EEG Microstates in Mood and Anxiety Disorders: A Meta-analysis
Language English Country United States Media print-electronic
Document type Meta-Analysis, Journal Article
Grant support
TE126/2022
Unitatea Executiva pentru Finantarea Invatamantului Superior, a Cercetarii, Dezvoltarii si Inovarii
FNBr 65269705
Ministerstvo Zdravotnictví Ceské Republiky
PubMed
37615799
PubMed Central
PMC11026263
DOI
10.1007/s10548-023-00999-0
PII: 10.1007/s10548-023-00999-0
Knihovny.cz E-resources
- Keywords
- Anxiety, Bipolar Disorder, Depression, Meta-Analysis, Microstates, PTSD, Panic Disorder,
- MeSH
- Electroencephalography * methods MeSH
- Humans MeSH
- Brain * physiopathology MeSH
- Mood Disorders * physiopathology MeSH
- Anxiety Disorders * physiopathology MeSH
- Check Tag
- Humans MeSH
- Publication type
- Journal Article MeSH
- Meta-Analysis MeSH
To reduce the psycho-social burden increasing attention has focused on brain abnormalities in the most prevalent and highly co-occurring neuropsychiatric disorders, such as mood and anxiety. However, high inter-study variability in these patients results in inconsistent and contradictory alterations in the fast temporal dynamics of large-scale networks as measured by EEG microstates. Thus, in this meta-analysis, we aim to investigate the consistency of these changes to better understand possible common neuro-dynamical mechanisms of these disorders.In the systematic search, twelve studies investigating EEG microstate changes in participants with mood and anxiety disorders and individuals with subclinical depression were included in this meta-analysis, adding up to 787 participants.The results suggest that EEG microstates consistently discriminate mood and anxiety impairments from the general population in patients and subclinical states. Specifically, we found a small significant effect size for B microstates in patients compared to healthy controls, with larger effect sizes for increased B presence in unmedicated patients with comorbidity. In a subgroup meta-analysis of ten mood disorder studies, microstate D showed a significant effect size for decreased presence. When investigating only the two anxiety disorder studies, we found a significantly small effect size for the increased microstate A and a medium effect size for decreased microstate E (one study). However, more studies are needed to elucidate whether these findings are diagnostic-specific markers.Results are discussed in relation to the functional meaning of microstates and possible contribution to an explanatory mechanism of overlapping symptomatology of mood and anxiety disorders.
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