Functional brain network properties of healthy full-term newborns quantified by scalp and source-reconstructed EEG.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Identifying the functional brain network properties of term low-risk newborns using high-density EEG (HD-EEG) and comparing these properties with those of established functional magnetic resonance image (fMRI) - based networks.

Methods

HD-EEG was collected from 113 low-risk term newborns before delivery hospital discharge and within 72 hours of birth. Functional brain networks were reconstructed using coherence at the scalp and source levels in delta, theta, alpha, beta, and gamma frequency bands. These networks were characterized for the global and local network architecture.

Results

Source-level networks in all the frequency bands identified the presence of the efficient small world (small-world propensity (SWP) > 0.6) architecture with four distinct modul

SUBMITTER: Chirumamilla VC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9975070 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature