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- Title
Detecting Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Using Resting State Magnetoencephalographic Connectivity.
- Authors
Vakorin, Vasily A.; Doesburg, Sam M.; da Costa, Leodante; Jetly, Rakesh; Pang, Elizabeth W.; Taylor, Margot J.
- Abstract
Accurate means to detect mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) using objective and quantitative measures remain elusive. Conventional imaging typically detects no abnormalities despite post-concussive symptoms. In the present study, we recorded resting state magnetoencephalograms (MEG) from adults with mTBI and controls. Atlas-guided reconstruction of resting state activity was performed for 90 cortical and subcortical regions, and calculation of inter-regional oscillatory phase synchrony at various frequencies was performed. We demonstrate that mTBI is associated with reduced network connectivity in the delta and gamma frequency range (>30 Hz), together with increased connectivity in the slower alpha band (8–12 Hz). A similar temporal pattern was associated with correlations between network connectivity and the length of time between the injury and the MEG scan. Using such resting state MEG network synchrony we were able to detect mTBI with 88% accuracy. Classification confidence was also correlated with clinical symptom severity scores. These results provide the first evidence that imaging of MEG network connectivity, in combination with machine learning, has the potential to accurately detect and determine the severity of mTBI.
- Subjects
BRAIN injuries; BRAIN imaging; BRAIN abnormalities; EVOKED potentials (Electrophysiology); HIGHER nervous activity
- Publication
PLoS Computational Biology, 2016, Vol 12, Issue 12, p1
- ISSN
1553-734X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004914