Mapping of Synaptic-Neuronal Impairment on the Brain Surface through Fluctuation Analysis
- Brain Functions Lab., Inc. (Japan)
- Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan)
Increase of demented population year by year is becoming a serious social problem to be solved urgently. The most effective way to block this increase is in its early detection by means of an inexpensive, non-invasive, sensitive, reliable and easy-to-operate diagnosis method. We have developed a method satisfying these requirements by using scalp potential fluctuations. We have collected 21ch EEG and SPECT data of 25 very mild Alzheimer's disease (AD) (MMSE=26{+-}1.8), moderately severe AD (MMSE=15.3{+-}6.4) and age-matched normal controls. As AD progresses, local synaptic-neuronal activity becomes abnormal, either more unstable or more inactive than in normal state. Such abnormality is detected in terms of normalized power variance (NPV) of a scalp potential recorded with a scalp electrode. The z-score is defined by z = ((NPV of a subject) - (mean NPV of normal subjects))/(standard deviation of NPV of normal subjects). Correlation of a measured z-score map with the mean z-score map for AD patients characterizes likelihood to AD, in terms of which AD is discriminated from normal with 75% of true positive and 25% false negative probability. By introducing two thresholds, we have 90% of true positive and 10% of false negative discrimination.
- OSTI ID:
- 20719214
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 780, Issue 1; Conference: ICNF 2005: 18. international conference on noise and fluctuations, Salamanca (Spain), 19-23 Sep 2005; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.2036810; (c) 2005 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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