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Docta Complutense
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Méndez, María Andreína
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Zuluaga Arias, María del Pilar
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Hornero, Roberto
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Gómez, Carlos
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Escudero, Javier
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Rodríguez Palancas, Alfonso
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Ortiz, Tomás
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Fernández Lucas, Alberto Amable
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2012-05
Méndez, M. A., Zuluaga Arias, M. P., Hornero, R. et al. «Complexity Analysis of Spontaneous Brain Activity: Effects of Depression and Antidepressant Treatment». Journal of Psychopharmacology, vol. 26, n.o 5, mayo de 2012, pp. 636-43. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1177/0269881111408966.
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Magnetoencephalography (MEG) allows the real-time recording of neural activity and oscillatory activity in distributed neural networks. We applied a non-linear complexity analysis to resting-state neural activity as measured using whole-head MEG. Recordings were obtained from 20 unmedicated patients with major depressive disorder and 19 matched healthy controls. Subsequently, after 6 months of pharmacological treatment with the antidepressant mirtazapine 30 mg/day, patients received a second MEG scan. A measure of the complexity of neural signals, the Lempel–Ziv Complexity (LZC), was derived from the MEG time series. We found that depressed patients showed higher pre-treatment complexity values compared with controls, and that complexity values decreased after 6 months of effective pharmacological treatment, although this effect was statistically significant only in younger patients. The main treatment effect was to recover the tendency observed in controls of a positive correlation between age and complexity values. Importantly, the reduction of complexity with treatment correlated with the degree of clinical symptom remission. We suggest that LZC, a formal measure of neural activity complexity, is sensitive to the dynamic physiological changes observed in depression and may potentially offer an objective marker of depression and its remission after treatment.
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Complexity analysis of spontaneous brain activity: Effects of depression and antidepressant treatment
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