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ArticlemedRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences2025

Proof-of-Concept Validation of Noninvasive Detection of Cortical Spreading Depolarization with High Resolution Direct Current-Electroencephalography with Future Device Recommendations.

Benjamin R Brown, Samuel J Hund, Kirk A Easley, Eric L Singer, C William Shuttleworth, Andrew P Carlson, Stephen C Jones

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Article in medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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7 authors.

Benjamin R BrownCerebroScope, the dba entity of SciencePlusPlease LLC, 4165 Blair St., Pittsburgh, PA 15207-1508, USA.
Samuel J HundCerebroScope, the dba entity of SciencePlusPlease LLC, 4165 Blair St., Pittsburgh, PA 15207-1508, USA.
Kirk A EasleyDepartment of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, 1518 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4419-2617
Eric L SingerCerebroScope, the dba entity of SciencePlusPlease LLC, 4165 Blair St., Pittsburgh, PA 15207-1508, USA.
C William ShuttleworthDepartment of Neurosciences, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM, USA.
Andrew P CarlsonDepartment of Neurosurgery, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
Stephen C JonesCerebroScope, the dba entity of SciencePlusPlease LLC, 4165 Blair St., Pittsburgh, PA 15207-1508, USA.

Funding

MR DIFFUSION AND SPECTROSCOPIC IMAGING FOR ACUTE STROKER01NS030839 · NINDS · CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION · PI JONES, STEPHEN CARTER · 1994 to 2009
$2.6M
Noninvasive scalp detection of cortical spreading depression for brain injuryR43NS092181 · NINDS · SCIENCEPLUSPLEASE, LLC · PI JONES, STEPHEN CARTER · 2016 to 2018
$743k
Ischemic Edge Dynamics in Ischemic Stroke: Potassium and the Blood-Brain BarrierR21NS066292 · NINDS · ALLEGHENY-SINGER RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI JONES, STEPHEN CARTER · 2009 to 2010
$416k
NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS030839NINDS NIH HHS R21 NS066292NINDS NIH HHS R43 NS092181
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background/Objective: Cortical spreading depolarization (SD) is increasingly recognized as a major contributor to secondary brain injury. Noninvasive SD monitoring would enable the institution of SD-based therapeutics. Our primary objective is to establish proof-of-concept validation that scalp DC-potentials can provide noninvasive SD detection by comparing scalp direct-current (DC)-shifts from a high-density electrode array to SDs detected by gold-standard electrocorticography (ECoG). Our secondary objective is to assess usability and artifact tolerance. Methods: An 83×58 mm thermoplastic elastomer array with 29 6-mm diameter Ag/AgCl 1-cm spaced electrodes, the CerebroPatch Results: Usability and artifact issues obscured most scalp Prototype device data of the 140 ECoG-coded SDs during 11 days in one sub-arachnoid hemorrhage patient. Twenty-six of these DC-shifts were in readable, artifact-free portions of scalp recordings and 24 of these had a >0.80 Coefficient-of-Determination (0.98[0.02], median[IQR]) between invasive ECoG and noninvasive Prototype device DC-shifts. Reconstructed heat-map movies of the scalp DC-potentials showed a 5-cm extent, -460 μV peak region that persisted for ~70 sec. These data suggest that these scalp DC-shifts (peak -457±69 μV [mean±StD], full-width-half maximum 70.9±5.92 sec, area 18.7±2.76 cm Conclusions: These results using 26 SDs as the observational units suggest that noninvasive SD detection is possible using scalp DC-potential signals with a high spatial resolution EEG array. Although the high artifact burden data and low usability records were limiting, negative results, they serve as an important entrepreneurial recipe that provides suggestions for a future, re-designed device that would reduce artifacts and improve usability for DC-EEG SD detection needed to enable multi-modal monitoring for secondary brain injury.

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Cortical Spreading DepolarizationDC-EEGElectrocorticographyElectroencephalographyMedical deviceNoninvasive DetectionSecondary brain injury

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PMID39606369
PMCPMC11601781

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