Children With Autism Produce a Unique Pattern of EEG Microstates During an Eyes Closed Resting-State Condition

Children With Autism Produce a Unique Pattern of EEG Microstates During an Eyes Closed Resting-State Condition

Although fMRI studies have produced considerable evidence for differences in the spatial connectivity of resting-state brain networks in persons with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) relative to typically developing (TD) peers, little is known about the temporal dynamics of these brain networks in ASD...

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Published in:Frontiers in human neuroscience Vol. 14; p. 288
Main Authors: Nagabhushan Kalburgi, Sahana, Whitten, Allison P, Key, Alexandra P, Bodfish, James W
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Switzerland Frontiers Research Foundation 08-10-2020
Frontiers Media S.A
Subjects:
Autism
autism spectrum disorders
Brain mapping
Children
Children & youth
EEG
Functional magnetic resonance imaging
microstates
Neural networks
Neuroscience
resting-state
salience network
autism spectrum disorders
microstates
salience network
EEG
resting-state
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Summary:Although fMRI studies have produced considerable evidence for differences in the spatial connectivity of resting-state brain networks in persons with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) relative to typically developing (TD) peers, little is known about the temporal dynamics of these brain networks in ASD. The aim of this study was to examine the EEG microstate architecture in children with ASD as compared to TD at rest in two separate conditions - eyes-closed (EC) and eyes-open (EO). EEG microstate analysis was performed on resting-state data of 13 ASD and 13 TD children matched on age, gender, and IQ. We found that children with ASD and TD peers produced topographically similar canonical microstates at rest. Group differences in the duration and frequency of these microstates were found primarily in the EC resting-state condition. In line with previous fMRI findings that have reported differences in spatial connectivity within the salience network (previously correlated with the activity of microstate C) in ASD, we found that the duration of activation of microstate C was increased, and the frequency of microstate C was decreased in ASD as compared to TD in EC resting-state. Functionally, these results may be reflective of alterations in interoceptive processes in ASD. These results suggest a unique pattern of EEG microstate architecture in ASD relative to TD during resting-states and also that EEG microstate parameters in ASD are susceptible to differences in resting-state conditions.
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Edited by: Teppei Matsui, The University of Tokyo, Japan
This article was submitted to Brain Imaging and Stimulation, a section of the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Present address: Sahana Nagabhushan Kalburgi, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Reviewed by: Giovanni Assenza, Campus Bio-Medico University, Italy; Jinping Xu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
ISSN:1662-5161
1662-5161
DOI:10.3389/fnhum.2020.00288