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ArticleJournal of pain research2021

Altered EEG Brain Networks in Patients with Acute Peripheral Herpes Zoster.

Yan Zhou, Zhenqin Liu, Yuanmei Sun, Hao Zhang, Jianghai Ruan

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Article in Journal of pain research, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Yan ZhouDepartment of Neurology, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, 646000, People's Republic of China.
Zhenqin LiuDepartment of Dermatology, Jianyang People's Hospital, Jianyang, 641400, People's Republic of China.
Yuanmei SunDepartment of Dermatology, Chongqing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chongqing, 400010, People's Republic of China.
Hao ZhangDepartment of Neurology, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, 646000, People's Republic of China.
Jianghai RuanDepartment of Neurology, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, 646000, People's Republic of China.ORCID 0000-0002-0915-292X
Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University · CNFirst People's Hospital of Chongqing · CNFuyang City People's Hospital · CN

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Abstract

objectiveTo investigate whether the brain networks changed in patients with acute peripheral herpes zoster (HZ).

methodsWe reviewed the EEG database in Jianyang People's Hospital. Patients with acute HZ (n=71) were enrolled from January 2016 to December 2020. Each included subject underwent a ten-minute and 16-channel EEG examination. Five epochs of 10-second EEG data in resting-state were collected from each HZ patient. Five 10-second resting-state EEG epochs from sex- and age-matched healthy controls (HC, n=71) who reported no history of neurological or psychiatric disorders and visited the hospital for routine physical examinations were collected. Brain network and graph theory analysis based on phase locking value parameter and functional ICA were performed using a self-writing Matlab code and the LORETA KEY tool.

resultsCompared with the HC group, the HZ patients showed significant altered brain networks. The graph theory analysis revealed that the clustering coefficient and local efficiency of full band in HZ patients were lower than those in HC group (

conclusionAltered brain networks exist in resting-state EEG data of patients with acute HZ. The changes of EEG brain networks in HZ patients are characterized by decreased global efficiency and local efficiency in beta band. Moreover, the spontaneous oscillation of some brain regions involving pain management and the connectivity of default mode network changed in HZ patients. Our study provided novel understanding of HZ from an electrophysiological view, and led to converging evidence for treatment of HZ with neural regulation in future.

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brain networkgraph theory analysisherpes zosterindependent component analysisphase locking value

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