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Table 1 Summary of EEG DBS studies and their principal results. Subjects number were given only for those who had direct stimulation or ON/OFF DBS protocol

From: Electroencephalographic read-outs of the modulation of cortical network activity by deep brain stimulation

Study

Subjects

DBS target

Protocol

DBS effect

Direct effect

  Ashby et al. (2001)

6 PD

STN

 

CEPs at 3, 5 and 8 ms

  Baker et al. (2002)

10 PD, 4 Epi

STN

 

CEPs from 1 to 400 ms

  MacKinnon et al. (2005)

11 PD

STN

Electrical skin stimulation

CEP at 23 ms

 Zumsteg (2006)

9 Epi

Thal

 

CEPs between 20 and 320 ms

 Zumsteg (2006)

6 Epi

Thal

 

CEPs at 24, 34 and 70 ms

  Tisch et al. (2008)

6 Pri Gen Dyst

GP

 

CEP at 26.6 ms

  Eusebio et al. (2009)

16 PD

STN

 

CEP at 21 ms

 Walker (2012a)

5 PD

STN

 

CEPs at 1, 5.7 and 22.2 ms

 Walker (2012b)

5 Ess Trem

Thal

 

CEPs at 0.9, 5.6 and 13.9 ms

ON/OFF designs

  Gerschlager et al. (1999)

10 PD, 10 HC

STN

Go/NoGo

Increased contingent negative variation amplitude

  Pierantozzi et al. (1999)

6 PD

STN, GPi

Electrical skin stimulation

Increased frontal N30 amplitude

  Gerschlager et al. (2001)

8 PD

STN

Auditory oddball task

No effect on P300 latency

  Priori et al. (2001)

9 PD

STN

Electrical skin stimulation

Reduced N20 amplitude

Passive visual task

Reduced P100 amplitude

  Devos et al. (2002)

6 PD

GPi

Wrist flexion movement

Increased contralateral premovement/movement ERD

  Devos et al. (2003)

10 PD

STN

Wrist flexion movement

Increased beta ERS

  Devos et al. (2004)

10 PD, 10 HC

STN

Wrist flexion movement

Reduced ERD spread and increased ERD amplitude

  Insola et al. (2005)

1 PD

STN

Electrical skin stimulation

Increased N20 and N30 amplitudes

  Silberstein et al. (2005)

16 PD

STN

Resting state

Reduced beta cortical coupling

  Jech et al. (2006)

11 PD

STN

Resting state

Reduced alpha power

Passive visual task

Reduced N70/P100

  Kovacs et al. (2008)

23 PD, 11 HC

STN

Auditory oddball task

P300 amplitude correlated to DBS voltage

  Conte et al. (2010)

13 PD, 13 HC

STN

Somatosensory temporal discrimination task

Reduced parietal SEP amplitude

  Klostermann et al. (2010)

10 PD

STN

Choice response task

Reduced lateralized readiness potentials

Oddball task

  Cavanagh et al. (2011)

14 PD

STN

Decision task

Inversed theta power relation to RT

  Swann et al. (2011)

15 PD, 15 HC

STN

Stop signal task

Increased right frontal beta power

  Broadway et al. (2012)

12 TRD

SCC

Resting state

Increased frontal theta cordance

 Selzler (2013)

10 PD, 20 HC

STN

Working memory task

Reduced N200 amplitude and increased N200 latency

  Figee et al. (2013)

13 OCD

NAc

Symptom provocation task

Reduced low frequency ERS

  Smolders et al. (2013)

8 OCD

NAc

Resting state

Reduced frontal theta phase stability

  Quraan et al. (2014)

12 TRD, 15 HC

SCC

Resting state

Frontal theta and parietal alpha asymmetry dependent on clinical response

 Hilimire (2015)

7 TRD

SCC

Emotional self referential task

Reduced P1 and P3 amplitudes

  Gulberti et al. (2015a)

12 PD, 12 HC

STN

Rhythmic auditory stimulation

Reduced P1/N1 amplitude

  Gulberti et al. (2015b)

12 PD, 12 HC

STN

Rhythmic auditory stimulation

Resting state

Normalized beta modulation

Reduced beta power

  Sun et al. (2015)

20 TRD

SCC

Working memory task

Reduced frontal gamma and beta power and increased theta-gamma coupling

 Kibleur (2016)

12 OCD

STN

Stop signal task

Reduced P300 amplitude and increased P300 latency and reduced basal ganglia to right frontal cx connection strength

 Kibleur (2017)

5 TRD

SCC

Emotional Stroop task

Reduced N170 amplitude and reduced temporal pole to visual ventral cx connection strength

  1. PD Parkinson’s Disease, Epi epilepsy, Pri Gen Dyst primary generalized dystonia, Ess Trem Essential Tremor, HC healthy control, TRD treatment resistant depression, OCD obsessive compulsive disorder, STN subthalamic nucleus, Thal thalamus, GP globus pallidus, GPi globus pallidus internus, NAc nucleus accumbens, SCC subcallosal cingulate cortex, SCEP subcortical-cortical evoked potential, ERS event related synchronization, ERD event related desynchronization, SEP somato-sensory evoked potential, RT reaction time, cx cortex