Alpha desynchronization during Stroop test unmasks cognitively healthy individuals with abnormal CSF Amyloid/Tau

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Synaptic dysfunctions precede cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease by decades, affect executive functions, and can be detected by quantitative electroencephalography (qEEG). We used quantitative electroencephalography combined with Stroop testing to identify changes of inhibitory controls in cognitively healthy individuals with an abnormal versus normal ratio of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) amyloid/total-tau. We studied two groups of participants (60-94 years) with either normal (CH-NAT or controls, n = 20) or abnormal (CH-PAT, n = 21) CSF amyloid/tau ratio. We compared: alpha event-related desynchronization (ERD), alpha spectral entropy (SE), and their relationships with estimated cognitive reserve. CH-PATs had more negative occipital alpha ERD, and higher frontal and occipital alpha SE during low load congruent trials, indicating hyperactivity. CH-PATs demonstrated fewer frontal SE changes with higher load, incongruent Stroop testing. Correlations of alpha ERD with estimated cognitive reserve were significant in CH-PATs but not in CH-NATs. These results suggested compensatory hyperactivity in CH-PATs compared to CH-NATs. We did not find differences in alpha ERD comparisons with individual CSF amyloid(A), p-tau(T), total-tau(N) biomarkers.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:112

Enthalten in:

Neurobiology of aging - 112(2022) vom: 15. Apr., Seite 87-101

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Arakaki, Xianghong [VerfasserIn]
Hung, Shao-Min [VerfasserIn]
Rochart, Roger [VerfasserIn]
Fonteh, Alfred N [VerfasserIn]
Harrington, Michael G [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Alpha event-related desynchronization
Amyloid beta-Peptides
Biomarkers
CH-NATs
CH-PATs
Electroencephalography
Journal Article
Peptide Fragments
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Spectral entropy
Stroop
Tau Proteins

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Date Completed 05.04.2022

Date Revised 02.04.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2021.11.009

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM336008929