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ArticleFrontiers in computational neuroscience2020

Inter-band Bispectral Analysis of EEG Background Activity to Characterize Alzheimer's Disease Continuum.

Aarón Maturana-Candelas, Carlos Gómez, Jesús Poza, Saúl J Ruiz-Gómez, Roberto Hornero

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Article in Frontiers in computational neuroscience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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  1. Diagnostic utility of electrophysiological markers for early and differential diagnosis of Alzheimer's, Frontotemporal, and Lewy Body dementias: A systematic review.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2025
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Aarón Maturana-CandelasBiomedical Engineering Group, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros, de Telecomunicación, Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain.
Carlos GómezBiomedical Engineering Group, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros, de Telecomunicación, Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain.
Jesús PozaBiomedical Engineering Group, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros, de Telecomunicación, Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain.
Saúl J Ruiz-GómezBiomedical Engineering Group, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros, de Telecomunicación, Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain.
Roberto HorneroBiomedical Engineering Group, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros, de Telecomunicación, Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The aim of this study was to characterize the EEG alterations in inter-band interactions along the Alzheimer's disease (AD) continuum. For this purpose, EEG background activity from 51 healthy control subjects, 51 mild cognitive impairment patients, 50 mild AD patients, 50 moderate AD patients, and 50 severe AD patients was analyzed by means of bispectrum. Three inter-band features were extracted from bispectrum matrices: bispectral relative power (BispRP), cubic bispectral entropy (BispEn), and bispectral median frequency (BispMF). BispRP results showed an increase of delta and theta interactions with other frequency bands and the opposite behavior for alpha, beta-1, and beta-2. Delta and theta interactions, along with the rest of the spectrum, also experimented a decrease of BispEn with disease progression, suggesting these bands interact with a reduced variety of components in advanced stages of dementia. Finally, BispMF showed a consistent reduction along the AD continuum in all bands, which is reflective of an interaction of the global spectrum with lower frequency bands as the disease develops. Our results indicate a progressive decrease in inter-band interactions with the severity of the disease, especially those involving high frequency components. Since inter-band coupling oscillations are related to complex and multi-scaled brain processes, these alterations likely reflect the neurodegeneration associated with the AD continuum.

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AD continuumAlzheimer's disease (AD)bispectrumelectroencephalography (EEG)interactionsmild cognitive impairment (MCI)

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PMCPMC7554631

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