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Detection of subclinical epileptiform discharges in Alzheimer's disease using long-term outpatient EEG monitoring

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NEUROBIOLOGY OF DISEASE
卷 183, 期 -, 页码 -

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ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.nbd.2023.106149

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Subclinical epileptiform discharges; Alzheimer's disease; EEG; Long-term EEG; Ear-EEG; Wearable; Device

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In this study, it was found that most patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) had epileptiform discharges, with a three-fold higher frequency compared to healthy elderly controls (HC), which most likely originated from the temporal lobes. This result suggests that elevated spike frequency should be considered a marker of hyperexcitability in AD.
Background: In patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) without clinical seizures, up to half have epileptiform discharges on long-term in-patient electroencephalography (EEG) recordings. Long-term in-patient monitoring is obtrusive, and expensive as compared to outpatient monitoring. No studies have so far investigated if long-term outpatient EEG monitoring is able to identify epileptiform discharges in AD. Our aim is to investigate if epileptiform discharges as measured with ear-EEG are more common in patients with AD compared to healthy elderly controls (HC).Methods: In this longitudinal observational study, 24 patients with mild to moderate AD and 15 age-matched HC were included in the analysis. Patients with AD underwent up to three ear-EEG recordings, each lasting up to two days, within 6 months.Results: The first recording was defined as the baseline recording. At baseline, epileptiform discharges were detected in 75.0% of patients with AD and in 46.7% of HC (p-value = 0.073). The spike frequency (spikes or sharp waves/24 h) was significantly higher in patients with AD as compared to HC with a risk ratio of 2.90 (CI: 1.77-5.01, p < 0.001). Most patients with AD (91.7%) showed epileptiform discharges when combining all ear -EEG recordings.Conclusions: Long-term ear-EEG monitoring detects epileptiform discharges in most patients with AD with a three-fold increased spike frequency compared to HC, which most likely originates from the temporal lobes. Since most patients showed epileptiform discharges with multiple recordings, elevated spike frequency should be considered a marker of hyperexcitability in AD.

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