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    Area of Science:

    • Neuroscience
    • Computational Psychiatry

    Background:

    • Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) diagnosis lacks reliable biomarkers, hindering objective assessment.
    • Electroencephalography (EEG) microstate analysis shows potential for detecting GAD-related neural dynamics but suffers from limited spatial resolution and sensitivity.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop and validate a novel framework integrating FastICA with microstate analysis to enhance spatial specificity in EEG signal decomposition for improved GAD identification.
    • To refine EEG-based biomarkers for anxiety disorders through advanced signal processing techniques.

    Main Methods:

    • Implemented a novel framework combining Fast Independent Component Analysis (FastICA) with EEG microstate analysis.
    • Isolated dominant independent components and projected them onto high-weight channels to reduce signal mixing and enhance spatial resolution.
    • Analyzed microstate features (occurrence, coverage, duration, transition probabilities) in a cohort of 28 GAD patients and 28 healthy controls.
    • Utilized Support Vector Machine (SVM) for classification using enhanced and standard microstate features.

    Main Results:

    • FastICA-enhanced microstate features demonstrated significantly stronger intergroup differences in parameters like microstate A* occurrence, coverage, and duration.
    • Altered transition probabilities (e.g., C*→B*) were identified, indicating improved discriminative power for anxiety-specific neural patterns.
    • SVM classification using enhanced features showed a 3.6% increase in sensitivity and a 5.5% increase in precision compared to the standard approach.

    Conclusions:

    • The proposed FastICA-enhanced microstate analysis framework significantly improves spatial resolution and discriminative power for identifying GAD.
    • This approach offers a clinically translatable pathway for objective GAD diagnosis by refining EEG-based biomarkers.
    • Future research should explore this framework for other psychiatric conditions and integrate multimodal machine learning models.