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- Title
Relationship between Power Spectra of the Awake EEG and Psychomotor Activity Patterns Measured by Short-Term Actigraphy.
- Authors
Pjrek, Edda; Pezawas, Lukas; Presslich, Otto; Tauscher, Johannes; Kasper, Siegfried; Winkler, Dietmar
- Abstract
Actigraphy is a quantitative method for the measurement of motor activity. In the present study, actigraphy was used to examine psychomotor correlates of brain activity. Thirty-four psychiatric patients (17 males and 17 females) with different diagnoses participated in this investigation. Directly after EEG recording, motor activity was measured with a wrist actimeter for 15 min in patients in the sitting position. The EEG was quantified by spectrum analysis, and the power spectra as well as other EEG-derived variables were correlated with actigraphic parameters. Occipital and temporoparietal β1 power was statistically significantly higher in patients with higher activity scores and lower in those with a high density of sleep (SB) or wake bouts (WB). A high density of SB or WB was also positively correlated with higher mean α power. Immobile phases measured by actigraphy were positively associated with occipital α and with frontal/frontopolar δ activity, preferentially on the side of the left hemisphere. Our results, while preliminary, suggest that short-term actigraphy may be apt to reflect central nervous system arousal. Copyright © 2003 S. Karger AG, Basel
- Subjects
ACTIGRAPHY; PERCEPTUAL motor learning; PSYCHOTHERAPY patients; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; SPECTRUM analysis; OCCIPITAL lobe; CENTRAL nervous system
- Publication
Neuropsychobiology, 2003, Vol 48, Issue 4, p176
- ISSN
0302-282X
- Publication type
Article