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ArticleNeurology2025

Quantitative EEG Biomarkers in the Genetic Epilepsies and Associations With Neurologic Outcomes.

Peter D Galer, Jillian L McKee, Sarah M Ruggiero, Michael C Kaufman, William K S Ojemann, Ian McSalley, Shiva Ganesan, Alexander K Gonzalez, Quy Cao, Brian Litt and 2 more

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Article in Neurology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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12 authors.

Peter D GalerDivision of Neurology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA.ORCID 0000-0002-6408-0906
Jillian L McKeeDivision of Neurology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA.ORCID 0000-0001-9724-0403
Sarah M RuggieroDivision of Neurology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA.ORCID 0000-0002-0834-0750
Michael C KaufmanDivision of Neurology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA.ORCID 0000-0003-2718-296X
William K S OjemannCenter for Neuroengineering and Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Ian McSalleyDepartment of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA.
Shiva GanesanDivision of Neurology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA.
Alexander K GonzalezDepartment of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA.ORCID 0000-0002-4402-398X
Quy CaoDepartment of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA.ORCID 0000-0002-6204-1305
Brian LittCenter for Neuroengineering and Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.ORCID 0000-0003-2732-6927
Ingo HelbigDivision of Neurology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA.ORCID 0000-0001-8486-0558
Erin C ConradCenter for Neuroengineering and Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.ORCID 0000-0001-8910-1817

Funding

Ghost in the Machine: Melding Brain, Computer and BehaviorDP1NS122038 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI LITT, BRIAN · 2020 to 2024
$5.7M
A computational phenotyping approach to characterize neurogenetic disordersR01NS131512 · NINDS · CHILDREN'S HOSP OF PHILADELPHIA · PI Ingo Helbig · 2023 to 2026
$2.8M
Subgroup delineation in genetic epilepsies and developmental brain disordersR01NS127830 · NINDS · CHILDREN'S HOSP OF PHILADELPHIA · PI Ingo Helbig · 2023 to 2026
$2.8M
ClinGen Expert Curation Panel for the EpilepsiesU24NS120854 · NINDS · ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL · PI Ingo Helbig, HEATHER C. MEFFORD · 2021 to 2026
$2.0M
Quantitative interictal networks to localize seizure generatorsK23NS121401 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI Erin Conrad · 2022 to 2026
$1.2M
Joint analysis of genomic and electronic medical record data to assess outcomes and drug response in pediatric epilepsiesK02NS112600 · NINDS · CHILDREN'S HOSP OF PHILADELPHIA · PI HELBIG, INGO · 2020 to 2024
$963k
NINDS NIH HHS DP1 NS122038NINDS NIH HHS K02 NS112600NINDS NIH HHS K23 NS121401NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS127830NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS131512NINDS NIH HHS U24 NS120854
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND

objectivesEEG plays an integral part in the diagnosis and management of children with genetic epilepsies. Nevertheless, how quantitative EEG features differ between genetic epilepsies and neurologic outcomes remains largely unknown. In this study, we aimed to identify quantitative EEG biomarkers in

methodsWe retrospectively collected clinical scalp EEGs from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. After removing artifacts and epochs with excess noise or altered state from EEGs, we extracted spectral features. We validated our preprocessing pipeline by comparing automatically detected posterior dominant rhythm (PDR) with annotations from clinical EEG reports. Next, as a coarse measure of pathologic slowing, we compared the alpha-delta bandpower ratio between controls and patients with different genetic epilepsies. We then trained random forest models with localized spectral features to predict diagnoses of

resultsWe evaluated EEGs from individuals with pathogenic variants in DISCUSSION: These results suggest that some genetic epilepsies and functional outcome measures have distinct quantitative EEG signatures. Furthermore, EEG spectral features are predictive of some functional outcome measures. Large-scale retrospective quantitative analysis of clinical EEGs has the potential to discover novel biomarkers and to quantify and track individuals' disease progression across development.

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ElectroencephalographyEpilepsyAdolescentBiomarkersChildChild, PreschoolFemaleHumansInfantMaleMunc18 ProteinsNAV1.1 Voltage-Gated Sodium Channelras GTPase-Activating ProteinsRetrospective StudiesBiomarkersMunc18 ProteinsNAV1.1 Voltage-Gated Sodium Channelras GTPase-Activating ProteinsSCN1A protein, humanSTXBP1 protein, humanSYNGAP1 protein, human

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PMID40986432
PMCPMC13446166

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