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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Synergistic and Redundant Brain-Heart Information in Patients with Focal Epilepsy

Riccardo PerniceIvan KotiuchyiDaniele MarinazzoVolodymyr KharytonovAnton PopovLuca FaesAlessandro Busacca

subject

electrocardiography (ECG)partial information decompositionmedicine.medical_specialtymedicine.diagnostic_testbusiness.industryMutual informationAudiologyElectroencephalographymedicine.diseasebrain-heart interactionsEpilepsyTime windowsSettore ING-INF/06 - Bioingegneria Elettronica E InformaticaHeart rateMedicineHeart rate variabilityIn patientelectroencephalography (EEG)business

description

In this work, partial information decomposition (PID) was applied to the time series of heart rate and EEG amplitude variability to investigate the dynamical interactions in brain-heart coupling before and after epileptic seizures. From ECG and EEG signals collected on 23 children suffering from focal epilepsy, the RR intervals and the EEG variance at ipsilateral and contralateral temporal electrodes were computed in four different time windows before and after the seizures. Static PID was used to obtain redundant, unique and synergistic components of the total information shared between the series of RR and EEG variance. Results highlight, in the progression from preictal to postictal states, a statistically significant change of mutual information at the ipsilateral electrode and of the synergy between brain locations.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2020-07-012020 11th Conference of the European Study Group on Cardiovascular Oscillations (ESGCO)
https://doi.org/10.1109/esgco49734.2020.9158196