scholarly journals Resting state connectivity differences in eyes open versus eyes closed conditions

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (8) ◽  
pp. 2488-2498 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oktay Agcaoglu ◽  
Tony W. Wilson ◽  
Yu‐Ping Wang ◽  
Julia Stephen ◽  
Vince D. Calhoun
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 504-519
Author(s):  
Oktay Agcaoglu ◽  
Tony W. Wilson ◽  
Yu-Ping Wang ◽  
Julia M. Stephen ◽  
Vince D. Calhoun

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria J. S. Guerreiro ◽  
Madita Linke ◽  
Sunitha Lingareddy ◽  
Ramesh Kekunnaya ◽  
Brigitte Röder

AbstractLower resting-state functional connectivity (RSFC) between ‘visual’ and non-‘visual’ neural circuits has been reported as a hallmark of congenital blindness. In sighted individuals, RSFC between visual and non-visual brain regions has been shown to increase during rest with eyes closed relative to rest with eyes open. To determine the role of visual experience on the modulation of RSFC by resting state condition—as well as to evaluate the effect of resting state condition on group differences in RSFC—, we compared RSFC between visual and somatosensory/auditory regions in congenitally blind individuals (n = 9) and sighted participants (n = 9) during eyes open and eyes closed conditions. In the sighted group, we replicated the increase of RSFC between visual and non-visual areas during rest with eyes closed relative to rest with eyes open. This was not the case in the congenitally blind group, resulting in a lower RSFC between ‘visual’ and non-‘visual’ circuits relative to sighted controls only in the eyes closed condition. These results indicate that visual experience is necessary for the modulation of RSFC by resting state condition and highlight the importance of considering whether sighted controls should be tested with eyes open or closed in studies of functional brain reorganization as a consequence of blindness.


2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Blackburn ◽  
Yifan Zhao ◽  
Matteo De Marco ◽  
Simon Bell ◽  
Fei He ◽  
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Background: The incidence of Alzheimer disease (AD) is increasing with the ageing population. The development of low cost non-invasive diagnostic aids for AD is a research priority. This pilot study investigated whether an approach based on a novel dynamic quantitative parametric EEG method could detect abnormalities in people with AD. Methods: 20 patients with probable AD, 20 matched healthy controls (HC) and 4 patients with probable fronto temporal dementia (FTD) were included. All had detailed neuropsychology along with structural, resting state fMRI and EEG. EEG data were analyzed using the Error Reduction Ratio-causality (ERR-causality) test that can capture both linear and nonlinear interactions between different EEG recording areas. The 95% confidence intervals of EEG levels of bi-centroparietal synchronization were estimated for eyes open (EO) and eyes closed (EC) states. Results: In the EC state, AD patients and HC had very similar levels of bi-centro parietal synchronization; but in the EO resting state, patients with AD had significantly higher levels of synchronization (AD = 0.44; interquartile range (IQR) 0.41 vs. HC = 0.15; IQR 0.17, p < 0.0001). The EO/EC synchronization ratio, a measure of the dynamic changes between the two states, also showed significant differences between these two groups (AD ratio 0.78 versus HC ratio 0.37 p < 0.0001). EO synchronization was also significantly different between AD and FTD (FTD = 0.075; IQR 0.03, p < 0.0001). However, the EO/EC ratio was not informative in the FTD group due to very low levels of synchronization in both states (EO and EC). Conclusion: In this pilot work, resting state quantitative EEG shows significant differences between healthy controls and patients with AD. This approach has the potential to develop into a useful non-invasive and economical diagnostic aid in AD.


Author(s):  
David Darmon ◽  
Tomas Watanabe ◽  
Christopher Cellucci ◽  
Paul E Rapp

Multichannel EEGs were obtained from healthy participants in the eyes-closed no-task condition (where the alpha component is typically abolished). EEG dynamics in the two conditions were quantified with two related binary Lempel-Ziv measures of the first principal component and with three measures of integrated information including the more recently proposed integrated synergy. Both integrated information and integrated synergy with model order p=1 had greater values in the eyes closed condition. If the model order of integrated synergy was determined with the Bayesian Information Criterion, this pattern was reversed, and in common with other measures, integrated synergy was greater in the eyes open condition. Eyes open versus eyes closed separation was quantified by calculation of the between-condition effect size. Lempel-Ziv complexity of the first principal component showed greater separation than the measures of integrated information. The performance of the integrated information measures investigated here when distinguishing between indisputably different physiological states encourages caution when advocating for their use as measures of consciousness.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Spinelli ◽  
Alexandre Odouard ◽  
Marie-Cécile Nierat ◽  
Sébastien Campion ◽  
Mickael Bensoussan ◽  
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AbstractWearable EEG systems have become accessible to researchers and clinicians over the last decade, thus requiring neurotechnology companies to seek for outstanding EEG signal quality. Here, we show that the melomind™ headset equipped with dry electrodes (myBrain Technologies, Paris, France) allows the recording of reliable electro-cortical dynamics as compared to a wet-based standard-EEG system (actiCAP, Brain Products GmbH, Gilching, Germany). EEGs were acquired simultaneously from the two systems while thirteen subjects underwent a visual oddball, a steady-state visually-evoked potentials (SSVEPs) and two resting-state (RS) tasks. RS were acquired with eyes-closed and eyes-open (2 minutes each) and repeated twice (before and after the cognitive tasks). During the oddball task, participants responded on a gamepad when a target-stimulus was displayed. In the SSVEPs, visual responses were elicited at 15 and 20 Hz through a series of 15-second stimuli presented 5 times each. The power of theta- [4-8 Hz], alpha- [8-13 Hz], and beta- [13-30 Hz] band was extracted from the two RS. The signal-to-noise-ratio in the 15 (± 1) and 20 (± 1) Hz range was computed from the SSVEPs. The shape of the N2/P300 complex was analysed from the oddball task. Strong correlations resulted between the parameters obtained from the two EEG systems (0.53 < Pearson’s r < 0.97). Bland and Altman analysis revealed small dissimilarities between the two systems, with values laying in the 95% confidence interval in all the tasks. Our results demonstrate that the melomind™ is an affordable solution to reliably assess humans’ electro-cortical dynamics at-rest and during cognitive tasks, thus paving the way to its use in neuroscience studies and brain-computer interfaces.


2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maryam Falahpour ◽  
Catie Chang ◽  
Chi Wah Wong ◽  
Thomas T. Liu

AbstractChanges in vigilance or alertness during a typical resting state fMRI scan are inevitable and have been found to affect measures of functional brain connectivity. Since it is not often feasible to monitor vigilance with EEG during fMRI scans, it would be of great value to have methods for estimating vigilance levels from fMRI data alone. A recent study, conducted in macaque monkeys, proposed a template-based approach for fMRI-based estimation of vigilance fluctuations. Here, we use simultaneously acquired EEG/fMRI data to investigate whether the same template-based approach can be employed to estimate vigilance fluctuations of awake humans across different resting-state conditions. We first demonstrate that the spatial pattern of correlations between EEG-defined vigilance and fMRI in our data is consistent with the previous literature. Notably, however, we observed a significant difference between the eyes-closed (EC) and eyes-open (EO) conditions finding stronger negative correlations with vigilance in regions forming the default mode network and higher positive correlations in thalamus and insula in the EC condition when compared to the EO condition. Taking these correlation maps as “templates” for vigilance estimation, we found that the template-based approach produced fMRI-based vigilance estimates that were significantly correlated with EEG-based vigilance measures, indicating its generalizability from macaques to humans. We also demonstrate that the performance of this method was related to the overall amount of variability in a subject’s vigilance state, and that the template-based approach outperformed the use of the global signal as a vigilance estimator. In addition, we show that the template-based approach can be used to estimate the variability across scans in the amplitude of the vigilance fluctuations. We discuss the benefits and tradeoffs of using the template-based approach in future fMRI studies.


Author(s):  
Delong Zhang ◽  
Bishan Liang ◽  
Xia Wu ◽  
Zengjian Wang ◽  
Pengfei Xu ◽  
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