• 감성과학
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.403-413
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• 2005

본 연구에서는 긍정 또는 부정 시각자극이 제시되었을 때, 행동활성화체계(Behavioral Activation System : BAS) 민감 집단과 행동억제 체계(Behavioral Inhibition System : BIS) 민감 집단 사이에 차이가 있는지를 살펴보았다. 실험은 8명씩의 BAS와 BIS 민감 성향을 가진 남자 대학생을 대상으로 이루어졌고, 안정 상태와 국제정서사진체계(International Affective Picture System)의 긍정/부정 사진자극이 제시되는 동안의 뇌파를 측정하였다. 뇌파의 분석은 뇌 신호원 국소화를 위해, 뇌파의 전기적 신호에 의하여 형성되는 전류밀도에 대한 3차원적인 접근방식으로 데이터를 처리하는 방법 중의 하나인 LORETA(Low-resolution electromagnetic tomography)를 사용하였다. 그 결과, 긍정자극제시의 경우, BAS 민감 집단이 BIS민감 집단에 비해 알파 대역에서 변연계에 포함되는 cingulate gyrus와 전전두엽이 더 활성화되는 반응을 보였다. 이는 BAS 민감집단이 BIS 민감집단에 비해 긍정자극에 대한 반응이 더 민감하고, BAS 또는 BIS라는 인간의 동기체계가 감성자극의 인지와도 관련이 있을 가능성을 시사한다.

• 수면정신생리
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.91-99
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• 2010

목 적: 본 연구는 정신분열병의 결핍증후군과 비결핍증후군이 다른 생물학적 동등성을 가진 독립된 질환일 수 있다는 가설 아래 quantitative EEG와 standardized LORETA (sLORETA)를 이용한 전기생리학적인 방법을 통하여 생물학적 병인을 파악하고자 시도되었다. 방 법: 정신분열병 환자를 대상으로 42명의 뇌파를 비교 분석하였으며 그 중 결핍증후군 환자군은 남자 10명과 여자 11명이었고 비결핍증후군 환자군은 남자 12명, 여자 9명이었다. 주파수 대역은 delta(1.5~4 Hz), theta(4~8 Hz), alpha(8~12 Hz), low beta(12~15 Hz), high beta(15~30 Hz)의 5가지로 분할하였고 EEG LAB을 이용한 파워스펙트럼 분석 및 standardized sLORETA software package를 이용하여 신호원을 국소화 하였다. 결 과: 파워 스펙트럼 분석에서 결핍증후군 집단은 비결핍증후군과 비교하였을 때 전두엽, 두정엽 및 측두엽 영역에서 delta파와 theta파의 유의한 활성도 증가를 보였으며 뇌파 스펙트럼은 간편 정신상태 평정 척도 중 철퇴/지연과 적대/의심 항목의 임상적인 특징과 유의한 상관관계를 보였다. sLORETA분석 결과에서는 배측 전대상피질에서 결핍증후군에서 유의하게 delta파의 활성도가 증가되었다. 결 론: 결핍증후군은 비결핍증후군과는 연관된 뇌 영역이 다를 수 있으며 특히 전두엽 영역의 신경회로 이상이 일차적 음성증상에 영향을 줄 것으로 생각된다.

• 생물정신의학
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.87-94
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• 2015

Objectives The power spectral analysis of electroencephalogram has been widely used to reveal the pathophysiology of the alcoholic brain. However, the results were not consistent and the three dimensional study can be hardly found. The purpose of this study was to investigate characteristics of the three dimensional electroencephalographic (EEG) activity of alcohol dependent patients using standardized low resolution electromagnetic tomography (sLORETA). Methods The participants consisted of 30 alcohol dependent patients and 30 normal healthy controls. All the participants were males who had refrained from alcohol at least one month and were not taking any medications. Thirty two channel EEG data was collected in the resting state with eyes-closed condition during 30 seconds. The three dimensional data was compared between two groups using sLORETA for delta, theta, alpha, beta1, beta2, and beta3 frequency bands. Results sLORETA revealed significantly increased brain cortical activity in alpha, beta1, beta2, and beta3 bands each in alcohol dependent patients compared to normal controls. The voxels showing the maximum significance were in the left transverse temporal gyrus, left superior temporal gyrus, left anterior cingulate, and left fusiform gyrus in alpha, beta1, beta2, and beta3 bands respectively. Conclusions These results suggest that chronic alcohol intake may cause neurophysiological changes in cerebral activity. Therefore, the measuring of EEG can be helpful in understanding the pathophysiology of cognitive impairements in alcohol dependence.

• 동의신경정신과학회지
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.169-184
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• 2016

Objectives: To investigate the neurophysiological effect of acupuncture treatment on insomnia patients using quantitative electroencephalography (QEEG) and standardized Low Resolution Brain Electromagnetic Tomography method (sLORETA).Background: Insomnia is one of the commonly encountered symptoms in primary medical care. Recent studies of acupuncture for insomnia reported that the acupuncture groups showed significant improvements compared with the control groups. However, the neurophysiological mechanism of acupuncture in the treatment of insomnia has not been revealed and a few studies have measured the effect of acupuncture treatment using QEEG.Methods: Participants who had some problems in initiating or maintaining sleep, or had non-restorative sleep for more than 3 days a week and ISI scores above 8 and below 21 were treated by acupuncture for 2 weeks (3 times a week, total 6 times). We assessed the effectiveness of acupuncture for insomnia by the PSQI (Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index) at baseline and at 2 weeks after the end of treatment (4th week). Also, we performed EEG and analysed the EEG data at baseline and at the end of treatment (2nd week) on the linked ears montage using the Neuroguide software program and sLORETA.Results: Thirty-two participants were enrolled and 2 participants dropped out because of personal reasons. Among the 30 participants, EEGs of 12 participants were included in the analysis of QEEG and sLORETA. Total score on the ISI and PSQI was significantly decreased after acupuncture treatment. The number of electrodes exceeding the range of 90% (±1.65) or 95% (±1.96) in the z scored absolute power of beta was significantly decreased after acupuncture treatment. There was no significant change in brain activation between pre- and post-acupuncture using sLORETA.Conclusions: The deviation of absolute power compared to the normative database was significantly decreased after acupuncture treatment in the alpha and beta ranges. Therefore, we suggest that acupuncture treatment for insomnia might be effective through the central nervous system especially in the brain. There are many limitations to drawing any conclusion. Further studies are needed in the future to overcome these limitations.

• 한국인지과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국인지과학회 2005년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.151-153
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• 2005

We investigated the brain substrate of repetition priming on the implicit memory taskusing low-resolution electromagnetic tomography (LORETA) with high-density 128 channel EEG and individual MRI as a realistic head model. Thirteen right-handed, healthy subjects performed a word/nonword discrimination task, in which the words and nonwords were presented visually,and some of the words appeared twice with a lag of one or five items. All of the subjects exhibited repetition priming with respect to the behavioral data, in which a faster reaction time was observed to the repeated word (old word) than to the first presentation of the word (new word). The old words elicited more positive-going potentials than the new words, beginning at 200 ms and lasting until 500 ms post-stimulus. We conducted source reconstruction using LORETA at a latency of 400 ms with the peak mean global field potentials and used statistical parametric mapping for the statistical analysis. We found that the source elicited by the old words exhibited a statistically significant current density reduction in the left inferior frontal gyrus. This is the first study to investigate the generators of repetition priming using voxel-by-voxel statistical mapping of the current density with individual MRI and high-density EEG.

• 대한음성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한음성학회 2007년도 한국음성과학회 공동학술대회 발표논문집
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• pp.59-63
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• 2007

Neuromagnetic fields were recorded from normal 10 subjects to investigate the time course of cerebral neural activation during the resolution of lexical ambiguity. All recordings were made using a whole-head 306-channel MEG (Elekta Neuromag TM Inc., $Vectorview^{TM}$). The observed activity was described by sLORETA (standardized low resolution brain electromagnetic tomography) techniques implemented in CURRY software (Neuroscan). In the results, bilaterally occipito-temporal lobe was activated at 170ms. At 250ms was associated with bilateral temporal lobe during ambiguous condition, whereas in left parietal, temporal lobe on unambiguous condition. The left frontal lobe, temporal lobe were activated at 350ms for all condition. At approximately 430ms, was activated in right frontal, temporal lobe on the resolving ambiguous condition, in left parietal lobe, right temporal lobe on the preserving ambiguous condition. In conclusion, the cerebral activations related to the resolving lexical ambiguity were right frontal lobe and the areas of mountainous ambiguity were left parietal lobe.

• 수면정신생리
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.75-81
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• 2013

목 적 : 혐오 자극에 대한 뇌의 기능적 영상 연구에 있어서 기능적 자기공명영상, 양전자방출단층촬영 등의 연구는 많이 진행되어 있으나 저해상 전자기 단층촬영(low resolution brain electromagnetic tomography) 분석을 이용한 연구는 거의 없다. 본 연구의 목적은 피험자들에게 시각적 혐오자극을 준 후 나타나는 대뇌 피질의 활성변화를 저해상 전자기 단층촬영을 이용하여 파악하고자 하는 것이다. 방 법 : 총 45명($27.1{\pm}2.6$세)의 건강한 젊은 성인남녀가 연구에 참여하였다. 국제정서사진체계를 사용하여 중립자극에서 4장, 신체훼손과 관련된 혐오자극에서 4장의 사진을 뽑아 피험자들에게 각 30초간 보여주면서 뇌파를 측정하였다. 저해상 전자기 단층촬영분석을 시행하여 중립자극에 대비해 혐오자극에서의 변화된 전류밀도를 비교 분석하였다. 결 과 : 혐오시각 자극을 받는 동안 피험자 모두 불쾌감, 놀람, 스트레스를 받았다고 보고하였다. 저해상 전자기 단층촬영 분석상 세타파에서 좌측 전두엽의 위이마이랑(BA10)과 중간이마이랑(BA10, 11) 영역에서 유의미한 전류밀도의 감소를 보이는 복셀 클러스터가 관찰되었다. 이 복셀 클러스터는 총 11개의 복셀로 구성되어 있으며 유의미한 전류밀도(p<0.05)의 감소를 나타내는 t값의 임계값은 -1.984이었다. 남녀 간의 혐오 반응 정도에 유의미한 차이는 없었다. 결 론 : 이 연구의 결과인 시각 혐오자극에 의한 배외측 전전두엽의 활성은 혐오 정서의 조절과 관여되어 있을 것으로 생각된다.

• The Korean Journal of Pain
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• 제34권4호
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• pp.437-446
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• 2021

Background: Non-invasive painless signaling therapy (NPST) is an electro-cutaneous treatment that converts endogenous pain information into synthetic non-pain information. This study explored whether pain improvement by NPST in failed back surgery syndrome (FBSS) patients is related to cerebral modulation. Methods: Electroencephalography (EEG) analysis was performed in 11 patients with FBSS. Subjects received daily NPST for 5 days. Before the first treatment, patients completed the Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) and Beck Depression Inventory and underwent baseline EEG. After the final treatment, they responded again to the BPI, reported the percent pain improvement (PPI), and then underwent post-treatment EEG. If the PPI grade was zero, they were assigned to the ineffective group, while all others were assigned to the effective group. We used standardized low-resolution brain electromagnetic tomography (sLORETA) to explore the EEG current-source distribution (CSD) associated with pain improvement by NPST. Results: The 11 participants had a median age of 67.0 years, and 63.6% were female. The sLORETA images revealed a beta-2 CSD increment in 12 voxels of the right anterior cingulate gyrus (ACG) and the right medial frontal area. The point of maximal CSD changes was in the right ACG. The alpha band CSD increased in 2 voxels of the left transverse gyrus. Conclusions: Pain improvement by NPST in FBSS patients was associated with increased cerebral activity, mainly in the right ACG. The change in afferent information induced by NPST seems to be associated with cerebral pain perception.

• 생물정신의학
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.168-176
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• 2003

Objectives:We investigated the characteristics of P300 generators in obsessive-compulsive disorder(OCD) patients by using voxel-based statistical parametric mapping of current density images. Methods:P300 generators, produced by a rare target tone of 1500Hz under a frequent non-target tone of 1,000Hz, were measured in 15 right-handed OCD patients and 15 controls. Low Resolution Electromagnetic Tomography(LORETA), using a realistic head model of the boundary element method based on individual MRI, was applied to the 128-channel EEG. Statistical parametric mapping(SPM) was applied for the statistical analysis. Results:We found that both groups had the mean current density of P300 in the parietal, temporal and prefrontal lobe. There was a trend for decreased current density in the prefrontal area in OCD patients. The statistical comparison showed current density increase in the supraparietal area, a statistically significant longer P300 latency and a trend for reduced P300 amplitude in OCD patients. Conclusion:It suggests that P300 source of both groups exists in multiple brain regions at the same time. And both groups had no statistically significant differences in the current density of P300 except for increased current density in the supraparietal area in OCD patients. But, considering the statistically significant longer P300 latency, a trend for reduced P300 amplitude and relative mean current density reduction in the prefrontal area in OCD patients, this study suggests that the frontal lobe may have a reduced normal inhibitory process in OCD patients.

• Annals of Clinical Neurophysiology
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.16-29
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• 2019

Background: Sex influences is important to understand behavioral manifestations in a large number of neuropsychiatric disorders. We found electrophysiological differences specifically related to the influence of sex on psychopathic traits. Methods: The resting electroencephalography (EEG) activity and low-resolution brain electromagnetic tomography (LORETA) for the EEG spectral bands were evaluated in 38 teenagers with conduct disorder (CD). The 25 male and 13 female subjects had psychopathic traits as diagnosed using the Antisocial Process Screening Device. All of the included adolescents were assessed using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR) criteria. The visually inspected EEG characteristics and the use of frequency-domain quantitative analysis techniques are described. Results: Quantitative EEG (QEEG) analysis showed that the slow-wave activities in the right frontal and left central regions were higher and the alpha-band powers in the left central and bitemporal regions were lower in the male than the female psychopathic traits group. The current source density showed increases in paralimbic areas at 2.73 Hz and decreases in the frontoparietal area at 9.37 Hz in male psychopathics relative to female psychopathics. Conclusions: These findings indicate that QEEG analysis and techniques of source localization can reveal sex differences in brain electrical activity between teenagers with CD and psychopathic traits that are not obvious in visual inspections.