Table 3 EEG and MEG methods.

From: Resting-state EEG and MEG gamma frequencies in schizophrenia: a systematic review and exploratory power-spectrum meta-analysis

Reference

Recording

Sampling rate

Filtering

Artifact rejection

Epochs

Data normalization

Source location

Analysis

Rutter 2009

MEG, 275 ch, Eyes closed, 4’

600 hz

0.61–150 hz, 60 hz notch

First and last 10” rejected

Na

Constant noise estimate; absolute/relative power use: Na

Synthetic aperture magnetometry (SAM); constant noise estimation normalization

SAM Power spectra (source level)

Venables 2009

EEG, 27 ch, 3’ eyes open and 3’ eyes closed

500 hz

0.05–100 hz, 60 hz notch

Epochs exceeding ± 200 mV, 2 hz high pass, PCA

4” N = Na

Baseline correction; use of absolute power

Na

Rectified frequency amplitude (sensor level)

Kikuchi 2011

EEG, 17 ch, 3’ with eyes closed

200 hz

1.5–60 hz

Manual visual inspection

2.56” N > 15

averaging over the all epochs; log transformation

Na

Omega complexity and Local Complexity Differentials (sensor level)

Hanslmayr 2012

EEG, 61 ch, 4’, eyes open

500 Hz

0.1–250 hz, 50 hz notch

Manual visual inspection, ICA

2” N = 115

Use of relative power

Dynamic imaging of coherence sources (DICS)

Mean power levels (source level)

Andreou 2014a

EEG, 64 ch, 5–10’ with eyes closed

1000 hz

0.1–70 hz

ICA

2” N = 198 ± 40.4

Na; use of relative power

eLORETA

Power envelopes correlates (source and sensor level)

Andreou 2014b

EEG, 64ch, 5–10’ with eyes closed

1000 hz

0.1–70 hz

ICA

2” N = 212 ± 52.3

Na; use of relative power

eLORETA

Multivariate interaction measure (source and sensor level)

Garakh 2014

EEG, 19 ch, 100” with eyes closed

Na

70 hz

custom designed multiple-source eye correction method (Novototskii-Vlasov et al., 2007), visual inspection

10–15”

.spectral power logarithmic

Transformation, use of relative power

Na

Mean spectral power (μV2/hz), (sensor level)

Kam 2014

EEG, 32 ch, 3’, eyes closed

1000 hz

High pass 0.5 Hz and 60 hz notch

Exclusion of activity >100 V; algorithm (Gratton 1983) for eye movement and blink removal; ICA

2.048”; at least 50” of artefact free data

Mean absolute power for each frequency band,logarithmic transformation

Na

Mean absolute power spectra, coherence using BrainVision Analyzer (sensor level)

Kim 2014

MEG, 306 ch, 150 s, eyes open

1001 hz

0.1–200 hz; notch na

Manual removal based on visual inspection

2.56” N = na

No; use of absolute power

sLORETA

Absolute current estimates, frequency spectrum, coherence estimates (source level)

Di Lorenzo 2015

EEG, 37 ch, 3’ with eyes closed

1024 hz

1–100 hz, 60 hz notch

Semiautomatic removal of artifacts, ICA

2” N = na

Na; use of absolute power

eLORETA using Montreal neurological institute space (MNI)

Spectral time series of centroid voxel for each ROI, eLORETA connectivity algorithm (source level)

Hirano 2015

EEG, 71 ch, not specified duration and eyes open/closed conditions

512 hz

0.1–100 hz

Exclusion of activity>200 microV and variation >90 microvolt, ICA

1” N = 139 + 27

Na, use of absolute power

Single epoch source dipole; BESA

Time-frequency and power spectra analysis using generalized Morse wavelet transform; debiased phase amplitude coupling (source level)

Mitra 2015

EEG, 192 ch, 3’, eyes closed

512 HZ

0.1–120 hz, 50 hz notch

Visual inspection

30”

Recomputing with common average reference; use of absolute power

Na

Averaged power spectra (sensor level)

Tikka 2015

EEG, 192 ch, 10’ eyes closed

512 hz

30–100 hz, 50 hz notch

Visual inspection

Na; at least 60” of clean EEG

Recomputing with common average reference; Log transformation; use of absolute power

Na

Spectral power with Welch periodogram, cross spectral coherence (sensor level)

Ramyaed 2016

EEG, 19 ch, 20’ eyes closed

250 hz

1 hz, 50 hz notch

Visual inspection + ICA

2” N = 638

Na; use of absolute power

eLORETA, statistical nonparametric mapping

Current source density analysis, lagged phase synchronization (source level)

Umesh 2016

EEG, 192 ch, 10’ with eyes closed

512 hz

0–120 hz

Visual inspection

Na; 60” total recording

Log transformation, application of Fisher Z, use of absolute power

Na

Spectral power and cross-spectral coherence with the Welch averaged periodogram method (sensor level)

Won 2017

EEG, 21 ch, 4’, eyes closed

1000 hz

1 hz high pass, 60 hz notch

Visual inspection + ICA

1”, at least 2’ of clean EEG

detrending to remove the DC component; removal of outliers for P < 0.05; use of absolute power

Na

Absolute spectral powers; Cohen synchronization index (sensor level)

Arikan 2018

EEG, 19 ch, 3’, with eyes closed

500 hz

0.15–70 hz

Visual inspection

Na

Na; use of absolute power

Na

Averaged spectral power (sensor level)

Baradits 2018

EEG, 256 ch, 2’ with eyes closed

512 hz

0.1–100 hz, 48–52 hz notch

Manual visual inspection + ICA using the ADJUST toolbox

2” N = na

Log10 transformation; use of absolute power

Na

Absolute power based on the Welch’s method; spectral centroid calculation (sensor level)

Grent-t’-Jong 2018

MEG, 248 ch, 5’ with eyes open

1017.25 hz

0.5–150 hz, 50 hz notch

Visual inspection + ICA

1” N = 240

Data rescaled per trial and channel, use of absolute power

Dynamic imaging of coherence sources (DICS) beamforming

Power spectra (source level)

Hirano 2018

EEG, 71 ch, not specified duration and eyes open/closed conditions

512 hz

Na

ICA with the debiased phase amplitude coupling procedure

0.5” N = na

Normalization of the dPAC with z scores; use of absolute power

Single epoch waveform for each source dipole using the brain electric source analysis (BESA)

Debiased phase-amplitude coupling measure by von-Driel Morse wavelet (source level)

Jonak 2018

EEG, 21 ch, 10’ recording with eyes closed

512 hz

0.5–70 hz, 50 hz notch

Visual inspection

8” N = 25

Na

Na

Phase lag index, graph analysis with a minimum spanning tree (sensor level)

Krukow 2018

EEG, 21 ch, 10’ with eyes closed

500 hz

0.5–50 hz,

Visual inspection

8.19” N = 8

Na

Na

Phase lag index (sensor level)

Takahashi 2018

EEG, 16 ch, 10–15’ with eyes closed

200 hz

1.5–60 hz

Visual inspection; elimination of initial and final epochs

5” N = 12

Use of relative power

Na

Phase lag index, spectral power, coherence (coherence matrices, Hilbert transform), node degree calculation (sensor level)

Zeev-Wolf 2018

MEG, 248 ch, 2’ with open eyes

1017 hz

0.1–100 hz

Visual inspection + ICA

20”, 120 epochs

Na; use of absolute power

Cross-spectral density matrix, construction of a shell brain model

Averaged power spectra (source and sensor level)

Lottman 2019

MEG, 148 ch, 5 min with eyes closed

1000 hz

0.1–200 hz, Notch filter 60, 120 hz

Visual inspection + ICA

Na

standardizing the Hilbert Data covariance matrices were regularized using a median eigenvalue approach; envelope with a 1/frequency compensation; Absolute power values of envelopes

Linearly constrained minimum variance beamformer

Hilbert envelopes’ values computation; pairwise Pearson’s correlations between RSN time courses (source level)

Vignapiano 2019

EEG, 29 ch, 5’ with eyes closed

512 hz

0.15–70 Hz

Visual inspection + ICA

2”, at least 50% of epochs recorded to be included

Na; use of absolute power

Na

Square root of averaged spectral power (sensor level)

Alamian 2020

MEG, 275 ch, 5’ with eyes open and 5’ with eyes closed

1200 hz

0.1–150 hz; 60, 120, 180, 240, 300 hz notch

Visual inspection + ICA

Na

Na

NeuroPycon pipeline with minimum norm estimates

Detrended fluctuation analysis; support vectoring machine on long range temporal correlations (source level)

Freche 2020

EEG, 64 ch, 260 ± 60” with eyes open

1024 hz

1–150 hz, 50 hz notch

Visual inspection + ICA; elimination of initial and final epochs

Na 180” total

data normalized using the quartile-based coefficient of variation; use of relative power

Na

Relative power and power spectra density (sensor level)

Kim 2020

EEG, 62 ch, 5’ with eyes closed

1000 hz

1–100 hz

Visual inspection

2” N = 30

Use of relative power

Depth-weighted minimum L2 norm estimator

Current source densities; phase locking values; graph theory based network analysis (source level)

Krukow 2020

EEG, 21 ch, 15’ with eyes closed

250 hz

0.5–70 Hz, 50 Hz notch

Manual visual inspection

16” N = 45

Na, use of absolute power

eLORETA using Montreal neurological institute space (MNI) and statistical nonparametric mapping

Lagged phase synchronization (source level)

Lee 2020

EEG, 128 ch, 2–5’, with eyes closed

1000 hz

0.5–100 Hz

Manual visual inspection + ICA

4” N = 25

Na; use of absolute power

sLORETA

Basic finite impulse filter, modulation index for theta-gamma coupling (source level)

Soni 2020

EEG, 128 ch, 5–6’ with eyes closed

1000 hz

1–100 hz

Manual visual inspection

1” N = 20

Na; use of absolute power

Equivalent current dipole, MNI brain model

Power spectra density, linear coherence analysis (source level)

Tanaka-Koshiyama 2020

EEG, 40 ch, 328 s, eyes open

1000 hz

0.5–100 Hz

Visual inspection + EEGLAB plugin “clean raw data” + ICA

Na

Na

Equivalent current dipole with fieldtrip function

Grand averaged spectral power (μV2/hz) (sensor level)

Koshiyama 2021a

EEG, 40 ch, 3 min with eyes open

1000 hz

0.5–100 Hz

EEGLAB plugin “clean rew data” including artefact subspace reconstruction

5” N = Na

Na

Equivalent current dipole, fieldtrip function

Power spectra density using Welch method; phase discontinuity index using wavelet transform data (source level)

Koshiyama 2021b

EEG, 40 ch, 3 min with eyes open

1000 hz

0.5–100 Hz

EEGLAB plugin “clean rew data” including artefact subspace reconstruction

Na

Na

Equivalent current dipole using fieldtrip function

Phase amplitude coupling toolbox for EEG lab, using Hilbert transform (source level)

Sun 2021

EEG, 64 ch, 7 min with eyes closed

500 hz

0.1–100 hz

Na

Na

Na

Na

Binarized, weighted network analysis evaluating clustering coefficient and path length (sensor level)

Yadav 2021

EEG, 192 ch, 10 min with eyes closed

Na

0.1–120 Hz

Visual inspection

60” N = Na

Log transformation; use of absolute power

Na

Spectral power with Welch’s averaged periodogram (sensor level)

Gordillo 2022

EEG, 64 ch, 5 min with eyes closed

2048 hz

0.1–100 hz; 50 hz notch

Visual inspection + ICA

2” N = 30–40

Log transformation; use of absolute power

LORETA

Time domain amplitude features, range EEG, Hjorth parameters, spectral amplitude, modulation index, fractal dimension, hurst exponent, detrended fluctuation analysis, life and waiting times, entropy in the time domain, complexity measures, recurrent quantification analysis, microstate parameters, directed transfer function, instantaneous and lagged phase synchronization, network analysis, partial least square correlation (sensor and source level)

Tagawa 2022

MEG, 306 ch, 7 min with eyes open

Na

0.1–400 hz, 50 hz notch

Oversampled temporal projection; signal space separation; ICA

Na

0–1 rescaling; use of absolute power

Minimum norm estimates

Graph analysis on orthogonalized amplitude envelope correlations parameters: degree centrality, clustering coefficient, global efficiency, local efficiency, small worldness (source level)

Ibanez-Molina 2023

EEG, 31 ch, 5 min with eyes closed

1000 hz

Na

Visual inspection + ICA

Na

Na

Na

Mutual information of multiple rhythm (MIMR): sample entropy and phase amplitude coupling (Hilbert transform) (sensor level)

Jacob 2023

EEG, 32 ch, 6 min eyes open

Na

0.5–100 hz

artifact subtraction, canonical correlation analysis, semi-automatic hearthbeat detection algorithm, ICA

2” N = Na

Na; use of absolute power

Na

Power spectra, aperiodic power (sensor level)

Yeh 2023

EEG, 32 ch, 5 min eyes open and 5 min eyes closed

4000 hz

0.5–100 hz

Visual inspection + ICA

4” N = 25

Na, use of absolute power

eLORETA

Lagged phase synchronization (source level)

Chang 2024

EEG, 64 ch, 4 min eyes open and 4 min eyes closed

1000 hz

1–200 hz, 50 hz notch

ICA; exclusion of variations > ±100 µV

2” N = Na

Na

Na

Weighted Phase lag index with network analysis (node degree, global efficiency, local efficiency, betweenness centrality, clustering coefficient) (sensor level)

  1. ANCOVA analysis of covariance, ANOVA analysis of variance, LORETA low-resolution tomography analysis, MANOVA multivariate analysis of variance, MNI Minnesota neuroscience institute, TANOVA topographic analysis of variance, TANCOVA topographic analysis of co-variance.