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Main Authors: He, Jiangshan, Xie, Hui, Yang, Yuqiang, Jia, Chunli, Liang, Dan, Zhang, Lianghua, Wang, Xiaoyu, Luo, Tianyi, Dong, Zexiao, Yang, Huiting, Yuan, Zhen, Jiang, Mingzhe, Chen, Xueli
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.21265
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author He, Jiangshan
Xie, Hui
Yang, Yuqiang
Jia, Chunli
Liang, Dan
Zhang, Lianghua
Wang, Xiaoyu
Luo, Tianyi
Dong, Zexiao
Yang, Huiting
Yuan, Zhen
Jiang, Mingzhe
Chen, Xueli
author_facet He, Jiangshan
Xie, Hui
Yang, Yuqiang
Jia, Chunli
Liang, Dan
Zhang, Lianghua
Wang, Xiaoyu
Luo, Tianyi
Dong, Zexiao
Yang, Huiting
Yuan, Zhen
Jiang, Mingzhe
Chen, Xueli
contents Transcranial photobiomodulation (tPBM) therapy is an emerging, non-invasive neuromodulation technique that has demonstrated considerable potential in the field of neuropsychiatric disorders. Several studies have found that pulsed wave (PW) tPBM therapy yields superior biomodulatory effects. However, its neural mechanisms are still unknown which poses a significant barrier to the development of an optimized protocol. A randomized, single-blind study including 29 participants was conducted using a crossover design, with sham and continuous wave (CW) groups as controls. The EEG microstate analysis was utilized to explore the relative variations in temporal parameters and brain functional connectivity. To further elucidate the dynamic activity patterns of microstates, a 10-repeat 10-fold cross-validation with nine machine learning algorithms and kernel Shapley additive explanations analysis was employed. Results indicated that the pulsed wave mode enhanced the global efficiency, local efficiency, and betweenness centrality of microstate C in brain functional networks as well as the mean durations parameter achieving a middle to large effect size, with superior effects compared to the sham and continuous wave groups. Furthermore, the support vector machine based on the radial basis function method with kernel Shapley additive explanations analysis demonstrated the best performance with an area under the curve (AUC) reaching 0.956, and found that the 8 of top-10 microstate features related to microstate C contributed most significantly to the PW mode. In conclusion, the EEG microstate analysis found that PW tPBM therapy modulates the microstate C-specific patterns in the human brain, suggesting that microstate dynamics may serve as a state-dependent biomarker for the optimization of tPBM protocol.
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spellingShingle EEG Dynamic Microstate Patterns Induced by Pulsed Wave Transcranial Photobiomodulation Therapy
He, Jiangshan
Xie, Hui
Yang, Yuqiang
Jia, Chunli
Liang, Dan
Zhang, Lianghua
Wang, Xiaoyu
Luo, Tianyi
Dong, Zexiao
Yang, Huiting
Yuan, Zhen
Jiang, Mingzhe
Chen, Xueli
Neurons and Cognition
Transcranial photobiomodulation (tPBM) therapy is an emerging, non-invasive neuromodulation technique that has demonstrated considerable potential in the field of neuropsychiatric disorders. Several studies have found that pulsed wave (PW) tPBM therapy yields superior biomodulatory effects. However, its neural mechanisms are still unknown which poses a significant barrier to the development of an optimized protocol. A randomized, single-blind study including 29 participants was conducted using a crossover design, with sham and continuous wave (CW) groups as controls. The EEG microstate analysis was utilized to explore the relative variations in temporal parameters and brain functional connectivity. To further elucidate the dynamic activity patterns of microstates, a 10-repeat 10-fold cross-validation with nine machine learning algorithms and kernel Shapley additive explanations analysis was employed. Results indicated that the pulsed wave mode enhanced the global efficiency, local efficiency, and betweenness centrality of microstate C in brain functional networks as well as the mean durations parameter achieving a middle to large effect size, with superior effects compared to the sham and continuous wave groups. Furthermore, the support vector machine based on the radial basis function method with kernel Shapley additive explanations analysis demonstrated the best performance with an area under the curve (AUC) reaching 0.956, and found that the 8 of top-10 microstate features related to microstate C contributed most significantly to the PW mode. In conclusion, the EEG microstate analysis found that PW tPBM therapy modulates the microstate C-specific patterns in the human brain, suggesting that microstate dynamics may serve as a state-dependent biomarker for the optimization of tPBM protocol.
title EEG Dynamic Microstate Patterns Induced by Pulsed Wave Transcranial Photobiomodulation Therapy
topic Neurons and Cognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.21265