期刊
BRAIN STIMULATION
卷 11, 期 3, 页码 536-544出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2017.12.010
关键词
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS); Electroencephalogram (EEG); Evoked potentials; Reliability; Plasticity
资金
- Stanford Neurosciences Institute
- Alpha Omega Alpha Carolyn L. Kuckein Student Research Fellowship
- Alpha Omega Alpha Postgraduate Research Award
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61403144]
- Tip-Top Scientific and Technical Innovative Youth Talents of Guangdong Special Support Program [2015TQ01X361]
Background: Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)-evoked potentials (TEPs), recorded using electroencephalography (TMS-EEG), offer a powerful tool for measuring causal interactions in the human brain. However, the test-retest reliability of TEPs, critical to their use in clinical biomarker and interventional studies, remains poorly understood. Objective/Hypothesis: We quantified TEP reliability to: (i) determine the minimal TEP amplitude change which significantly exceeds that associated with simply re-testing, (ii) locate the most reliable scalp regions of interest (ROIs) and TEP peaks, and (iii) determine the minimal number of TEP pulses for achieving reliability. Methods: TEPs resulting from stimulation of the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex were collected on two separate days in sixteen healthy participants. TEP peak amplitudes were compared between alternating trials, split-halves of the same run, two runs five minutes apart and two runs on separate days. Reliability was quantified using concordance correlation coefficient (CCC) and smallest detectable change (SDC). Results: Substantial concordance was achieved in prefrontal electrodes at 40 and 60 ms, centroparietal and left parietal ROIs at 100 ms, and central electrodes at 200 ms. Minimum SDC was found in the same regions and peaks, particularly for the peaks at 100 and 200 ms. CCC, but not SDC, reached optimal values by 60e100 pulses per run with saturation beyond this number, while SDC continued to improve with increased pulse numbers. Conclusion: TEPs were robust and reliable, requiring a relatively small number of trials to achieve stability, and are thus well suited as outcomes in clinical biomarker or interventional studies. (C) 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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