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  • Cognitive Science
  • Neurology

Background:

  • Working Memory (WM) impairment is a common deficit in Multiple Sclerosis (MS).
  • Neurobiological evidence for WM deficits in MS remains limited.
  • Early identification of WM alterations is crucial for managing MS progression.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the neurobiological mechanisms underlying Working Memory (WM) deficits in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) patients.
  • To compare electroencephalographic (EEG) activity and cortical connectivity during WM tasks between MS patients and healthy controls (HC).
  • To identify early electrophysiological markers of cognitive impairment in MS.

Main Methods:

  • Recorded EEG activity in 20 relapsing-remitting MS patients with minimal cognitive deficit and 20 HC subjects during a WM task.
  • Analyzed theta and gamma band activity, their correlation with memory load and performance.
  • Utilized Granger causality and phase-amplitude coupling for cortical connectivity analysis between frontal and parietal regions.

Main Results:

  • Healthy controls showed correlations between temporoparietal theta and memory load, and medial frontal theta and successful performance, which were absent in MS patients.
  • Cortical connectivity analyses revealed a load-modulated frontal-to-parietal progression in HC, but not in MS patients.
  • This frontal-to-parietal connectivity correlated with working memory capacity in MS patients, suggesting an early compensatory mechanism.

Conclusions:

  • MS patients exhibit distinct alterations in the oscillatory dynamics and cortical connectivity underlying working memory, even with minimal cognitive deficits.
  • These findings highlight early neurophysiological changes in MS that could serve as biomarkers.
  • Understanding these early alterations in brain activity is essential for developing targeted therapeutic interventions for cognitive dysfunction in MS.