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The Significance of EEG Alpha Oscillation Spectral Power and Beta Oscillation Phase Synchronization for Diagnosing Probable Alzheimer Disease

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FRONTIERS IN AGING NEUROSCIENCE
卷 13, 期 -, 页码 -

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FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2021.631587

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Alzheimer disease; electroencephalogram (EEG); power spectrum; spectral entropy (SE); phase synchronization index

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  1. Scientific Research Common Program of Beijing Municipal Commission of Education [KM201810025015]
  2. Military Special Health Care Project [15BJZ38]

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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia in the geriatric population. Early diagnosis and intervention can delay its progression. Finding biomarkers suitable for AD screening and early diagnosis is important for timely intervention.
Alzheimer disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia in geriatric population. At present, no effective treatments exist to reverse the progress of AD, however, early diagnosis and intervention might delay its progression. The search for biomarkers with good safety, repeatable detection, reliable sensitivity and community application is necessary for AD screening and early diagnosis and timely intervention. Electroencephalogram (EEG) examination is a non-invasive, quantitative, reproducible, and cost-effective technique which is suitable for screening large population for possible AD. The power spectrum, complexity and synchronization characteristics of EEG waveforms in AD patients have distinct deviation from normal elderly, indicating these EEG features can be a promising candidate biomarker of AD. However, current reported deviation results are inconsistent, possibly due to multiple factors such as diagnostic criteria, sample sizes and the use of different computational measures. In this study, we collected two neurological tests scores (MMSE and MoCA) and the resting-state EEG of 30 normal control elderly subjects (NC group) and 30 probable AD patients confirmed by Pittsburgh compound B positron emission tomography (PiB-PET) inspection (AD group). We calculated the power spectrum, spectral entropy and phase synchronization index features of these two groups' EEG at left/right frontal, temporal, central and occipital brain regions in 4 frequency bands: delta oscillation (1-4 Hz), theta oscillation (4-8 Hz), alpha oscillation (8-13 Hz), and beta oscillation (13-30 Hz). In most brain areas, we found that the AD group had significant differences compared to NC group: (1) decreased alpha oscillation power and increased theta oscillation power; (2) decreased spectral entropy in alpha oscillation and elevated spectral entropy in beta oscillation; and (3) decrease phase synchronization index in delta, theta, and beta oscillation. We also found that alpha oscillation spectral power and beta oscillation phase synchronization index correlated well with the MMSE/MoCA test scores in AD groups. Our study suggests that these two EEG features might be useful metrics for population screening of probable AD patients.

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