title: Assessing Granger Causality in Electrophysiological Data: Removing the Adverse Effects of Common Signals via Bipolar Derivations.
abstract: Multielectrode voltage data are usually recorded against a common reference. Such data are frequently used without further treatment to assess patterns of functional connectivity between neuronal populations and between brain areas. It is important to note from the outset that such an approach is valid only when the reference electrode is nearly electrically silent. In practice, however, the reference electrode is generally not electrically silent, thereby adding a common signal to the recorded data. Volume conduction further complicates the problem. In this study we demonstrate the adverse effects of common signals on the estimation of Granger causality, which is a statistical measure used to infer synaptic transmission and information flow in neural circuits from multielectrode data. We further test the hypothesis that the problem can be overcome by utilizing bipolar derivations where the difference between two nearby electrodes is taken and treated as a representation of local neural activity. Simulated data generated by a neuronal network model where the connectivity pattern is known were considered first. This was followed by analyzing data from three experimental preparations where a priori predictions regarding the patterns of causal interactions can be made: (1) laminar recordings from the hippocampus of an anesthetized rat during theta rhythm, (2) laminar recordings from V4 of an awake-behaving macaque monkey during alpha rhythm, and (3) ECoG recordings from electrode arrays implanted in the middle temporal lobe and prefrontal cortex of an epilepsy patient during fixation. For both simulation and experimental analysis the results show that bipolar derivations yield the expected connectivity patterns whereas the untreated data (referred to as unipolar signals) do not. In addition, current source density signals, where applicable, yield results that are close to the expected connectivity patterns, whereas the commonly practiced average re-reference method leads to erroneous results.
authors.affiliation: J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida Gainesville, FL, USA.
authors.forename: Amy
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Trongnetrpunya
authors.affiliation: J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida Gainesville, FL, USA.
authors.forename: Bijurika
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Nandi
authors.affiliation: J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida Gainesville, FL, USA.
authors.forename: Daesung
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kang
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School Boston, MA, USA.
authors.forename: Bernat
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kocsis
authors.affiliation: Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric ResearchOrangeburg, NY, USA; Department of Neurosurgery, Columbia UniversityNew York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Charles E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Schroeder
authors.affiliation: J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida Gainesville, FL, USA.
authors.forename: Mingzhou
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ding
keywords: ECoG; Granger causality; V4; bipolar signals; hippocampus; unipolar signals
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