title: Neural complexity in patients with poststroke depression: A resting EEG study.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Poststroke depression (PSD) is one of the most common emotional disorders affecting post-stroke patients. However, the neurophysiological mechanism remains elusive. This study was aimed to study the relationship between complexity of neural electrical activity and PSD.
  
  
  METHODS
  Resting state eye-closed electroencephalogram (EEG) signals of 16 electrodes were recorded in 21 ischemic poststroke depression (PSD) patients, 22 ischemic poststroke non-depression (PSND) patients and 15 healthy controls (CONT). Lempel-Ziv Complexity (LZC) was used to evaluate changes in EEG complexity in PSD patients. Statistical analysis was performed to explore difference among different groups and electrodes. Correlation between the severity of depression (HDRS) and EEG complexity was determined with pearson correlation coefficients. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) and binary logistic regression analysis were conducted to estimate the discriminating ability of LZC for PSD in specificity, sensitivity and accuracy.
  
  
  RESULTS
  PSD patients showed lower neural complexity compared with PSND and CONT subjects in the whole brain regions. There was no significant difference among different brain regions, and no interactions between group and electrodes. None of the LZC significantly correlated with overall depression severity or differentiated symptom severity of 7 items in PSD patients, but in stroke patients, significant correlation was found between HDRS and LZC in the whole brain regions, especially in frontal and temporal. LZC parameters used for PSD recognition possessed more than 85% in specificity, sensitivity and accuracy, suggesting the feasibility of LZC to serve as screening indicators for PSD. Increased slow wave rhythms were found in PSD patients and clearly correlation was confirmed between neuronal complexity and spectral power of the four EEG rhythms.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Lesion location of stroke patients in the study distributed in different brain regions, and most of the PSD patients were mild or moderate in depressive severity.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Compared with conventional spectral analysis, complexity of neural activity using LZC was more sensitive and stationary in the measurement of abnormal brain activity in PSD patients and may offer a potential approach to facilitate clinical screening of this disease.
authors.affiliation: Rehabilitation Medical Department, Tianjin Union Medicine Centre, Rehabilitation Medical Research Center of Tianjin, Tianjin, China.
authors.forename: Ying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Rehabilitation Medical Department, Tianjin Union Medicine Centre, Rehabilitation Medical Research Center of Tianjin, Tianjin, China; Lab of Neural Engineering & Rehabilitation, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China.
authors.forename: Chunfang
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Rehabilitation Medical Department, Tianjin Union Medicine Centre, Rehabilitation Medical Research Center of Tianjin, Tianjin, China.
authors.forename: Changcheng
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.affiliation: Lab of Neural Engineering & Rehabilitation, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China.
authors.forename: Xi
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Rehabilitation Medical Department, Tianjin Union Medicine Centre, Rehabilitation Medical Research Center of Tianjin, Tianjin, China.
authors.forename: Yongjun
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Lab of Neural Engineering & Rehabilitation, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China.
authors.forename: Hongzhi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Qi
authors.affiliation: Lab of Neural Engineering & Rehabilitation, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China.
authors.forename: Feng
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: He
authors.affiliation: Lab of Neural Engineering & Rehabilitation, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China.
authors.forename: Xin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.affiliation: Lab of Neural Engineering & Rehabilitation, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China.
authors.forename: Baikun
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Wan
authors.affiliation: Rehabilitation Medical Department, Tianjin Union Medicine Centre, Rehabilitation Medical Research Center of Tianjin, Tianjin, China.
authors.forename: Jingang
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Du
authors.affiliation: Lab of Neural Engineering & Rehabilitation, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China. Electronic address: http://tunerl.tju.edu.cn/
authors.forename: Dong
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ming
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000503:physiopathology*; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D003863:Depression / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015233:Models, Statistical; D012372:ROC Curve; D012146:Rest / Q000502:physiology*; D020521:Stroke / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology*
keywords: EEG; Lempel–Ziv Complexity (LZC); Neural complexity; Poststroke depression (PSD)