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Cortical Source Analysis of High-Density EEG Recordings in Children
Published on: June 30, 2014
[Biological age estimation based on the spectral analysis of the human brain bioelectric activity.]
G A Shabanov1, A A Rybchenko1, E A Lugovaya1
1Scientific Research Center «Arktika» Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 24 pr. К.Marks, Magadan 685000, Russian Federation,
Abstract:
For the first time, the research work offers a method of estimating human biological age based on the spectral analysis of the brain bioelectric activity. IDC decentralization index, which could consider summary degree of reduction of the background neurotrophic influences of the brain activating system on the peripheral tissues and organs, was developed. The close to linear dependence of the IDC index on the age of healthy people aged 10-90 as well as on the oncological patients' cancer G1-G4 cells differentiation was obtained. The cell disorders and mutations in relation with the age from 10 to 90 could be seen in growth of the IDC index from 100 to 900 units. The greater amount of the cell mutations in the oncological patients with the G1-G4 differentiation resulted in the IDC index growth up to the 3 000 units and more. All the obtained data allowed estimating the real biological age after a 10-minute registration of the human brain bioelectric activity. The accuracy increased with the averaging several surveys taken from one particular person. The technology will be highly efficient for scientific researches in the field of gerontology, monitoring of healthy people, revealing of risk groups, and for controlling of the cancer patients' medical treatment.

