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Casey CP, Tanabe S, Farahbakhsh Z, Parker M, Bo A, White M, Ballweg T, Mcintosh A, Filbey W, Banks MI, Saalmann YB, Pearce RA, Sanders RD. Dynamic causal modelling of auditory surprise during disconnected consciousness: The role of feedback connectivity. Neuroimage 2022; 263:119657. [PMID: 36209793 PMCID: PMC10076444 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119657] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2022] [Revised: 09/08/2022] [Accepted: 09/29/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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The neural mechanisms through which individuals lose sensory awareness of their environment during anesthesia remains poorly understood despite being of vital importance to the field. Prior research has not distinguished between sensory awareness of the environment (connectedness) and consciousness itself. In the current study, we investigated the neural correlates of sensory awareness by contrasting neural responses to an auditory roving oddball paradigm during consciousness with sensory awareness (connected consciousness) and consciousness without sensory awareness (disconnected consciousness). These states were captured using a serial awakening paradigm with the sedative alpha2 adrenergic agonist dexmedetomidine, chosen based on our published hypothesis that suppression of noradrenaline signaling is key to induce a state of sensory disconnection. High-density electroencephalography was recorded from 18 human subjects before and after administration of dexmedetomidine. By investigating event-related potentials and taking advantage of advances in Dynamic Causal Modeling (DCM), we assessed alterations in effective connectivity between nodes of a previously established auditory processing network. We found that during disconnected consciousness, the scalp-level response to standard tones produced a P3 response that was absent during connected consciousness. This P3 response resembled the response to oddball tones seen in connected consciousness. DCM showed that disconnection produced increases in standard tone feedback signaling throughout the auditory network. Simulation analyses showed that these changes in connectivity, most notably the increase in feedback from right superior temporal gyrus to right A1, can explain the new P3 response. Together these findings show that during disconnected consciousness there is a disruption of normal predictive coding processes, so that all incoming auditory stimuli become similarly surprising.
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- Cameron P Casey
- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA.
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
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- Specialty of Anaesthetics, University of Sydney, Camperdown, Australia; Department of Anaesthetics, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, Australia; Institute of Academic Surgery, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, Australia.
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Farahbakhsh Z, Radahmadi M. The protective effects of escitalopram on synaptic plasticity in the CA1 region of chronically stressed and non-stressed male rats. Int J Dev Neurosci 2022; 82:748-758. [PMID: 35971746 DOI: 10.1002/jdn.10224] [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] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2022] [Revised: 07/21/2022] [Accepted: 08/08/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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INTRODUCTION Stress impairs cognitive processes and escitalopram affects them in various ways. The present study has compared the protective effects of two escitalopram doses on neural excitability and synaptic plasticity in the CA1 region of chronically stressed and non-stressed male rats. METHODS Forty-nine rats were randomly allocated into seven groups: control (Co), stress (St), sham (Sh), escitalopram 10 and 20 mg/kg (Esc10 & Esc20), stress-escitalopram 10 and 20 mg/kg (St-Esc10 & St-Esc20). Induction of restraint stress (6 h/day) and escitalopram injections were performed for 14 days. The fEPSP slope and amplitude were measured according to input-output functions and after the LTP induction in the hippocampal CA1 region. Also, serum corticosterone levels were evaluated in all experimental groups. RESULTS The fEPSP slope and amplitude decreased significantly in the St group and increased significantly in the Esc10 group compared to the Co group. In non-stressed states, significant increases in slope and amplitude occurred in the Esc10 group compared to the Esc20 group. Notably, these values were also significantly enhanced by both escitalopram doses under stressed conditions. Moreover, serum corticosterone levels significantly elevated in the St group although its levels decreased in both St-Esc groups compared to the St. CONCLUSION Stress significantly attenuated neural excitability and long-term plasticity in the CA1 area. Only escitalopram 10 mg/kg improved synaptic excitability, as well as LTP induction and maintenance in non-stressed subjects even more than normal levels. However, under stress conditions, both escitalopram doses enhanced neural excitability and memory probably due to reduced serum corticosterone levels.
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- Zahra Farahbakhsh
- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
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- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
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Casey CP, Tanabe S, Farahbakhsh Z, Parker M, Bo A, White M, Ballweg T, Mcintosh A, Filbey W, Saalmann Y, Pearce RA, Sanders RD. Distinct EEG signatures differentiate unconsciousness and disconnection during anaesthesia and sleep. Br J Anaesth 2022; 128:1006-1018. [PMID: 35148892 DOI: 10.1016/j.bja.2022.01.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [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: 10/07/2021] [Revised: 12/10/2021] [Accepted: 01/05/2022] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND How conscious experience becomes disconnected from the environment, or disappears, across arousal states is unknown. We sought to identify the neural correlates of sensory disconnection and unconsciousness using a novel serial awakening paradigm. METHODS Volunteers were recruited for sedation with dexmedetomidine i.v., propofol i.v., or natural sleep with high-density EEG monitoring and serial awakenings to establish whether subjects were in states of disconnected consciousness or unconsciousness in the preceding 20 s. The primary outcome was classification of conscious states by occipital delta power (0.5-4 Hz). Secondary analyses included derivation (dexmedetomidine) and validation (sleep/propofol) studies of EEG signatures of conscious states. RESULTS Occipital delta power differentiated disconnected and unconscious states for dexmedetomidine (area under the curve [AUC] for receiver operating characteristic 0.605 [95% confidence interval {CI}: 0.516; 0.694]) but not for sleep/propofol (AUC 0.512 [95% CI: 0.380; 0.645]). Distinct source localised signatures of sensory disconnection (AUC 0.999 [95% CI: 0.9954; 1.0000]) and unconsciousness (AUC 0.972 [95% CI: 0.9507; 0.9879]) were identified using support vector machine classification of dexmedetomidine data. These findings generalised to sleep/propofol (validation data set: sensory disconnection [AUC 0.743 {95% CI: 0.6784; 0.8050}]) and unconsciousness (AUC 0.622 [95% CI: 0.5176; 0.7238]). We identified that sensory disconnection was associated with broad spatial and spectral changes. In contrast, unconsciousness was associated with focal decreases in activity in anterior and posterior cingulate cortices. CONCLUSIONS These findings may enable novel monitors of the anaesthetic state that can distinguish sensory disconnection and unconsciousness, and these may provide novel insights into the biology of arousal. CLINICAL TRIAL REGISTRATION NCT03284307.
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- Cameron P Casey
- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Specialty of Anaesthetics, University of Sydney, Camperdown, Sydney, Australia; Department of Anaesthetics, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, Sydney, Australia; Institute of Academic Surgery, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, Sydney, Australia.
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Delirrooyfard A, Cheraghi M, Sayyah M, Farahbakhsh Z. Association between a history of child neglect, abuse and the suicidal patient: a cross-sectional study. J Emerg Pract Trauma 2021. [DOI: 10.34172/jept.2021.34] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Objective: People with a significant childhood history of abuse may exhibit emotional dysregulations and psychiatric disorders and, in some cases, present suicidal ideation. Methods: In this descriptive-analytical and cross-sectional study data were collected from suicidal patients referred to two grand hospitals in 2019. One hundred ninety-five participants were evaluated concerning child abuse and neglect history. Data were reported as mean, SD, frequency, and percent. T-test and chi-square tests were used for statistical analyses accordingly. Results: Child abuse regarding suicidal people were to the following order, neglect (n=103), child emotional abuse (n=102), child physical abuse (n=101), malnutrition (n=96), and child sexual abuse (n=87). Suicide was different between the two genders, but it was not different based on parents’ education and marital status. Conclusion: The harassed child is not equipped with proper behavioral skills and is subjected to low self-esteem due to incorrect training. Therefore, he/she may commit suicide in adolescence by facing some problems and failures. In this regard, community plays an important role, parents must be informed and use the right culture to reward the child.
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- Ali Delirrooyfard
- Imam Khomeini Hospital Clinical Research Development Unit, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran
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- Department of Public Health, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran
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- Department of Psychiatry, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz Iran
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- Student Research Committee, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran
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Farahbakhsh Z, Erickson K, Siciliano C. Kappa‐Opioid Receptors Modulate Innate and Learned Responses to Positive and Negative Reinforcers. FASEB J 2021. [DOI: 10.1096/fasebj.2021.35.s1.02618] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Department of PharmacologyVanderbilt UniversityNashvilleTN
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Ballweg T, White M, Parker M, Casey C, Bo A, Farahbakhsh Z, Kayser A, Blair A, Lindroth H, Pearce RA, Blennow K, Zetterberg H, Lennertz R, Sanders RD. Association between plasma tau and postoperative delirium incidence and severity: a prospective observational study. Br J Anaesth 2020; 126:458-466. [PMID: 33228978 DOI: 10.1016/j.bja.2020.08.061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2020] [Revised: 08/20/2020] [Accepted: 08/21/2020] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Postoperative delirium is associated with increases in the neuronal injury biomarker, neurofilament light (NfL). Here we tested whether two other biomarkers, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) and tau, are associated with postoperative delirium. METHODS A total of 114 surgical patients were recruited into two prospective biomarker cohort studies with assessment of delirium severity and incidence. Plasma samples were sent for biomarker analysis including tau, NfL, and GFAP, and a panel of 10 cytokines. We determined a priori to adjust for interleukin-8 (IL-8), a marker of inflammation, when assessing associations between biomarkers and delirium incidence and severity. RESULTS GFAP concentrations showed no relationship to delirium. The change in tau from preoperative concentrations to postoperative Day 1 was greater in patients with postoperative delirium (P<0.001) and correlated with delirium severity (ρ=0.39, P<0.001). The change in tau correlated with increases in IL-8 (P<0.001) and IL-10 (P=0.0029). Linear regression showed that the relevant clinical predictors of tau changes were age (P=0.037), prior stroke/transient ischaemic attack (P=0.001), and surgical blood loss (P<0.001). After adjusting for age, sex, preoperative cognition, and change in IL-8, tau remained significantly associated with delirium severity (P=0.026). Using linear mixed effect models, only tau (not NfL or IL-8) predicted recovery from delirium (P<0.001). CONCLUSIONS The change in plasma tau was associated with delirium incidence and severity, and resolved over time in parallel with delirium features. The impact of this putative perioperative neuronal injury biomarker on long-term cognition merits further investigation. CLINICAL TRIAL REGISTRATION NCT02926417 and NCT03124303.
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- Tyler Ballweg
- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Center for Aging Research, Center for Health Innovation and Implementation, Indianapolis, IN, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Mölndal, Sweden
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Mölndal, Sweden; Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Mölndal, Sweden; Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, UCL Institute of Neurology, London, UK; UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL, London, UK
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Department of Anaesthetics, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, NSW, Australia.
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Casey CP, Lindroth H, Mohanty R, Farahbakhsh Z, Ballweg T, Twadell S, Miller S, Krause B, Prabhakaran V, Blennow K, Zetterberg H, Sanders RD. Postoperative delirium is associated with increased plasma neurofilament light. Brain 2020; 143:47-54. [PMID: 31802104 DOI: 10.1093/brain/awz354] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.8] [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: 03/29/2019] [Revised: 09/02/2019] [Accepted: 09/25/2019] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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While delirium is associated with cognitive decline and dementia, there is limited evidence to support causality for this relationship. Clarification of how delirium may cause cognitive decline, perhaps through evidence of contemporaneous neuronal injury, would enhance plausibility for a causal relationship. Dose-dependence of neuronal injury with delirium severity would further enhance the biological plausibility for this relationship. We tested whether delirium is associated with neuronal injury in 114 surgical patients recruited to a prospective biomarker cohort study. Patients underwent perioperative testing for changes in neurofilament light, a neuronal injury biomarker, as well as a panel of 10 cytokines, with contemporaneous assessment of delirium severity and incidence. A subset of patients underwent preoperative MRI. Initially we confirmed prior reports that neurofilament light levels correlated with markers of neurodegeneration [hippocampal volume (ΔR2 = 0.129, P = 0.015)] and white matter changes including fractional anisotropy of white matter (ΔR2 = 0.417, P < 0.001) with similar effects on mean, axial and radial diffusivity) in our cohort and that surgery was associated with increasing neurofilament light from preoperative levels [mean difference (95% confidence interval, CI) = 0.240 (0.178, 0.301) log10 (pg/ml), P < 0.001], suggesting putative neuronal injury. Next, we tested the relationship with delirium. Neurofilament light rose more sharply in participants with delirium compared to non-sufferers [mean difference (95% CI) = 0.251 (0.136, 0.367) log10 (pg/ml), P < 0.001]. This relationship showed dose-dependence, such that neurofilament light rose proportionately to delirium severity (ΔR2 = 0.199, P < 0.001). Given that inflammation is considered an important driver of postoperative delirium, next we tested whether neurofilament light, as a potential marker of neurotoxicity, may contribute to the pathogenesis of delirium independent of inflammation. From a panel of 10 cytokines, the pro-inflammatory cytokine IL-8 exhibited a strong correlation with delirium severity (ΔR2 = 0.208, P < 0.001). Therefore, we tested whether the change in neurofilament light contributed to delirium severity independent of IL-8. Neurofilament light was independently associated with delirium severity after adjusting for the change in inflammation (ΔR2 = 0.040, P = 0.038). These data suggest delirium is associated with exaggerated increases in neurofilament light and that this putative neurotoxicity may contribute to the pathogenesis of delirium itself, independent of changes in inflammation.
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- Cameron P Casey
- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, USA.,Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Center for Aging Research, Center for Health Innovation and Implementation, Indianapolis, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, USA.,Department of Radiology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Center for Aging Research, Center for Health Innovation and Implementation, Indianapolis, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Mölndal, Sweden
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Mölndal, Sweden.,Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Mölndal, Sweden.,Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, UK.,UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL, London, UK
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, USA
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Tanabe S, Bo A, White M, Parker M, Farahbakhsh Z, Ballweg T, Casey C, Betthauser T, Zetterberg H, Blennow K, Christian B, Bendlin BB, Johnson S, Sanders RD. Cohort study of electroencephalography markers of amyloid-tau-neurodegeneration pathology. Brain Commun 2020; 2:fcaa099. [PMID: 32954343 PMCID: PMC7475697 DOI: 10.1093/braincomms/fcaa099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [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: 04/08/2020] [Revised: 05/23/2020] [Accepted: 06/01/2020] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Electroencephalography signatures of amyloid-β, tau and neurodegenerative pathologies would aid in screening for, tracking progression of, and critically, understanding the pathogenesis of dementia. We hypothesized that slowing of the alpha peak frequency, as a signature of hyperpolarization-activated cyclic nucleotide gated ‘pacemaker’ channel activity, would correlate with amyloid and tau pathology burden measured by amyloid (Pittsburgh Compound B) and tau (MK-6240) positron emission tomography or CSF biomarkers. We also hypothesized that EEG power would be associated with neurodegeneration (CSF neurofilament light and hippocampal volume). Wakeful high-density EEG data were collected from 53 subjects. Both amyloid-β and tau pathology were associated with slowing in the alpha peak frequency [Pittsburgh Compound B (+) vs. Pittsburgh Compound B (−) subjects, P = 0.039 and MK-6240 (+) vs. MK-6240 (−) subjects, P = 0.019]. Furthermore, slowing in the peak alpha frequency correlated with CSF Aβ42/40 ratio (r2 = 0.270; P = 0.003), phosphoTau (pTau181, r2 = 0.290; P = 0.001) and pTau181/Aβ42 (r2 = 0.343; P < 0.001). Alpha peak frequency was not associated with neurodegeneration. Higher CSF neurofilament light was associated with lower total EEG power (r2 = 0.136; P = 0.018), theta power (r2 = 0.148; P = 0.014) and beta power (r2 = 0.216; P = 0.002); the latter was also associated with normalized hippocampal volume (r2 = 0.196; P = 0.002). Amyloid-tau and neurodegenerative pathologies are associated with distinct electrophysiological signatures that may be useful as mechanistic tools and diagnostic/treatment effect biomarkers in clinical trials.
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- Sean Tanabe
- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry, Institute of Neuroscience & Physiology, the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Mölndal, Sweden.,Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Mölndal, Sweden.,Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, UCL Institute of Neurology, London, UK.,UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL, London, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry, Institute of Neuroscience & Physiology, the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Mölndal, Sweden.,Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Mölndal, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Physics and Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Discipline of Anaesthetics, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.,Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, NSW, Australia
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Tanabe S, Mohanty R, Lindroth H, Casey C, Ballweg T, Farahbakhsh Z, Krause B, Prabhakaran V, Banks MI, Sanders RD. Cohort study into the neural correlates of postoperative delirium: the role of connectivity and slow-wave activity. Br J Anaesth 2020; 125:55-66. [PMID: 32499013 DOI: 10.1016/j.bja.2020.02.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2019] [Revised: 01/10/2020] [Accepted: 02/28/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Delirium frequently affects older patients, increasing morbidity and mortality; however, the pathogenesis is poorly understood. Herein, we tested the cognitive disintegration model, which proposes that a breakdown in frontoparietal connectivity, provoked by increased slow-wave activity (SWA), causes delirium. METHODS We recruited 70 surgical patients to have preoperative and postoperative cognitive testing, EEG, blood biomarkers, and preoperative MRI. To provide evidence for causality, any putative mechanism had to differentiate on the diagnosis of delirium; change proportionally to delirium severity; and correlate with a known precipitant for delirium, inflammation. Analyses were adjusted for multiple corrections (MCs) where appropriate. RESULTS In the preoperative period, subjects who subsequently incurred postoperative delirium had higher alpha power, increased alpha band connectivity (MC P<0.05), but impaired structural connectivity (increased radial diffusivity; MC P<0.05) on diffusion tensor imaging. These connectivity effects were correlated (r2=0.491; P=0.0012). Postoperatively, local SWA over frontal cortex was insufficient to cause delirium. Rather, delirium was associated with increased SWA involving occipitoparietal and frontal cortex, with an accompanying breakdown in functional connectivity. Changes in connectivity correlated with SWA (r2=0.257; P<0.0001), delirium severity rating (r2=0.195; P<0.001), interleukin 10 (r2=0.152; P=0.008), and monocyte chemoattractant protein 1 (r2=0.253; P<0.001). CONCLUSIONS Whilst frontal SWA occurs in all postoperative patients, delirium results when SWA progresses to involve posterior brain regions, with an associated reduction in connectivity in most subjects. Modifying SWA and connectivity may offer a novel therapeutic approach for delirium. CLINICAL TRIAL REGISTRATION NCT03124303, NCT02926417.
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- Sean Tanabe
- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA; Department of Radiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA; Center for Health Innovation and Implementation Science, Center for Aging Research, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Regenstrief Institute, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA; University of Sydney, Australia; Department of Anaesthetics, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Australia.
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Abstract
The ability of a variety of hormones to activate cells declines with age. We have investigated the mechanism for the reduced ability of beta adrenergic stimulation to activate lipolysis in fat cells from older rats. Previously, we have found that these cells have an intact lipolytic response to a cAMP analogue but diminished cAMP accumulation after isoproterenol stimulation, suggesting that the blunted cAMP response is rate limiting. In the present study we have tested the hypothesis that enhanced inhibition of lipolysis by endogenously released adenosine accounts for the diminished lipolysis. Adenosine deaminase was added to media containing the adipocytes from older rats to remove endogenous adenosine. Under these conditions beta adrenergic stimulation of lipolysis is intact in fat cells from older rats. The adenosine analogue N6-phenylisopropyladenosine more effectively inhibited lipolysis in the older group (77 +/- 6%) than in the younger group (46 +/- 5%), suggesting that enhanced efficacy of endogenous adenosine may account for the reduced lipolytic response to catecholamines. When pertussis vaccine was used to functionally inactivate adenosine receptors in adipocytes from the younger and older rats, the ability of isoproterenol to activate lipolysis was restored in the older group. All the data are consistent with the hypothesis that enhanced inhibitory effects of adenosine explain the diminished ability of beta adrenergic agonists to activate lipolysis. It is possible that enhanced inhibitory pathways may be involved in blunting responses to stimulatory hormones in other tissues from older animals.
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