Scientific article
OA Policy
English

The behavioral significance of coherent resting-state oscillations after stroke

Published inNeuroImage, vol. 61, no. 1, p. 249-257
Publication date2012
Abstract

Stroke lesions induce not only loss of local neural function, but disruptions in spatially distributed areas. However, it is unknown whether they affect the synchrony of electrical oscillations in neural networks and if changes in network coherence are associated with neurological deficits. This study assessed these questions in a population of patients with subacute, unilateral, ischemic stroke. Spontaneous cortical oscillations were reconstructed from high-resolution electroencephalograms (EEG) with adaptive spatial filters. Maps of functional connectivity (FC) between brain areas were created and correlated with patient performance in motor and cognitive scores. In comparison to age matched healthy controls, stroke patients showed a selective disruption of FC in the alpha frequency range. The spatial distribution of alpha band FC reflected the pattern of motor and cognitive deficits of the individual patient: network nodes that participate normally in the affected functions showed local decreases in FC with the rest of the brain. Interregional FC in the alpha band, but not in delta, theta, or beta frequencies, was highly correlated with motor and cognitive performance. In contrast, FC between contralesional areas and the rest of the brain was negatively associated with patient performance. Alpha oscillation synchrony at rest is a unique and specific marker of network function and linearly associated with behavioral performance. Maps of alpha synchrony computed from a single resting-state EEG recording provide a robust and convenient window into the functionality and organization of cortical networks with numerous potential applications.

Citation (ISO format)
DUBOVIK, Sviatlana et al. The behavioral significance of coherent resting-state oscillations after stroke. In: NeuroImage, 2012, vol. 61, n° 1, p. 249–257. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.03.024
Main files (1)
Article (Accepted version)
accessLevelPublic
Identifiers
ISSN of the journal1053-8119
816views
880downloads

Technical informations

Creation04/03/2012 4:38:00 PM
First validation04/03/2012 4:38:00 PM
Update time10/21/2024 1:00:12 PM
Status update03/14/2023 5:22:13 PM
Last indexation10/29/2024 7:19:42 PM
All rights reserved by Archive ouverte UNIGE and the University of GenevaunigeBlack