Dimensional complexity of the resting brain in healthy aging, using a normalized MPSE

Norman Scheel*, Eric Franke, Thomas F. Münte, Amir Madany Mamlouk

*Korrespondierende/r Autor/-in für diese Arbeit

Abstract

© 2018 Scheel, Franke, Münte and Madany Mamlouk. Spontaneous fluctuations of resting-state functional connectivity have been studied in many ways, but grasping the complexity of brain activity has been difficult. Dimensional complexity measures, which are based on Eigenvalue (EV) spectrum analyses (e.g., Ω entropy) have been successfully applied to EEG data, but have not been fully evaluated on functional MRI recordings, because only through the recent introduction of fast multiband fMRI sequences, feasable temporal resolutions are reached. Combining the Eigenspectrum normalization of Ω entropy and the scalable architecture of the so called Multivariate Principal Subspace Entropy (MPSE) leads to a new complexity measure, namely normalized MPSE (nMPSE). It allows functional brain complexity analyses at varying levels of EV energy, independent from global shifts in data variance. Especially the restriction of the EV spectrum to the first dimensions, carrying the most prominent data variance, can act as a filter to reveal the most discriminant factors of dependent variables. Here we look at the effects of healthy aging on the dimensional complexity of brain activity. We employ a large open access dataset, providing a great number of high quality fast multiband recordings. Using nMPSE on whole brain, regional, network and searchlight approaches, we were able to find many age related changes, i.e., in sensorimotoric and right inferior frontal brain regions. Our results implicate that research on dimensional complexity of functional MRI recordings promises to be a unique resource for understanding brain function and for the extraction of biomarkers.
OriginalspracheEnglisch
Aufsatznummer451
ZeitschriftFrontiers in Human Neuroscience
Jahrgang12
ISSN1662-5161
DOIs
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 19.11.2018

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