Title
Sex specific EEG signatures associated with cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in mild cognitive impairment
Date Issued
01 October 2022
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Rodríguez-Rojo I.C.
Torres-Simón L.
Cuesta P.
Vendrell A.C.
Piñol-Ripoll G.
Huerto R.
Tahan N.
Maestú F.
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Publisher(s)
Elsevier Ireland Ltd.
Abstract
Objective: The use of the electroencephalography (EEG) technique in Alzheimer's disease (AD) diagnosis is scarce due to a lack of validation of its neurophysiological information with current biomarkers. Therefore, our goal was to assess correlations between brain spectral power signatures and cerebrospinal fluid markers (CSF) such as amyloid-β 42 load (Aβ-42), total tau (t-tau), and phosphorylated tau (p-tau) in a mild cognitive impairment (MCI) population. Furthermore, given the AD sex-dependent vulnerability related to CSF biomarkers, we went a little forward looking for different electrophysiological correlations for males and females independently. Methods: A data-driven approach was employed to determine bidimensional spectral power signatures (space-frequency) that correlated (Spearman) significantly with any of the three CSF markers in 27 patients with MCI in any of the two sex-dependent subsamples (i.e., 12 females and 15 males). Results: Our main significant outcomes evidenced 1) a negative correlation of Aβ-42 load with central-posterior theta power and a negative correlation of t-tau with widespread alpha power within the male subsample, and 2) a significant negative correlation between t-tau and widespread beta power in the female subgroup. Conclusions: There is a distinctive profile of correlations between resting-state electrophysiological signatures and CSF markers in male and female individuals. Significance: The combination of these two measures would be pointing out the need of a more personalized approach to promote early AD diagnosis.
Start page
190
End page
198
Volume
142
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Neurología clínica
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85137292652
PubMed ID
Source
Clinical Neurophysiology
ISSN of the container
13882457
Sponsor(s)
This study was funded by Generalitat of Catalonia, Department of Health (PERIS 2019SLT008/18/00050) to GPR.
Chino-Vilca, B. acknowledges the financial support of the National Council of Science, Technology and Technological Innovation (CONCYTEC, Perú) through the National Fund for Scientific and Technological Development (FONDECYT, Perú). Additionally, this work was supported by the predoctoral researchers grant from Universidad Complutense de Madrid (CT42/18-CT43/18) and co-founded by Santander bank to Torres-Simón, L.
We would like to express our sincere gratitude to all the patients and all the members of the Sleep and Dementia Unit at the Hospital Universitari Santa Maria. We were supported by the IRBLleida Biobank (B.0000682) and PLATAFORMA BIOBANCOS PT17/0015/0027/
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