Distinguishing Parkinsonian Rest Tremor from Voluntary Hand Movements through Subthalamic and Cortical Activity

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a common neurodegenerative disorder characterized mainly by resting tremor, bradykinesia, and rigidity. Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) has been widely used to treat the motor symptoms of PD (Krauss et al., 2021). However, DBS treatment also has significant side effects, most of which are caused by the extension of stimulat...

Early Prediction of Drug-Resistant Epilepsy Using Clinical and EEG Features Based on Convolutional Neural Network

Research Background and Purpose Epilepsy is a spontaneous and severe neurological disorder characterized by recurrent seizures, affecting approximately 50 million people worldwide [1]. Despite recent advances in anti-seizure medications (ASMs), drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE) still affects 20% to 30% of epilepsy patients [1-3]. DRE patients face sign...

Single-Subject Cortical Morphological Brain Networks: Phenotypic Associations and Neurobiological Substrates

This paper is a study on the phenotypic associations and neurobiological bases of single-subject morphological brain networks. Combining multimodal and multiscale data, this study reveals the differences in morphological brain networks between genders, their potential as individual-specific markers, and their relationships with gene expression, lay...

Networked Information Interactions in Schizophrenia Magnetoencephalograms based on Permutation Transfer Entropy

Study of Network Information Interactions in Schizophrenia Magnetoencephalograms Based on Permutation Transfer Entropy Academic Background Schizophrenia (SCZ) is a mental disorder characterized by persistent delusions and hallucinations, disorganized thinking, and inconsistent behavior, often leading to significant impairment in the perception of r...

Functional Brain Network Based on Improved Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition of EEG for Anxiety Analysis and Detection

Brain Functional Network for Anxiety Analysis and Detection Based on Improved Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition Academic Background and Research Objectives With the increasing stress of modern life, anxiety, a common neurological disorder, has become an urgent issue in global public health. Anxiety not only manifests as mental disorders but als...

Impact of Amplitude and Phase of fMRI Time Series for Functional Connectivity Analysis

The Impact of Amplitude and Phase-based MRI Time Series on Functional Connectivity Analysis Introduction Over the past decade, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has emerged as a non-invasive imaging technique that uses blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) contrast to measure brain activity and study brain function (Kwong, 1996). By analyz...

Spatiotemporal Responses to Emotional Conflict and Its Psychiatric Correlates in Adolescents with Epilepsy Using Magnetoencephalography

Spatiotemporal Responses to Emotional Conflict and Its Psychiatric Correlates in Adolescents with Epilepsy Using Magnetoencephalography

Spatio-Temporal Responses of Emotional Conflict and Psychiatric Correlation in Adolescent Epilepsy Patients Research Background Epilepsy patients often experience comorbid mental disorders such as depression and anxiety, which negatively impact their quality of life. Emotional regulation is a critical cognitive process that is frequently impaired i...

The Role of EEG Microstates in Predicting Oxcarbazepine Treatment Outcomes in Patients with Newly-Diagnosed Focal Epilepsy

The Role of EEG Microstates in Predicting Oxcarbazepine Treatment Outcomes in Patients with Newly-Diagnosed Focal Epilepsy

The Role of EEG Microstates in Predicting the Therapeutic Outcomes of Oxcarbazepine in Newly Diagnosed Focal Epilepsy Patients Introduction Background Focal epilepsy is the most common type of epilepsy, accounting for about 60% of all epilepsy cases. The selection of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) varies depending on the type of epilepsy. In the treatm...

A Wearable Fluorescence Imaging Device for Intraoperative Identification of Human Brain Tumors

Malignant Glioma (MG) Report Malignant Glioma (MG) is the most common type of primary malignant brain tumor. Surgical resection of MG remains the cornerstone of treatment, and the extent of resection is highly correlated with patient survival. However, it is difficult to distinguish tumor tissue from normal tissue during surgery, which greatly limi...

An Explicit Estimated Baseline Model for Robust Estimation of Fluorophores Using Multiple-Wavelength Excitation Fluorescence Spectroscopy

Research Background Fluorescence spectroscopy is a widely used method for identifying and quantifying fluorescent substances (fluorophores). However, quantifying the fluorophores of interest becomes challenging when the material contains other fluorophores (baseline fluorophores), especially when the emission spectrum of the baseline is not well-de...