Brain Activity Characteristics of Patients With Disorders of Consciousness in the EEG Resting State Paradigm: A Review

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Kamila Jankowiak-Siuda¹  Anna Duszyk-Bogorodzka¹  Magdalena Zieleniewska² 

[1] Behavioural Neuroscience Lab, Institute of Psychology, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland;Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland;

关键词: electroencephalography;    EEG connectivity;    resting state EEG;    disorders of consciousness;    vegetative state;    unresponsive wakefulness syndrome;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fnsys.2022.654541

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The assessment of the level of consciousness in disorders of consciousness (DoC) is still one of the most challenging problems in contemporary medicine. Nevertheless, based on the multitude of studies conducted over the last 20 years on resting states based on electroencephalography (EEG) in DoC, it is possible to outline the brain activity profiles related to both patients without preserved consciousness and minimally conscious ones. In the case of patients without preserved consciousness, the dominance of low, mostly delta, frequency, and the marginalization of the higher frequencies were observed, both in terms of the global power of brain activity and in functional connectivity patterns. In turn, the minimally conscious patients revealed the opposite brain activity pattern—the characteristics of higher frequency bands were preserved both in global power and in functional long-distance connections. In this short review, we summarize the state of the art of EEG-based research in the resting state paradigm, in the context of providing potential support to the traditional clinical assessment of the level of consciousness.

【 授权许可】

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