• Clinical biomechanics · Apr 2019

    Changes in event-related potential functional networks predict traumatic brain injury in piglets.

    • Lorre S Atlan, Ingrid S Lan, Colin Smith, and Susan S Margulies.
    • Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, 210 S. 33rd St., 240 Skirkanich Hall, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6321, USA. Electronic address: latlan@seas.upenn.edu.
    • Clin Biomech (Bristol, Avon). 2019 Apr 1; 64: 14-21.

    BackgroundTraumatic brain injury is a leading cause of cognitive and behavioral deficits in children in the US each year. None of the current diagnostic tools, such as quantitative cognitive and balance tests, have been validated to identify mild traumatic brain injury in infants, adults and animals. In this preliminary study, we report a novel, quantitative tool that has the potential to quickly and reliably diagnose traumatic brain injury and which can track the state of the brain during recovery across multiple ages and species.MethodsUsing 32 scalp electrodes, we recorded involuntary auditory event-related potentials from 22 awake four-week-old piglets one day before and one, four, and seven days after two different injury types (diffuse and focal) or sham. From these recordings, we generated event-related potential functional networks and assessed whether the patterns of the observed changes in these networks could distinguish brain-injured piglets from non-injured.FindingsPiglet brains exhibited significant changes after injury, as evaluated by five network metrics. The injury prediction algorithm developed from our analysis of the changes in the event-related potentials functional networks ultimately produced a tool with 82% predictive accuracy.InterpretationThis novel approach is the first application of auditory event-related potential functional networks to the prediction of traumatic brain injury. The resulting tool is a robust, objective and predictive method that offers promise for detecting mild traumatic brain injury, in particular because collecting event-related potentials data is noninvasive and inexpensive.Copyright © 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.

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