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Estimate of Causality Between Independent Cortical Spatial Patterns During Movement Volition in Spinal Cord Injured Patients

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Author	Astolfi, Laura Bakardjian, Hovagim Cincotti, Febo Mattia, Donatella Marciani, Maria Grazia Vico Fallani, Fabrizio Colosimo, Alfredo Salinari, Serenella Miwakeichi, Fumikazu Yamaguchi, Yoko Martinez, Pablo Cichocki, Andrzej Tocci, Andrea Babiloni, Fabio
Copyright Year	2007
Abstract	Static hemodynamic or neuroelectric images of brain regions activated during particular tasks do not convey the information of how these regions communicate to each other. Cortical connectivity estimation aims at describing these interactions as connectivity patterns which hold the direction and strength of the information flow between cortical areas. In this study, we attempted to estimate the causality between distributed cortical systems during a movement volition task in preparation for execution of simple movements by a group of normal healthy subjects and by a group of Spinal Cord Injured (SCI) patients. To estimate the causality between the spatial distributed patterns of cortical activity in the frequency domain, we applied a series of processing steps on the recorded EEG data. From the high-resolution EEG recordings we estimated the cortical waveforms for the regions of interest (ROIs), each representing a selected sensor group population. The solutions of the linear inverse problem returned a series of cortical waveforms for each ROI considered and for each trial analyzed. For each subject, the cortical waveforms were then subjected to Independent Component Analysis (ICA) pre-processing. The independent components obtained by the application of the ThinICA algorithm were further processed by a Partial Directed Coherence algorithm, in order to extract the causality between spatial cortical patterns of the estimated data. The source-target cortical dependencies found in the group of normal subjects were relatively similar in all frequency bands analyzed. For the normal subjects we observed a common source pattern in an ensemble of cortical areas including the right parietal and right lip primary motor areas and bilaterally the primary foot and posterior SMA areas. The target of this cortical network, in the Granger-sense of causality, was shown to be a smaller network composed mostly by the primary foot motor areas and the posterior SMA bilaterally. In the case of the SCI population, both the source and the target cortical patterns had larger sizes than in the normal population. The source cortical areas included always the primary foot and lip motor areas, often bilaterally. In addition, the right parietal area and the bilateral premotor area 6 were also involved. Again, the patterns remained substantially stable across the different frequency bands analyzed. The target cortical patterns observed in the SCI population had larger extensions when compared to the normal ones, since in most cases they involved the bilateral activation of the primary foot movement areas as well as the SMA, the primary lip areas and the parietal cortical areas.
Starting Page	107
Ending Page	123
Page Count	17
File Format	PDF
ISSN	08960267
Journal	Brain Topography
Volume Number	19
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	15736792
Language	English
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers
Publisher Date	2007-06-19
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	ThinICA Distributed current density estimates Brodmann areas Inverse problem High-resolution EEG Functional connectivity Partial Directed Coherence Neurology Psychiatry Neurosciences
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Neurology Anatomy Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging Neurology (clinical) Radiological and Ultrasound Technology

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