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INTERHEMISPHERIC ASYMMETRY IN EEG PHOTIC DRIVING COHERENCE IN CHILDHOOD AUTISM
Córtex Cerebral
Eletroencefalografia
Lateralidade Funcional
Estimulação Luminosa
Affilliation
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Fernandes Figueira. Laboratório de Neurobiologia e Neurofisiologia Clínica. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil
Abstract
Objective: Examination of the EEG photic driving coherence during intermittent photic stimulation in
autistic patients with relatively intact verbal and intellectual functions in order to enhance the likely
latent interhemispheric asymmetry in neural connectivity.
Methods: Fourteen autistic boys, aged 6–14 years, free of drug treatment, with I.Q. 91.4 ± 22.8, and 19
normally developing boys were subject to stimulation of 12 fixed frequencies of 3–27 Hz. The number
of high coherent connections (HCC) (coherence >0.6–0.8) was estimated among 7 leads in each hemisphere.
Results: In contrast to the spectral characteristics showing the right hemisphere deficit in the photic driving
reactivity, the number of HCC differentiated the groups only in the left hemisphere where it was
higher in autistics at the EEG frequencies corresponding to those of stimulation at 6–27 Hz without
asymmetry at other frequencies, the left-side prevalence increasing with frequency. No asymmetry
was observed in the resting state.
Conclusions: Spectral and coherence characteristics of the EEG photic driving show different aspects of
latent abnormal interhemispheric asymmetry in autistics: the right hemisphere ‘‘hyporeactivity” and
potential ‘‘hyperconectivity” of likely compensatory nature in the left hemisphere.
Significance: The EEG photic driving can reveal functional topographic alterations not present in the
spontaneous EEG.
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Transtorno AutísticoCórtex Cerebral
Eletroencefalografia
Lateralidade Funcional
Estimulação Luminosa
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