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Adjustment of Synchronization Stability of Dynamic Brain-Networks Based on Feature Fusion

When the brain is active, the neural activities of different regions are integrated on various spatial and temporal scales; this is termed the synchronization phenomenon in neurobiological theory. This synchronicity is also the main underlying mechanism for information integration and processing in...

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Autores principales: Li, Haifang, Yao, Rong, Xia, Xiaoluan, Yin, Guimei, Deng, Hongxia, Yang, Pengfei
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6455007/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31001095
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2019.00098
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author Li, Haifang
Yao, Rong
Xia, Xiaoluan
Yin, Guimei
Deng, Hongxia
Yang, Pengfei
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Yao, Rong
Xia, Xiaoluan
Yin, Guimei
Deng, Hongxia
Yang, Pengfei
author_sort Li, Haifang
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description When the brain is active, the neural activities of different regions are integrated on various spatial and temporal scales; this is termed the synchronization phenomenon in neurobiological theory. This synchronicity is also the main underlying mechanism for information integration and processing in the brain. Clinical medicine has found that some of the neurological diseases that are difficult to cure have deficiencies or abnormalities in the whole or local integration processes of the brain. By studying the synchronization capabilities of the brain-network, we can intensively describe and characterize both the state of the interactions between brain regions and their differences between people with a mental illness and a set of controls by measuring the rapid changes in brain activity in patients with psychiatric disorders and the strength and integrity of their entire brain network. This is significant for the study of mental illness. Because static brain network connection methods are unable to assess the dynamic interactions within the brain, we introduced the concepts of dynamics and variability in a constructed EEG brain functional network based on dynamic connections, and used it to analyze the variability in the time characteristics of the EEG functional network. We used the spectral features of the brain network to extract its synchronization features and used the synchronization features to describe the process of change and the differences in the brain network's synchronization ability between a group of patients and healthy controls during a working memory task. We propose a method based on the fusion of traditional features and spectral features to achieve an adjustment of the patient's brain network synchronization ability, so that its synchronization ability becomes consistent with that of healthy controls, theoretically achieving the purpose of the treatment of the diseases. Studying the stability of brain network synchronization can provide new insights into the pathogenic mechanism and cure of mental diseases and has a wide range of potential applications.
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spelling pubmed-64550072019-04-18 Adjustment of Synchronization Stability of Dynamic Brain-Networks Based on Feature Fusion Li, Haifang Yao, Rong Xia, Xiaoluan Yin, Guimei Deng, Hongxia Yang, Pengfei Front Hum Neurosci Neuroscience When the brain is active, the neural activities of different regions are integrated on various spatial and temporal scales; this is termed the synchronization phenomenon in neurobiological theory. This synchronicity is also the main underlying mechanism for information integration and processing in the brain. Clinical medicine has found that some of the neurological diseases that are difficult to cure have deficiencies or abnormalities in the whole or local integration processes of the brain. By studying the synchronization capabilities of the brain-network, we can intensively describe and characterize both the state of the interactions between brain regions and their differences between people with a mental illness and a set of controls by measuring the rapid changes in brain activity in patients with psychiatric disorders and the strength and integrity of their entire brain network. This is significant for the study of mental illness. Because static brain network connection methods are unable to assess the dynamic interactions within the brain, we introduced the concepts of dynamics and variability in a constructed EEG brain functional network based on dynamic connections, and used it to analyze the variability in the time characteristics of the EEG functional network. We used the spectral features of the brain network to extract its synchronization features and used the synchronization features to describe the process of change and the differences in the brain network's synchronization ability between a group of patients and healthy controls during a working memory task. We propose a method based on the fusion of traditional features and spectral features to achieve an adjustment of the patient's brain network synchronization ability, so that its synchronization ability becomes consistent with that of healthy controls, theoretically achieving the purpose of the treatment of the diseases. Studying the stability of brain network synchronization can provide new insights into the pathogenic mechanism and cure of mental diseases and has a wide range of potential applications. Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-04-02 /pmc/articles/PMC6455007/ /pubmed/31001095 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2019.00098 Text en Copyright © 2019 Li, Yao, Xia, Yin, Deng and Yang. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Neuroscience
Li, Haifang
Yao, Rong
Xia, Xiaoluan
Yin, Guimei
Deng, Hongxia
Yang, Pengfei
Adjustment of Synchronization Stability of Dynamic Brain-Networks Based on Feature Fusion
title Adjustment of Synchronization Stability of Dynamic Brain-Networks Based on Feature Fusion
title_full Adjustment of Synchronization Stability of Dynamic Brain-Networks Based on Feature Fusion
title_fullStr Adjustment of Synchronization Stability of Dynamic Brain-Networks Based on Feature Fusion
title_full_unstemmed Adjustment of Synchronization Stability of Dynamic Brain-Networks Based on Feature Fusion
title_short Adjustment of Synchronization Stability of Dynamic Brain-Networks Based on Feature Fusion
title_sort adjustment of synchronization stability of dynamic brain-networks based on feature fusion
topic Neuroscience
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6455007/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31001095
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2019.00098
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