Spatial patterns in the background EEG underlying mental disease in man

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Abstract

The spatial patterns underlying differences in the background EEGs of schizophrenic, manic and depressed patients and a group of normal controls has been examined during the eyes open and eyes closed resting conditions and during 3 cognitive tasks. The method of principal-component analysis was used to extract spatial patterns which are common to the EEGs of 2 groups but which account for maximally different proportions of the combined variances. The common spatial patterns in all possible pairings of the groups were used to extract variance-related feature vectors from the individual EEG epochs in the 2 groups and the means of these vectors were subjected to statistical analyses. The results of these analyses indicate that there are significant differences in the EEGs from all 4 of the groups. The spatial patterns underlying the features which are siginificantly different in each comparison are shown graphically and used to suggest which brain regions might be implicated in each of the psychiatric conditions and how these are affected by the cognitive condition. The main results are that the EEGs in the schizophrenic group can be characterized by left-sided hyperactivity, in the depressed group by right-sided hyperactivity and in the manic group by bilateral hyperactivity and that these characteristics are best elicited by different cognitive states.

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