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      Characteristics of Beta Waveform Shape in Parkinson's Disease Detected with Scalp Electroencephalography

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          Neural activity in the beta frequency range (13-30 Hz) is excessively synchronized in Parkinson's Disease (PD). Previous work using invasive intracranial recordings and non-invasive scalp electroencephalography (EEG) has shown that correlations between beta phase and broad-band gamma amplitude (i.e., phase amplitude coupling) are elevated in PD, perhaps a reflection of this synchrony. Recently, it has also been shown, in invasive human recordings, that nonsinusoidal features of beta oscillation shape also characterize PD. Here we show that these features of beta waveform shape also distinguish PD patients on and off medication using non-invasive recordings in a dataset of 15 PD patients with resting scalp EEG. Specifically, beta oscillations over sensorimotor electrodes in PD patients off medication had greater sharpness asymmetry and steepness asymmetry than on medication (sign rank, p=0.006, p=0.003 respectively). We also showed that beta oscillations over sensorimotor cortex most often had a canonical shape, and that using this prototypical shape as an inclusion-criteria increased the effect size of our findings. Together our findings suggest that novel ways of measuring beta synchrony that incorporate waveform shape could improve detection of PD pathophysiology in non-invasive recordings.

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          bioRxiv
          January 29 2019
          Article
          10.1101/534396
          ccbc672e-a077-4841-b0cd-eba88bed602d
          © 2019
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          Molecular medicine,Neurosciences
          Molecular medicine, Neurosciences

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