessible semantic network for concrete words than for abstract words (context-availability theory). However, the neural mechanisms of improved memory for concrete versus abstract words are poorly understood. Here, we investigated the processing of concrete and abstract words during encoding and retrieval in a recognition memory task using event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). As predicted, memory performance was significantly better for concrete words than for abstract words. Abstract words elicited stronger activations of the left inferior frontal cortex both during encoding and recognition than did concrete words. Stronger activation of this area was also associated with successful encoding for both abstract and concrete words. Concrete words elicited stronger activations bilaterally in the posterior inferior parietal lobe during recognition. The left parietal activation was associated with correct identification of old stimuli. The anterior precuneus, left cerebellar hemisphere and the posterior and anterior cingulate cortex showed activations both for successful recognition of concrete words and for online processing of concrete words during encoding. Additionally, we observed a correlation across subjects between brain activity in the left anterior fusiform gyrus and hippocampus during recognition of learned words and the strength of the concreteness effect. These findings support the idea of specific brain processes for concrete words, which are reactivated during successful recognition.
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- K Fliessbach
- University of Bonn, Department of Epileptology, Sigmund-Freud-Strasse 25, D-53105 Bonn, Germany.
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Wellmer J, Wellmer J, Weber B, Mormann F, Weis S, Klaver P, Urbach H, Reul J, Ruhlmann J, Elger CE, Fernandez G. Increasing the validity of functional MRI for presurgical language lateralization: proposal for an algorithm. KLIN NEUROPHYSIOL 2006. [DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-939323] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Concrete words, whose meanings are readily imagined, are better remembered than abstract words. However, the neural correlates of this effect are poorly understood. Here, we investigated the effect of imageability on brain activity in the medial temporal lobe (MTL) processes underlying recognition memory. We recorded event-related potentials (ERPs) via depth electrodes from within the MTL in 14 patients with drug-resistant epilepsy. Patients performed a continuous word recognition task with words of high and low imageability (controlled for word frequency). Behaviorally, recognition performance was better for high, compared to low, imageable words. Two ERP components associated with recognition memory, the AMTL-N400 and the hippocampal late negative component, showed an old/new effect, but only the hippocampal P600 showed a main effect of imageability. We suggest that the hippocampal effect of imageability in recognition memory may be associated with conceptual or pictorial information processing of concrete words.
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- Peter Klaver
- Department of Epileptology, University Hospital Bonn, Germany.
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Fell J, Köhling R, Grunwald T, Klaver P, Dietl T, Schaller C, Becker A, Elger CE, Fernández G. Phase-locking characteristics of limbic P3 responses in hippocampal sclerosis. Neuroimage 2004; 24:980-9. [PMID: 15670675 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2004.11.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2004] [Revised: 07/20/2004] [Accepted: 11/06/2004] [Indexed: 10/26/2022] Open
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Amplitudes of the P3 recorded invasively from the medial temporal lobe (MTL-P3) have been reported to be reduced on the side of a mediotemporal epileptogenic focus. This reduction has been attributed to the massive cell loss within the hippocampus associated with hippocampal sclerosis. It has remained unclear how functional connectivity between the hippocampus and rhinal cortex, as well as within the hippocampus, is altered in hippocampal sclerosis. To investigate this issue, we analyzed to what extent stimulus-related phase-locking and power changes within the low-frequency range (2-30 Hz) and within the gamma band (32-48 Hz), as well as rhinal-hippocampal phase synchronization contribute to the averaged MTL-P3 potentials. Event-related responses were recorded via bilateral depth electrodes in epilepsy patients with unilateral hippocampal sclerosis, who performed a visual oddball experiment. On the contralateral (nonsclerotic) side, successful target detection was associated with an increase of power and phase locking of hippocampal activity in both the low-frequency range and in the gamma range. Besides, there were rhinal-hippocampal synchronization enhancements in the theta and gamma range. On the ipsilateral (sclerotic) side, the event-related power increase in the low-frequency range had almost disappeared, a finding likely to be explained by the loss of principle neurons. However, low-frequency phase-locking, rhinal-hippocampal synchronization, as well as event-related power changes in the gamma range persisted ipsilaterally, although there were differences in temporal and spectral characteristics. These findings support the hypothesis that functional connectivity between hippocampus and rhinal cortex, as well as intrahippocampal connectivity, are partially preserved in hippocampal sclerosis.
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- Juergen Fell
- Department of Epileptology, University of Bonn, Sigmund-Freud Str. 25, D-53105 Bonn, Germany.
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Weis S, Specht K, Klaver P, Tendolkar I, Willmes K, Ruhlmann J, Elger CE, Fernández G. Process dissociation between contextual retrieval and item recognition. Neuroreport 2004; 15:2729-33. [PMID: 15597043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/01/2023]
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We employed a source memory task in an event related fMRI study to dissociate MTL processes associated with either contextual retrieval or item recognition. To introduce context during study, stimuli (photographs of buildings and natural landscapes) were transformed into one of four single-color-scales: red, blue, yellow, or green. In the subsequent old/new recognition memory test, all stimuli were presented as gray scale photographs, and old-responses were followed by a four-alternative source judgment referring to the color in which the stimulus was presented during study. Our results suggest a clear-cut process dissociation within the human MTL. While an activity increase accompanies successful retrieval of contextual information, an activity decrease provides a familiarity signal that is sufficient for successful item recognition.
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- Susanne Weis
- Department of Epileptology, University of Bonn, 53105 Bonn, Germany
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Fell J, Dietl T, Grunwald T, Kurthen M, Klaver P, Trautner P, Schaller C, Elger CE, Fernández G. Neural Bases of Cognitive ERPs: More than Phase Reset. J Cogn Neurosci 2004; 16:1595-604. [PMID: 15601521 DOI: 10.1162/0898929042568514] [Citation(s) in RCA: 143] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Up to now, two conflicting theories have tried to explain the genesis of averaged event-related potentials (ERPs): Whereas one hypothesis claims that ERPs originate from an event-related activation of neural assemblies distinct from background dynamics, the other hypothesis states that ERPs are produced by phase resetting of ongoing oscillatory activity. So far, this question has only been addressed for early ERP components. Late ERP components, however, are generally thought to represent superimposed activities of several anatomically distinct brain areas. Thus, the question of which mechanism underlies the genesis of late ERP components cannot be easily answered based on scalp recordings. In contrast, two well-investigated late ERP components recorded invasively from within the human medial temporal lobe (MTL) in epilepsy patients, the so-called MTL-P300 and the anterior MTL-N400 (AMTL-N400), are based on single source activity. Hence, we investigated whether the MTL-P300 and the AMTL-N400 are based on an event-related activity increase, a phase reset of ongoing oscillatory activity or both. ERPs were recorded from the hippocampus and rhinal cortex in subjects performing a visual oddball paradigm and a visual word recognition paradigm. With wavelet techniques, stimulus-related phase-locking and power changes were analyzed in a frequency range covering 2 to 48 Hz. We found that the MTLP300 is accompanied by both phase reset and power increase and that both effects overlap partly in time. In contrast, the AMTL-N400 is initially associated with phase locking without power increase and only later during the course of the AMTL-N400 we observed an additional power increase. In conclusion, both aspects, event-related activation of neural assemblies and phase resetting of ongoing activity seem to be involved in the generation of late ERP components as recorded in cognitive tasks. Therefore, separate analysis of event-related power and phase-locking changes might reveal specific insights into the mechanisms underlying different cognitive functions.
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- Juergen Fell
- Department of Epileptology, University of Bonn, D-53105 Bonn, Germany.
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Wellmer J, Elger CE, Weis S, Klaver P, Linke DB, Urbach H, Reul J, Ruhlmann J, Kurthen M, Fernandez G. Under which Condition can fMRI Replace the Intracarotid Amobarbital Procedure (IAP) for Presurgical Language Lateralization? KLIN NEUROPHYSIOL 2004. [DOI: 10.1055/s-2004-832226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Dinkelacker V, Grüter M, Klaver P, Kennerknecht I, Ruhlmann J, Elger CE, Fernandez G, Weis S, Grüter T. Neural Correlates of Face Processing in Hereditary Prosopagnosia: A Functional MRI Study. KLIN NEUROPHYSIOL 2004. [DOI: 10.1055/s-2004-831955] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Klaver P, Fell J, Weis S, De Greiff A, Ruhlmann J, Reul J, Elger CE, Fernández G. Using visual advance information: an event-related functional MRI study. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004; 20:242-55. [PMID: 15183395 DOI: 10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2004.03.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/16/2004] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Our event-related functional MRI (efMRI) study investigates whether visual advance information (AI) affects rather perceptual or central response-related processing areas. Twelve subjects were required to make a go/no-go decision to a conjunction of a specific color and motion direction. The stimuli were preceded by a cue, providing 100% valid advance information about motion direction. Partial and full advance information (PAI and FAI) predicted possible targets, respectively, certain nontargets, neutral cues (NAI) gave no prediction. The time between cue and stimulus (stimulus onset asynchrony, SOA) was varied. A response benefit was found after PAI as compared with NAI. The benefit was small with a short SOA (150 ms), increased with intermediate SOA (450 ms) and sustained with long SOA (750 ms). Perceptual and central processing areas were more active with increasing SOA, but only central response-related processing areas were selectively modulated by cue information. In particular, supplementary motor area and bilateral inferior parietal lobe were more active with PAI than with NAI. If comparing NAI with FAI, more errors were made and activity was larger in central processing areas. Our results suggest that, depending on the processing time, cues providing perceptual information modulate central response-related processes.
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- Peter Klaver
- Department of Epileptology, University Hospital Bonn, 53105, Germany.
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Weis S, Klaver P, Reul J, Elger CE, Fernández G. Temporal and Cerebellar Brain Regions that Support both Declarative Memory Formation and Retrieval. Cereb Cortex 2004; 14:256-67. [PMID: 14754866 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhg125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Using event-related fMRI, we scanned young healthy subjects while they memorized real-world photographs and subsequently tried to recognize them within a series of new photographs. We confirmed that activity in the medial temporal lobe (MTL) and inferior prefrontal cortex correlates with declarative memory formation as defined by the subsequent memory effect, stronger responses to subsequently remembered than forgotten items. Additionally, we confirmed that activity in specific regions within the parietal lobe, anterior prefrontal cortex, anterior cingulate and cerebellum correlate with recognition memory as measured by the conventional old/new effect, stronger responses for recognized old items (hits) than correctly identified new items (correct rejections). To obtain a purer measure of recognition success, we introduced two recognition effects by comparing brain responses to hits and old items misclassified as new (misses). The positive recognition effect (hits > misses) revealed prefrontal, parietal and cerebellar contributions to recognition, and in line with electrophysiological findings, the negative recognition effect (hits < misses) revealed an anterior medial temporal contribution. Finally, by inclusive masking, we identified temporal and cerebellar brain areas that support both declarative memory formation and retrieval. For matching operations during recognition, these areas may re-use representations formed and stored locally during encoding.
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- Susanne Weis
- Department of Epileptology, University of Bonn, Germany
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- Susanne Weis
- Department of Epileptology, University of Bonn, Germany.
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Today, much evidence exists that sensory feature binding is accomplished by phase synchronization of induced neuronal gamma activity (30-80 Hz). Recent studies furthermore suggest that phase synchronization of induced gamma activity may represent a general mechanism enabling transient associations of neural assemblies and thus may play a central role in cortical information processing. Here, we describe findings indicating that synchronized gamma activity is moreover specifically involved in selective attention. While feature binding appears to depend primarily on induced gamma synchronization, attentional processes seem to involve both induced and evoked gamma oscillations. Yet it is still an open question, as to which top-down and bottom-up processes are associated with attentional modulation of gamma activity. A possible mechanism to project influences from attentional control structures to areas concerned with stimulus representation and vice versa, may be neuronal synchronization and the resulting firing rate changes of coincidence-detecting neurons in target areas.
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- Juergen Fell
- Department of Epileptology, University of Bonn, Sigmund-Freud Str. 25, D-53105, Bonn, Germany.
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Fernández G, Weis S, Stoffel-Wagner B, Tendolkar I, Reuber M, Beyenburg S, Klaver P, Fell J, de Greiff A, Ruhlmann J, Reul J, Elger CE. Menstrual cycle-dependent neural plasticity in the adult human brain is hormone, task, and region specific. J Neurosci 2003; 23:3790-5. [PMID: 12736349 PMCID: PMC6742192] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/02/2023] Open
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In rodents, cyclically fluctuating levels of gonadal steroid hormones modulate neural plasticity by altering synaptic transmission and synaptogenesis. Alterations of mood and cognition observed during the menstrual cycle suggest that steroid-related plasticity also occurs in humans. Cycle phase-dependent differences in cognitive performance have almost exclusively been found in tasks probing lateralized neuronal domains, i.e., cognitive domains such as language, which are predominantly executed by one hemisphere. To search for neural correlates of hormonally mediated neural plasticity in humans, we thus conducted a functional magnetic resonance imaging study measuring brain activity related to a semantic decision task in the language domain. This was contrasted with a letter-matching task in the perceptual domain, in which we expected no steroid hormone-mediated effect. We investigated 12 young healthy women in a counterbalanced repeated-measure design during low-steroid menstruation and high-steroid midluteal phase. Steroid serum levels correlated with the volume and lateralization of particular brain activations related to the semantic task but not with brain activity related to the perceptual task. More specifically, bilateral superior temporal recruitment correlated positively with progesterone and medial superior frontal recruitment with both progesterone and estradiol serum levels, whereas activations in inferior and middle frontal cortex were unaffected by steroid levels. In contrast to these specific interactions, testosterone levels correlated nonselectively with overall activation levels by neural and/or vascular factor(s). In conclusion, our data demonstrate steroid hormone responsivity in the adult human brain by revealing neural plasticity in the language domain, which appears hormone, task, and region specific.
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- Guillén Fernández
- Department of Epileptology, University of Bonn, 53105 Bonn, Germany.
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Fernández G, Specht K, Weis S, Tendolkar I, Reuber M, Fell J, Klaver P, Ruhlmann J, Reul J, Elger CE. Intrasubject reproducibility of presurgical language lateralization and mapping using fMRI. Neurology 2003; 60:969-75. [PMID: 12654961 DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000049934.34209.2e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 188] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND fMRI is becoming a standard tool for the presurgical lateralization and mapping of brain areas involved in language processing. However, its within-subject reproducibility has yet to be fully explored. OBJECTIVE To evaluate within-test and test-retest reliability of language fMRI in consecutive patients undergoing evaluation for epilepsy surgery. METHODS Thirty-four unselected patients were investigated once (within-test reliability) and 12 patients twice (test-retest reliability). The imaging series consisted of an alternating 25-second synonym judgment condition with a 25-second letter-matching condition repeated 15 times. Reproducibility of activation maps of the first and second half of session 1 or activation maps of sessions 1 and 2 was evaluated by comparing one global and three regional lateralization indexes (Broca's area, remaining prefrontal cortex, temporoparietal area) and on a voxel-by-voxel basis (intraclass correlation coefficient, percentage overlap, correlation of t-values). RESULTS Global and regional language lateralization was achieved with high reliability within and across sessions. Reproducibility was evenly distributed across both hemispheres but not within each hemisphere. Frontal activations were more reliable than temporoparietal ones. Depending on the statistical threshold chosen, the voxel-by-voxel analysis revealed a mean overlap of activations derived from the first and second investigation of up to 48.9%. CONCLUSION Language fMRI proved sufficiently reliable for the determination of global and regional lateralization of language representation in individual unselected patients with epilepsy.
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- G Fernández
- Department of Epileptology, University of Bonn, Germany.
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Human declarative memory formation crucially depends on processes within the medial temporal lobe (MTL). These processes can be monitored in real-time by recordings from depth electrodes implanted in the MTL of patients with epilepsy who undergo presurgical evaluation. In our studies, patients performed a word memorization task during depth EEG recording. Afterwards, the difference between event-related potentials (ERPs) corresponding to subsequently remembered versus forgotten words was analyzed. These kind of studies revealed that successful memory encoding is characterized by an early process generated by the rhinal cortex within 300 ms following stimulus onset. This rhinal process precedes a hippocampal process, which starts about 200 ms later. Further investigation revealed that the rhinal process seems to be a correlate of semantic preprocessing which supports memory formation, whereas the hippocampal process appears to be a correlate of an exclusively mnemonic operation. These studies yielded only indirect evidence for an interaction of rhinal cortex and hippocampus. Direct evidence for a memory related cooperation between both structures, however, has been found in a study analyzing so called gamma activity, EEG oscillations of around 40 Hz. This investigation showed that successful as opposed to unsuccessful memory formation is accompanied by an initial enhancement of rhinal-hippocampal phase synchronization, which is followed by a later desynchronization. Present knowledge about the function of phase synchronized gamma activity suggests that this phase coupling and decoupling initiates and later terminates communication between the two MTL structures. Phase synchronized rhinal-hippocampal gamma activity may, moreover, accomplish Hebbian synaptic modifications and thus provide an initial step of declarative memory formation on the synaptic level.
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- Jürgen Fell
- Department of Epileptology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
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The medial temporal lobe (MTL) is the core structure of the declarative memory system, but which specific operation is performed by anatomically defined MTL substructures? One hypothesis proposes that the hippocampus carries out an exclusively mnemonic operation during declarative memory formation that is insensitive to content, whereas the rhinal cortex carries out an operation supporting memory formation indirectly. To explore the interaction between a salient item feature and memory formation, we contrasted neural correlates of memory formation of high- and low-frequency words. Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded via depth electrodes from within the MTL in nine epilepsy patients while they memorized single words. To assess memory formation, ERPs to words subsequently recalled in a free recall test were contrasted with ERPs to forgotten words. More high- than low-frequency words were remembered. High-frequency words led to distinct ERP subsequent memory effects in rhinal cortex and hippocampus. Low-frequency words, however, were only associated with the hippocampal ERP effect. The anatomically restricted interaction between word frequency and memory formation might indicate a semantically affected operation in the parahippocampal region supporting memory formation indirectly. By contrast, the missing interaction in hippocampal recordings might suggest a direct correlate of declarative memory formation that is insensitive to item properties.
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Fell J, Klaver P, Elfadil H, Schaller C, Elger CE, Fernández G. Rhinal-hippocampal theta coherence during declarative memory formation: interaction with gamma synchronization? Eur J Neurosci 2003; 17:1082-8. [PMID: 12653984 DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2003.02522.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 156] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The hippocampus and the rhinal cortex, two substructures of the medial temporal lobe, together play a crucial role in human declarative memory formation. To investigate in detail the mechanism connecting these two structures transiently during memory formation we recorded depth EEG in epilepsy patients from within the hippocampus and the rhinal cortex. During this recording, patients performed a single-trial word list-learning paradigm with a free recall memory test following a distraction task. Rhinal-hippocampal EEG coherence and spectral power at both locations in the time interval up to 2 s after onset of word presentation were analysed in the frequency range 1-19 Hz. Successful as opposed to unsuccessful memory formation was associated with a general rhinal-hippocampal coherence enhancement, but without alterations in spectral power. Coherence increases in the theta range were correlated with the previously reported memory-related changes in rhinal-hippocampal gamma phase synchronization. This correlation may suggest an interaction of the two mechanisms during declarative memory formation. While theta coherence might be associated with slowly modulated coupling related to an encoding state, rhinal-hippocampal gamma synchronization may be more closely related to actual memory processes by enabling fast coupling and decoupling of the two structures.
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- Juergen Fell
- Department of Epileptology, University of Bonn, Sigmund-Freud Str 25, D-53105 Bonn, Germany.
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This study investigated how different spectral and nonlinear EEG measures covaried with alpha power during auditory alpha biofeedback training, performed by 13 healthy subjects. We found a significant positive correlation of alpha power with the largest Lyapunov-exponent, pointing to an increased dynamical instability of the EEG accompanying alpha enhancement. Alpha power amplification, moreover, was significantly correlated with a decrease of spectral entropy within the alpha range. This outcome reflects a sharpening of the alpha peak during biofeedback training. The fact that the sharpening effect clearly preceded the increase of alpha amplitude could be exploited in future biofeedback settings.
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- Jürgen Fell
- Department of Epileptology, University of Bonn, Sigmund-Freud-Str. 25, D-53105 Bonn, Germany.
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Fell J, Elfadil H, Röschke J, Burr W, Klaver P, Elger CE, Fernández G. Human scalp recorded sigma activity is modulated by slow EEG oscillations during deep sleep. Int J Neurosci 2002; 112:893-900. [PMID: 12424828 DOI: 10.1080/00207450290025905] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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The EEG during deep sleep exhibits a distinct cortically generated slow oscillation of around and below 1 Hz which can be distinguished from other delta (0.5-3.5 Hz) activity. Intracranial studies showed that this slow oscillation triggers and groups cortical network firing. In the present study, we examined whether the phases of the slow oscillation during sleep stage 4 are correlated with the magnitude of sigma (12-16 Hz) and gamma (> 20 Hz) scalp activity. For this purpose, 10-min segments of uninterrupted stage 4 sleep EEG from 9 subjects were analyzed by applying wavelet techniques. We found that scalp recorded sigma, but not gamma, activity is modulated by the phases of the slow oscillation during deep sleep. Enhancement of sigma activity was observed to be triggered by the peak of the surface positive slow wave component, whereas reduction of sigma activity started around the peak of the negative component.
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- Jürgen Fell
- Dept. of Epileptology, University of Bonn, Sigmund-Freud Str. 25, D-53105 Bonn, Germany.
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The attentional blink (AB) is an impairment of attention, which occurs when subjects have to report a target stimulus (T2) following a previous target (T1) with a short delay (up to 600 ms). Theories explaining the AB assume that processing of T2 is more vulnerable to decay or substitution, as long as attention is allocated to T1. Existing models of the AB, however, do not account for the fact that T2 detection accuracy reaches the minimum when T2 is presented after about 300 ms and not immediately following T1. Therefore, a new model is suggested, which is based on chronometrical considerations together with recent neurophysiological findings concerning the relation between the P3 event-related potential and the AB, the interaction between P3 and gamma oscillations, and the significance of the early evoked gamma band response. We hypothesize that suppression of the early gamma response to T2, accompanying the P3 related to T1, causes the AB.
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- Jürgen Fell
- Department of Epileptology, University of Bonn, Sigmund-Freud Str. 25, Bonn, D-53105, Germany.
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