PMID- 36248651 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20221019 IS - 1662-4548 (Print) IS - 1662-453X (Electronic) IS - 1662-453X (Linking) VI - 16 DP - 2022 TI - Enhanced effective connectivity from the middle frontal gyrus to the parietal lobe is associated with impaired mental rotation after total sleep deprivation: An electroencephalogram study. PG - 910618 LID - 10.3389/fnins.2022.910618 [doi] LID - 910618 AB - Sleep deprivation impairs cognitive functions, including attention, memory, and decision-making. Studies on the neuro-electro-physiological mechanisms underlying total sleep deprivation (TSD) that impairs spatial cognition are limited. Based on electroencephalogram (EEG) and Exact Low Resolution Brain Electromagnetic Tomography (eLORETA), this study focused on the effects of TSD on mental rotation and the cognitive neural mechanisms underlying its damage. Twenty-four healthy college students completed mental rotation tasks while resting and after 36 h of TSD; their EEG data were simultaneously recorded. The amplitude of P300 component associated with mental rotation was observed and localized through source reconstruction, while changes in effective connectivity between multiple brain regions associated with mental rotation cognitive processing were calculated using isolated effective coherence (iCoh) of eLORETA. Compared with the baseline before TSD, the amplitude of the P300 component related to mental rotation decreased. The task-state data of P300 were localized to the source of the difference in ERP current density, and it was found that the brain regions related to the difference in the decrease in P300 amplitude included the superior parietal lobule, precuneus, prefrontal lobe, and other related regions. Effective connectivity analysis found that TSD enhanced the effective connectivity from the left middle frontal gyrus to the left superior parietal lobule, left inferior parietal lobule, and left precuneus under the identical condition. Pearson correlation analysis showed a positive correlation between the decrease in accuracy of mental rotation and increase in effective connectivity. Thus, our study suggests that TSD impairs the ability of the mental rotation, showing a decrease in P300 amplitude and an enhanced effective connectivity between the middle frontal gyrus and the parietal lobe in the task state. CI - Copyright (c) 2022 Li, Ma, Shao and Wang. FAU - Li, Yutong AU - Li Y AD - School of Psychology, Beijing Sport University, Beijing, China. FAU - Ma, Mengke AU - Ma M AD - School of Psychology, Beijing Sport University, Beijing, China. FAU - Shao, Yongcong AU - Shao Y AD - School of Psychology, Beijing Sport University, Beijing, China. FAU - Wang, Wei AU - Wang W AD - Department of Criminal Psychology, Northwest University of Political Science and Law, Xi'an, China. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20220930 PL - Switzerland TA - Front Neurosci JT - Frontiers in neuroscience JID - 101478481 PMC - PMC9566834 OTO - NOTNLM OT - P300 OT - effective connectivity OT - event-related potentials OT - mental rotation OT - sleep deprivation COIS- The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. EDAT- 2022/10/18 06:00 MHDA- 2022/10/18 06:01 PMCR- 2022/01/01 CRDT- 2022/10/17 05:09 PHST- 2022/04/01 00:00 [received] PHST- 2022/09/07 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2022/10/17 05:09 [entrez] PHST- 2022/10/18 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/10/18 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2022/01/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.3389/fnins.2022.910618 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Front Neurosci. 2022 Sep 30;16:910618. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2022.910618. eCollection 2022.