期刊
CLINICAL NEUROPHYSIOLOGY
卷 123, 期 11, 页码 2154-2162出版社
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2012.04.025
关键词
Life span; Ageing; Complexity; Brain development; White matter development
资金
- Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad
- FEDER [TEC 2011-22987]
Objective: Considering the increasing use of complexity estimates in neuropsychiatric populations, a normative study is critical to define the 'normal' behaviour of brain oscillatory complexity across the life span. Method: This study examines changes in resting-state magnetoencephalogram (MEG) complexity quantified with the Lempel-Ziv complexity (LZC) algorithm - due to age and gender in a large sample of 222 (100 males/122 females) healthy participants with ages ranging from 7 to 84 years. Results: A significant quadratic (curvilinear) relationship (p < 0.05) between age and complexity was found, with LZC maxima being reached by the sixth decade of life. Once that peak was crossed, complexity values slowly decreased until late senescence. Females exhibited higher LZC values than males, with significant differences in the anterior, central and posterior regions (p < 0.05). Conclusions: These results suggest that the evolution of brain oscillatory complexity across the life span might be considered a new illustration of a 'normal' physiological rhythm. Significance: Previous and forthcoming clinical studies using complexity estimates might be interpreted from a more complete and dynamical perspective. Pathologies not only cause an 'abnormal' increase or decrease of complexity values but they actually 'break' the 'normal' pattern of oscillatory complexity evolution as a function of age. (C) 2012 International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology. Published by Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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