The Relationship Between Ictal Multi-Unit Activity And The Electrocorticogram
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NEURAL SYSTEMS(2018)
摘要
During neocortical seizures in patients with epilepsy, microelectrode array recordings from the ictal core show a strong correlation between the fast, cellular spiking activities and the low-frequency component of the potential field, reflected in the electrocorticogram (ECoG). Here, we model the relationship between the cellular spike activity and this low-frequency component as the input and output signals of a linear time invariant system. Our approach is based on the observation that this relationship can be characterized by a so-called sinc function, the unit impulse response of an ideal (brick-wall) filter. Accordingly, using a brick-wall filter, we are able to convert ictal cellular spike inputs into an output that significantly correlates with the observed seizure activity in the ECoG (r = 0.40 - 0.56, p < 0.01), while ECoG recordings of subsequent seizures within patients also show significant, but lower, correlations (r = 0.10-0.30, p < 0.01). Furthermore, we can produce seizure-like output signals using synthetic spike trains with ictal properties. We propose a possible physiological mechanism to explain the observed properties associated with an ideal filter, and discuss the potential use of our approach for the evaluation of anticonvulsant strategies.
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Seizure, epilepsy, spike train, ideal filter
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