Left hemispheric α band cerebral oscillatory changes correlate with verbal memory

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Abstract

Event-related synchronisation (ERS) and event-related desynchronisation (ERD) have been observed via magnetoencephalography (MEG) in the language-dominant hemisphere. However, the relationship between ERS/ERD and clinical language indices is unclear. Therefore, the present study evaluated brain activity utilising MEG during a verb generation task in 36 subjects and determined ERS/ERD power values in θ, α, β, low γ and high γ frequency bands. To measure clinical language indices, we adopted Wechsler Memory Scale-revised. We observed ERD in the α band from the bilateral occipital to the left central brain region, in the β band from the bilateral occipital to the left frontal region and in the low γ band a high-power signal in the left frontal region. We also observed ERS in the θ band in bilateral frontal region and in the high γ band in bilateral occipital region. Furthermore, we found a significant negative correlation between α-band ERD power at the left postcentral gyrus and medial superior frontal gyrus and verbal memory score (correlation coefficients = − 0.574 and − 0.597, respectively). These results suggest that individuals with lower linguistic memory have less desynchronised α-band ERD power and α-band ERD power in the left hemisphere may be a neurophysiological biomarker for verbal memory.

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Araki, T., Watanabe, Y., & Hirata, M. (2020). Left hemispheric α band cerebral oscillatory changes correlate with verbal memory. Scientific Reports, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-72087-3

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