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In a previos study (Harmony et al. 1993) we observed that the volume of lesions was correlated only with delta power, while the volume and density of edema showed a significant correlation with theta and alpha power, suggesting two independent origins of activity in the delta and theta bands in patients with space-occupying lesions. Our goal in this paper is to show, through a different technique, in a narrow band spectral analysis, that brain lesions are characterized by activity in the delta domain and that edema is better correlated with activity within the theta range. Frequency source analysis based on the Maximum Likelihood (ML) test for rejection of isotropicity was applied to the EEG at rest of 36 patients with space-occupying intracranial lesions. The ML test was rejected at frequencies below 1 Hz and in the low range of the delta rhythm in 31 patients. The origin of the equivalent dipoles at these frequencies was within the volume of the lesion in 27 patients. In IS patients out of 19 with vasogenic edema the ML test was rejected at frequencies in the theta range. The equivalent dipoles at these frequencies were all within the volume of the edema.
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This study was supported in part by DGAPA, UNAM, Project IN202492.
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Harmony, T., Fernández-Bouzas, A., Marosi, E. et al. Frequency source analysis in patients with brain lesions. Brain Topogr 8, 109–117 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01199774
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