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ArticleJournal of clinical monitoring and computing2025

EEG features associated with Alzheimer's disease and Frontotemporal dementia are not reflected by processed indices used in anesthesia monitoring.

Stefan Schwerin, Srdjan Z Dragovic, Julian Ostertag, Duy-Minh Nguyen, Gerhard Schneider, Matthias Kreuzer

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Article in Journal of clinical monitoring and computing, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 3 papers.

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Stefan SchwerinDepartment of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, TUM School of Medicine and Health, Technical University of Munich, Ismaningerstr 22, 81675, Munich, Germany. stefan.schwerin@tum.de.ORCID 0009-0005-6307-3156
Srdjan Z DragovicDepartment of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, TUM School of Medicine and Health, Technical University of Munich, Ismaningerstr 22, 81675, Munich, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-2413-2361
Julian OstertagDepartment of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, TUM School of Medicine and Health, Technical University of Munich, Ismaningerstr 22, 81675, Munich, Germany.ORCID 0009-0006-9928-8041
Duy-Minh NguyenMaster of Science in Molecular and Translational Neuroscience, Ulm University, Helmholtzstraße 16, 89081, Ulm, Germany.
Gerhard SchneiderDepartment of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, TUM School of Medicine and Health, Technical University of Munich, Ismaningerstr 22, 81675, Munich, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-4903-0118
Matthias KreuzerDepartment of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, TUM School of Medicine and Health, Technical University of Munich, Ismaningerstr 22, 81675, Munich, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-2472-3556

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Patients with dementia face increased risks after general anesthesia. Improved perioperative electroencephalogram (EEG) monitoring techniques could aid in identifying vulnerable patients. However, current technology relies on processed indices to measure "depth-of-anesthesia". Analyzing OpenNeuro Dataset ds004504, we compared resting-state, eyes-closed EEG recordings of healthy controls (n = 27) with patients diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease (AD, n = 35) and Frontotemporal dementia (FTD, n = 23). We focused on prefrontal recordings. Analysis included spectral analysis, the "fitting-oscillations&-one-over-f"-algorithm for aperiodic and periodic signal features, as well as calculations of openibis, permutation entropy (PeEn), spectral entropy (SpEn), and spectral edge frequency (SEF). Spectral differences were pronounced, including a higher alpha/theta-ratio of controls (2.62 [95%CI: 1.54-3.62]) compared to both AD (0.55 [95%CI: 0.26-1.92], P < 0.001, AUC: 0.765 [0.642-0.888]) and FTD (0.83 [95%CI: 0.33-1.65], P = 0.007, AUC: 0.779 [0.652-0.907]). Oscillatory peak detection within the alpha frequency band was more robust in control (versus AD: P = 0.003, Cramér's V = 0.374; versus FTD: P = 0.003, Cramér's V = 0.414). Processed index parameters did not show a clear trend. FTD was associated with a higher prefrontal openibis (95.53 [95%CI: 93.43-97.39]) than control (91.98 [95%CI: 89.46-96.27], P = 0.033, AUC: 0.717 [0.572-0.862]) and an elevated SEF (23.68 [95%CI: 14.10-25.57] Hz) compared to AD (16.60 [95%CI: 14.22-22.22] Hz, P = 0.041, AUC: 0.676 [0.532-0.821]). AD and FTD are associated with EEG baseline abnormalities, and a standard prefrontal montage, as used intraoperatively, could present a promising technical screening approach for cognitive vulnerability. However, these EEG features are obscured by processed index parameters currently used in neuroanesthesia monitoring. OpenNeuro Dataset ds004504 "A dataset of EEG recordings from: Alzheimer's disease, Frontotemporal dementia and Healthy subjects" (doi: https://doi.org/10.18112/openneuro.ds004504.v1.0.7 ).

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Alzheimer DiseaseElectroencephalographyFrontotemporal DementiaMonitoring, IntraoperativeAgedAlgorithmsAnesthesiaAnesthesia, GeneralCase-Control StudiesEntropyFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedSignal Processing, Computer-AssistedAlzheimer’s diseaseAnesthesiaEEGFrontotemporal dementiaNeuromonitoring

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