FAST functional connectivity implicates P300 connectivity in working memory deficits in Alzheimer's disease

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Autori principali: Roy, Om, Moshfeghi, Yashar, Ibanez, Agustin, Lopera, Francisco, Parra, Mario A, Smith, Keith M
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author Roy, Om
Moshfeghi, Yashar
Ibanez, Agustin
Lopera, Francisco
Parra, Mario A
Smith, Keith M
author_facet Roy, Om
Moshfeghi, Yashar
Ibanez, Agustin
Lopera, Francisco
Parra, Mario A
Smith, Keith M
contents Measuring transient functional connectivity is an important challenge in Electroencephalogram (EEG) research. Here, the rich potential for insightful, discriminative information of brain activity offered by high temporal resolution is confounded by the inherent noise of the medium and the spurious nature of correlations computed over short temporal windows. We propose a novel methodology to overcome these problems called Filter Average Short-Term (FAST) functional connectivity. First, long-term, stable, functional connectivity is averaged across an entire study cohort for a given pair of Visual Short Term Memory (VSTM) tasks. The resulting average connectivity matrix, containing information on the strongest general connections for the tasks, is used as a filter to analyse the transient high temporal resolution functional connectivity of individual subjects. In simulations, we show that this method accurately discriminates differences in noisy Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) between two conditions where standard connectivity and other comparable methods fail. We then apply this to analyse activity related to visual short-term memory binding deficits in two cohorts of familial and sporadic Alzheimer's disease. Reproducible significant differences were found in the binding task with no significant difference in the shape task in the P300 ERP range. This allows new sensitive measurements of transient functional connectivity, which can be implemented to obtain results of clinical significance.
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spellingShingle FAST functional connectivity implicates P300 connectivity in working memory deficits in Alzheimer's disease
Roy, Om
Moshfeghi, Yashar
Ibanez, Agustin
Lopera, Francisco
Parra, Mario A
Smith, Keith M
Neurons and Cognition
Signal Processing
Measuring transient functional connectivity is an important challenge in Electroencephalogram (EEG) research. Here, the rich potential for insightful, discriminative information of brain activity offered by high temporal resolution is confounded by the inherent noise of the medium and the spurious nature of correlations computed over short temporal windows. We propose a novel methodology to overcome these problems called Filter Average Short-Term (FAST) functional connectivity. First, long-term, stable, functional connectivity is averaged across an entire study cohort for a given pair of Visual Short Term Memory (VSTM) tasks. The resulting average connectivity matrix, containing information on the strongest general connections for the tasks, is used as a filter to analyse the transient high temporal resolution functional connectivity of individual subjects. In simulations, we show that this method accurately discriminates differences in noisy Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) between two conditions where standard connectivity and other comparable methods fail. We then apply this to analyse activity related to visual short-term memory binding deficits in two cohorts of familial and sporadic Alzheimer's disease. Reproducible significant differences were found in the binding task with no significant difference in the shape task in the P300 ERP range. This allows new sensitive measurements of transient functional connectivity, which can be implemented to obtain results of clinical significance.
title FAST functional connectivity implicates P300 connectivity in working memory deficits in Alzheimer's disease
topic Neurons and Cognition
Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18489