Journal
NEUROIMAGE
Volume 118, Issue -, Pages 508-519Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.05.064
Keywords
Anti-NMDA-R encephalitis; EEG; Dynamical causal modelling (DCM); Seizures
Funding
- Wellcome Trust [088130/Z/09/Z]
- Swedish Brain Foundation [PS2013/0017]
- Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellowship [088130/Z/09/Z]
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/I017909/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/I017909/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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We characterised the pathophysiology of seizure onset in terms of slow fluctuations in synaptic efficacy using EEG in patients with anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDA-R) encephalitis. EEG recordings were obtained from two female patients with anti-NMDA-R encephalitis with recurrent partial seizures (ages 19 and 31). Focal electrographic seizure activity was localised using an empirical Bayes beamformer. The spectral density of reconstructed source activity was then characterised with dynamic causal modelling (DCM). Eight models were compared for each patient, to evaluate the relative contribution of changes in intrinsic (excitatory and inhibitory) connectivity and endogenous afferent input. Bayesian model comparison established a role for changes in both excitatory and inhibitory connectivity during seizure activity (in addition to changes in the exogenous input). Seizures in both patients were associated with a sequence of changes in inhibitory and excitatory connectivity; a transient increase in inhibitory connectivity followed by a transient increase in excitatory connectivity and a final peak of excitatory-inhibitory balance at seizure offset. These systematic fluctuations in excitatory and inhibitory gain may be characteristic of (anti NMDA-R encephalitis) seizures. We present these results as a case study and replication to motivate analyses of larger patient cohorts, to see whether our findings generalise and further characterise the mechanisms of seizure activity in anti-NMDA-R encephalitis. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc.
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