EEG Power spectra and subcortical pathology in chronic disorders of consciousness

BACKGROUND: Despite a growing understanding of disorders of consciousness following severe brain injury, the association between long-term impairment of consciousness, spontaneous brain oscillations, and underlying subcortical damage, and the ability of such information to aid patient diagnosis, remains incomplete.

METHODS: Cross-sectional observational sample of 116 patients with a disorder of consciousness secondary to brain injury, collected prospectively at a tertiary center between 2011 and 2013. Multimodal analyses relating clinical measures of impairment, electroencephalographic measures of spontaneous brain activity, and magnetic resonance imaging data of subcortical atrophy were conducted in 2018.

RESULTS: In the final analyzed sample of 61 patients, systematic associations were found between electroencephalographic power spectra and subcortical damage. Specifically, the ratio of beta-to-delta relative power was negatively associated with greater atrophy in regions of the bilateral thalamus and globus pallidus (both left > right) previously shown to be preferentially atrophied in chronic disorders of consciousness. Power spectrum total density was also negatively associated with widespread atrophy in regions of the left globus pallidus, right caudate, and in the brainstem. Furthermore, we showed that the combination of demographics, encephalographic, and imaging data in an analytic framework can be employed to aid behavioral diagnosis.

CONCLUSIONS: These results ground, for the first time, electroencephalographic presentation detected with routine clinical techniques in the underlying brain pathology of disorders of consciousness and demonstrate how multimodal combination of clinical, electroencephalographic, and imaging data can be employed in potentially mitigating the high rates of misdiagnosis typical of this patient cohort.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:52

Enthalten in:

Psychological medicine - 52(2022), 8 vom: 14. Juni, Seite 1491-1500

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Lutkenhoff, Evan S [VerfasserIn]
Nigri, Anna [VerfasserIn]
Rossi Sebastiano, Davide [VerfasserIn]
Sattin, Davide [VerfasserIn]
Visani, Elisa [VerfasserIn]
Rosazza, Cristina [VerfasserIn]
D'Incerti, Ludovico [VerfasserIn]
Bruzzone, Maria Grazia [VerfasserIn]
Franceschetti, Silvana [VerfasserIn]
Leonardi, Matilde [VerfasserIn]
Ferraro, Stefania [VerfasserIn]
Monti, Martin M [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Consciousness
Electroencephalography
Journal Article
Magnetic resonance imaging
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Severe brain injury

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Date Completed 27.06.2022

Date Revised 06.07.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1017/S003329172000330X

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM315339608