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| Titre : |
Probing a neural unreliability account of auditory sensory processing atypicalities in Rett Syndrome |
| Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
| Auteurs : |
Tufikameni BRIMA, Auteur ; Shlomit BEKER, Auteur ; Kevin D. PRINSLOO, Auteur ; John S. BUTLER, Auteur ; Aleksandra DJUKIC, Auteur ; Edward G. FREEDMAN, Auteur ; Sophie MOLHOLM, Auteur ; John J. FOXE, Auteur |
| Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
| Mots-clés : |
Humans Rett Syndrome/physiopathology/complications Adolescent Female Evoked Potentials, Auditory/physiology Child Young Adult Electroencephalography Auditory Perception/physiology Reproducibility of Results Acoustic Stimulation Male Signal-To-Noise Ratio Adult Auditory Evoked Potential AEP Auditory discrimination Denoising Source Separation (DSS) Eeg Event-related potential ERP Females High-density electrical mapping Inter-Trial Phase Coherence (ITPC) Inter-trial variability (ITV) Neurodevelopmental disorder Rett Syndrome Severity Scale (RSSS) Signal-noise ratio (SNR) X-linked mutation MECP2 to the results of this study. |
| Index. décimale : |
PER Périodiques |
| Résumé : |
BACKGROUND: In the search for objective tools to quantify neural function in Rett Syndrome (RTT), which are crucial in the evaluation of therapeutic efficacy in clinical trials, recordings of sensory-perceptual functioning using event-related potential (ERP) approaches have emerged as potentially powerful tools. Considerable work points to highly anomalous auditory evoked potentials (AEPs) in RTT. However, an assumption of the typical signal-averaging method used to derive these measures is "stationarity" of the underlying responses - i.e. neural responses to each input are highly stereotyped. An alternate possibility is that responses to repeated stimuli are highly variable in RTT. If so, this will significantly impact the validity of assumptions about underlying neural dysfunction, and likely lead to overestimation of underlying neuropathology. To assess this possibility, analyses at the single-trial level assessing signal-to-noise ratios (SNR), inter-trial variability (ITV) and inter-trial phase coherence (ITPC) are necessary. METHODS: AEPs were recorded to simple 100Â Hz tones from 18 RTT and 27 age-matched controls (Ages: 6-22Â years). We applied standard AEP averaging, as well as measures of neuronal reliability at the single-trial level (i.e. SNR, ITV, ITPC). To separate signal-carrying components from non-neural noise sources, we also applied a denoising source separation (DSS) algorithm and then repeated the reliability measures. RESULTS: Substantially increased ITV, lower SNRs, and reduced ITPC were observed in auditory responses of RTT participants, supporting a "neural unreliability" account. Application of the DSS technique made it clear that non-neural noise sources contribute to overestimation of the extent of processing deficits in RTT. Post-DSS, ITV measures were substantially reduced, so much so that pre-DSS ITV differences between RTT and TD populations were no longer detected. In the case of SNR and ITPC, DSS substantially improved these estimates in the RTT population, but robust differences between RTT and TD were still fully evident. CONCLUSIONS: To accurately represent the degree of neural dysfunction in RTT using the ERP technique, a consideration of response reliability at the single-trial level is highly advised. Non-neural sources of noise lead to overestimation of the degree of pathological processing in RTT, and denoising source separation techniques during signal processing substantially ameliorate this issue. |
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https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s11689-024-09544-x |
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in Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders > 16 (2024)
[article] Probing a neural unreliability account of auditory sensory processing atypicalities in Rett Syndrome [texte imprimé] / Tufikameni BRIMA, Auteur ; Shlomit BEKER, Auteur ; Kevin D. PRINSLOO, Auteur ; John S. BUTLER, Auteur ; Aleksandra DJUKIC, Auteur ; Edward G. FREEDMAN, Auteur ; Sophie MOLHOLM, Auteur ; John J. FOXE, Auteur. Langues : Anglais ( eng) in Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders > 16 (2024)
| Mots-clés : |
Humans Rett Syndrome/physiopathology/complications Adolescent Female Evoked Potentials, Auditory/physiology Child Young Adult Electroencephalography Auditory Perception/physiology Reproducibility of Results Acoustic Stimulation Male Signal-To-Noise Ratio Adult Auditory Evoked Potential AEP Auditory discrimination Denoising Source Separation (DSS) Eeg Event-related potential ERP Females High-density electrical mapping Inter-Trial Phase Coherence (ITPC) Inter-trial variability (ITV) Neurodevelopmental disorder Rett Syndrome Severity Scale (RSSS) Signal-noise ratio (SNR) X-linked mutation MECP2 to the results of this study. |
| Index. décimale : |
PER Périodiques |
| Résumé : |
BACKGROUND: In the search for objective tools to quantify neural function in Rett Syndrome (RTT), which are crucial in the evaluation of therapeutic efficacy in clinical trials, recordings of sensory-perceptual functioning using event-related potential (ERP) approaches have emerged as potentially powerful tools. Considerable work points to highly anomalous auditory evoked potentials (AEPs) in RTT. However, an assumption of the typical signal-averaging method used to derive these measures is "stationarity" of the underlying responses - i.e. neural responses to each input are highly stereotyped. An alternate possibility is that responses to repeated stimuli are highly variable in RTT. If so, this will significantly impact the validity of assumptions about underlying neural dysfunction, and likely lead to overestimation of underlying neuropathology. To assess this possibility, analyses at the single-trial level assessing signal-to-noise ratios (SNR), inter-trial variability (ITV) and inter-trial phase coherence (ITPC) are necessary. METHODS: AEPs were recorded to simple 100Â Hz tones from 18 RTT and 27 age-matched controls (Ages: 6-22Â years). We applied standard AEP averaging, as well as measures of neuronal reliability at the single-trial level (i.e. SNR, ITV, ITPC). To separate signal-carrying components from non-neural noise sources, we also applied a denoising source separation (DSS) algorithm and then repeated the reliability measures. RESULTS: Substantially increased ITV, lower SNRs, and reduced ITPC were observed in auditory responses of RTT participants, supporting a "neural unreliability" account. Application of the DSS technique made it clear that non-neural noise sources contribute to overestimation of the extent of processing deficits in RTT. Post-DSS, ITV measures were substantially reduced, so much so that pre-DSS ITV differences between RTT and TD populations were no longer detected. In the case of SNR and ITPC, DSS substantially improved these estimates in the RTT population, but robust differences between RTT and TD were still fully evident. CONCLUSIONS: To accurately represent the degree of neural dysfunction in RTT using the ERP technique, a consideration of response reliability at the single-trial level is highly advised. Non-neural sources of noise lead to overestimation of the degree of pathological processing in RTT, and denoising source separation techniques during signal processing substantially ameliorate this issue. |
| En ligne : |
https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s11689-024-09544-x |
| Permalink : |
https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=575 |
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