ArticleJournal of psychiatric research2021
Resting posterior alpha power and adolescent major depressive disorder.
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- Electroencephalography-based endogenous phenotype of diagnostic transition from major depressive disorder to bipolar disorder.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Sex moderates the effect of anhedonia on parietal alpha asymmetry.Journal of psychiatric research · 2024Article
- Alpha oscillation mediates the interaction between suicide risk and symptom severity in Major Depressive Disorder.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Article
- Analysis of EEG features and study of automatic classification in first-episode and drug-naïve patients with major depressive disorder.BMC psychiatry · 2023Article
- The Link between Suicidality and Electroencephalography Asymmetry: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Clinical psychopharmacology and neuroscience : the official scientific journal of the Korean College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2023Review
- A review of critical brain oscillations in depression and the efficacy of transcranial magnetic stimulation treatment.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Review
- The Role of Alpha Oscillations among the Main Neuropsychiatric Disorders in the Adult and Developing Human Brain: Evidence from the Last 10 Years of Research.Biomedicines · 2022Review
- Abnormalities in Electroencephalographic Microstates Among Adolescents With First Episode Major Depressive Disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
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Abstract
For several decades, resting electroencephalogram (EEG) alpha oscillations have been used to characterize neurophysiological alterations related to major depressive disorder. Prior research has generally focused on frontal alpha power and asymmetry despite resting alpha being maximal over posterior electrode sites. Research in depressed adults has shown evidence of hemispheric asymmetry for posterior alpha power, however, the resting posterior alpha-depression link among adolescents remains unclear. To clarify the role of posterior alpha among depressed adolescents, the current study acquired eyes-closed 128-channel resting EEG data from 13 to 18 year-old depressed (n = 31) and healthy (n = 35) female adolescents. Results indicated a significant group by hemisphere interaction, as depressed adolescents exhibited significantly larger posterior alpha (i.e., lower brain activity) over the right versus left hemisphere, whereas healthy adolescents showed no hemispheric differences. Relatively greater alpha over the right versus left hemisphere correlated with depression symptoms, anhedonia symptoms, rumination, and self-criticism. Further, depressed adolescents had reduced overall posterior alpha compared to healthy youth; though, no associations with symptoms and related traits emerged. Resting posterior alpha may be a promising neurophysiological index of adolescent depression, and more broadly, may relate to risk factors characterized by enhanced perseveration.
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