Study on brain damage patterns of COVID-19 patients based on EEG signals

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Title: Study on brain damage patterns of COVID-19 patients based on EEG signals
Authors: Yang Yao, Yingnan Liu, Yu Chang, Zihan Geng, Xingting Liu, Songnan Ma, Zhiyun Wang, Chenguang Zheng, Jiajia Yang, Dong Ming
Source: Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Vol 17 (2023)
Publisher Information: Frontiers Media S.A., 2023.
Publication Year: 2023
Collection: LCC:Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
Subject Terms: COVID-19, electroencephalography, functional connectivity network, sample entropy, directed transfer function, Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry, RC321-571
More Details: ObjectiveThe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an acute respiratory infectious disease caused by the SARA-CoV-2, characterized by high infectivity and incidence. Clinical data indicates that COVID-19 significantly damages patients’ perception, motor function, and cognitive function. However, the electrophysiological mechanism by which the disease affects the patient’s nervous system is not yet clear. Our aim is to investigate the abnormal levels of brain activity and changes in brain functional connectivity network in patients with COVID-19.MethodsWe compared and analyzed electroencephalography signal sample entropy, energy spectrum, and brain network characteristic parameters in the delta (1–4 Hz), theta (4–8 Hz), alpha (8–13 Hz), and beta (13–30 Hz) bands of 15 patients with COVID-19 and 15 healthy controls at rest.ResultsAt rest, energy values of the four frequency bands in the frontal and temporal lobes of COVID-19 patients were significantly reduced. At the same time, the sample entropy value of the delta band in COVID-19 patients was significantly increased, while the value of the beta band was significantly decreased. However, the average value of the directed transfer function of patients did not show any abnormalities under the four frequency bands. Furthermore, node degree in the temporal lobe of patients was significantly increased, while the input degree of the frontal and temporal lobes was significantly decreased, and the output degree of the frontal and occipital lobes was significantly increased.ConclusionThe level of brain activity in COVID-19 patients at rest is reduced, and the brain functional network undergoes a rearrangement. These results preliminarily demonstrate that COVID-19 patients exhibit certain brain abnormalities during rest, it is feasible to explore the neurophysiological mechanism of COVID-19’s impact on the nervous system by using EEG signals, which can provide a certain technical basis for the subsequent diagnosis and evaluation of COVID-19 using artificial intelligence and the prevention of brain nervous system diseases after COVID-19 infection.
Document Type: article
File Description: electronic resource
Language: English
ISSN: 1662-5161
Relation: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2023.1280362/full; https://doaj.org/toc/1662-5161
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2023.1280362
Access URL: https://doaj.org/article/7b0e6f35d6d541eaa75a6194413b2848
Accession Number: edsdoj.7b0e6f35d6d541eaa75a6194413b2848
Database: Directory of Open Access Journals
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ISSN:16625161
DOI:10.3389/fnhum.2023.1280362
Published in:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Language:English