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- Sleep disorders are linked to depression, potentially caused by unusual brain activity during the transition into sleep.
- A study compared EEG data from 32 depressed patients and 33 healthy controls, finding that depressed individuals had slower changes in brain activity and different functional connectivity patterns during sleep onset.
- The results suggest that the abnormal sleep transition in depressed patients affects both their neural activity and connectivity, offering insights into how sleep disorders manifest in depression.
Article Abstract
Objective: Sleep disorders constitute a principal diagnostic criterion for depression, potentially reflecting the abnormal persistence of brain activity during the sleep onset (SO) transition. Here, we sought to explore the differences in the dynamic changes in the EEG activity and the EEG functional connectivity (FC) during the SO transition in depressed patients.
Methods: Overnight polysomnography recordings were obtained from thirty-two depressed patients and thirty-three healthy controls. The multiscale permutation entropy (MSPE) and EEG relative power were extracted to characterize EEG activity, and weighted phase lag index (WPLI) was calculated to characterize EEG FC.
Results: The intergroup differences in EEG activity of relative power and MSPE were reversed near SO, which attributed to slower rates of change among depressed patients. Regarding the characteristics of the EEG FC network, depressed patients exhibited significantly higher inter-hemispheric and interregional WPLI values in both delta and alpha bands throughout the SO transition, concomitant with different dynamic properties in the delta band FC. During the process after SO, patients exhibited increased inter-hemispheric long-range links, whereas controls showed more intra-hemispheric ones. Finally, we found significant correlations in the dynamic changes between different EEG measures.
Conclusions: Our research revealed that the abnormal changes during the SO transition in depressed patients were manifested in both homeostatic and dynamic aspects, which were reflected in EEG FC and EEG activity, respectively.
Significance: These findings may elucidate the mechanism underlying sleep disorders in depression from the perspective of neural activity.
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