ArticleBrain communications2025
Normative high-frequency oscillation phase-amplitude coupling and effective connectivity under sevoflurane.
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- Whole-brain millisecond-scale effective connectivity of auditory and visual naming.NeuroImage · 2026Article
- Common Data Elements for Preclinical High-Frequency Oscillations in Epilepsy.Epilepsy currents · 2026Review
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Abstract
Resective surgery for paediatric drug-resistant focal epilepsy often requires extraoperative intracranial electroencephalography recording to accurately localize the epileptogenic zone. This procedure entails multiple neurosurgeries, intracranial electrode implantation and explantation, and days of invasive in-patient evaluation. There is a need for methods to reduce the diagnostic burden and introduce objective epilepsy biomarkers. Our preliminary studies aimed to address these issues by using sevoflurane anaesthesia to rapidly and reversibly activate intraoperative phase-amplitude coupling between delta and high-frequency activities, as well as high-frequency activity-based effective connectivity. Phase-amplitude coupling can serve as a proxy for spike-and-wave discharges, and effective connectivity describes the spatiotemporal dynamics of neural information flow among regions. Notably, sevoflurane activated these interictal electrocorticography biomarkers most robustly in areas whose resection led to seizure freedom. However, they were also increased in normative brain regions that did not require removal for seizure control. Before using these electrocorticography biomarkers prospectively to guide resection, we should understand their endogenous distribution and propagation pathways at different anaesthetic stages. In the current study, we highlighted the normative distribution of delta and high-frequency activity phase-amplitude coupling and effective connectivity under sevoflurane. Normative data were derived from 19 patients, whose ages ranged from 4 to 18 years and included 11 males. All achieved seizure control following focal resection. Electrocorticography was recorded at an isoflurane baseline, during stepwise increases in sevoflurane concentration, and also during extraoperative slow-wave sleep without anaesthesia. Normative electrode sites were then mapped onto a standard cortical surface for anatomical visualization. Dynamic tractography traced white matter pathways that connected sites with significantly augmented biomarkers. Finally, we analysed all sites-regardless of normal or abnormal status-to determine whether sevoflurane-enhanced biomarker values could intraoperatively localize the epileptogenic sites. We found that normative electrocorticography biomarkers increased as a function of sevoflurane concentration, especially in bilateral frontal and parietal lobe regions (Bonferroni-corrected
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