Identifying attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder through the electroencephalogram complexity

Dimitri Marques Abramov, Henrique Santos Lima, Vladimir Lazarev, Paulo Ricardo Galhanone and Constantino Tsallis

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2024, vol. 653, issue C

Abstract: There are reasons to suggest that a number of mental disorders may be related to alteration in the neural complexity (NC). Thus, quantitative analysis of NC could be helpful in classifying mental and understanding conditions. Here, focusing on a methodological procedure, we have worked with young individuals, typical and with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) whose NC was assessed using q-statistics applied to the electroencephalogram (EEG). The EEG was recorded while subjects performed the visual Attention Network Test (ANT) and during a short pretask period of resting state. Time intervals of the EEG amplitudes that passed a threshold were collected from task and pretask signals from each subject. The data were satisfactorily fitted with a stretched q-exponential including a power-law prefactor(characterized by the exponent c), thus determining the best (c,q) for each subject, indicative of their individual complexity. We found larger values of q and c in ADHD subjects as compared with the typical subjects both at task and pretask periods, the task values for both groups being larger than at rest. The c parameter was highly specific in relation to DSM diagnosis for inattention, where well-defined clusters were observed. The parameter values were organized in four well-defined clusters in (c,q)-space. As expected, the tasks apparently induced greater complexity in neural functional states with likely greater amount of internal information processing. The results suggest that complexity is higher in ADHD subjects than in typical pairs. The distribution of values in the (c,q)-space derived from q-statistics seems to be a promising biomarker for ADHD diagnosis.

Keywords: Complexity; Attention deficit/hiperactivity disorder; q-statistics; Electroencephalogram; Psychopathology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2024.130093

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