Decreased Global Network Efficiency in Young Male Smoker: An EEG Study during the Resting State

Shaoping Su; Dahua Yu; Jiadong Cheng; Jiadong Cheng; Yajing Chen; Xiaohua Zhang; Yanyan Guan; Yanyan Guan; Yangding Li; Yanzhi Bi; Yanzhi Bi; Ting Xue; Xiaoqi Lu; Kai Yuan; Kai Yuan; Kai Yuan

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01605

Frontiers in Psychology (Sep 2017)

Decreased Global Network Efficiency in Young Male Smoker: An EEG Study during the Resting State

Shaoping Su,
Dahua Yu,
Jiadong Cheng,
Jiadong Cheng,
Yajing Chen,
Xiaohua Zhang,
Yanyan Guan,
Yanyan Guan,
Yangding Li,
Yanzhi Bi,
Yanzhi Bi,
Ting Xue,
Xiaoqi Lu,
Kai Yuan,
Kai Yuan,
Kai Yuan

Affiliations

Shaoping Su: Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Image Processing, School of Information Engineering, Inner Mongolia University of Science and TechnologyBaotou, China
Dahua Yu: Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Image Processing, School of Information Engineering, Inner Mongolia University of Science and TechnologyBaotou, China
Jiadong Cheng: School of Life Science and Technology, Xidian UniversityXi'an, China
Jiadong Cheng: Engineering Research Center of Molecular and Neuro Imaging, Ministry of EducationXi'an, China
Yajing Chen: Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Image Processing, School of Information Engineering, Inner Mongolia University of Science and TechnologyBaotou, China
Xiaohua Zhang: Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Image Processing, School of Information Engineering, Inner Mongolia University of Science and TechnologyBaotou, China
Yanyan Guan: School of Life Science and Technology, Xidian UniversityXi'an, China
Yanyan Guan: Engineering Research Center of Molecular and Neuro Imaging, Ministry of EducationXi'an, China
Yangding Li: Guangxi Key Laboratory of Multi-source Information Mining and Security, Guangxi Normal UniversityGuilin, China
Yanzhi Bi: School of Life Science and Technology, Xidian UniversityXi'an, China
Yanzhi Bi: Engineering Research Center of Molecular and Neuro Imaging, Ministry of EducationXi'an, China
Ting Xue: Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Image Processing, School of Information Engineering, Inner Mongolia University of Science and TechnologyBaotou, China
Xiaoqi Lu: Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Image Processing, School of Information Engineering, Inner Mongolia University of Science and TechnologyBaotou, China
Kai Yuan: Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Image Processing, School of Information Engineering, Inner Mongolia University of Science and TechnologyBaotou, China
Kai Yuan: School of Life Science and Technology, Xidian UniversityXi'an, China
Kai Yuan: Engineering Research Center of Molecular and Neuro Imaging, Ministry of EducationXi'an, China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01605
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 8

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Previous electroencephalogram (EEG) studies revealed reduced spectral power during the resting state in smokers. However, few studies investigated the changes of global brain networks during the resting state in young smokers by EEG. In the present study, we used minimum spanning tree (MST) to assess the differences of global network efficiency between young smoker (n = 20) and nonsmokers (n = 20). Compared with healthy nonsmokers, young smokers showed decreased leaf fraction, kappa value, increased diameter and eccentricity value in alpha band (r = 0.574, p = 0.008), which suggested the global network efficiency was decreased in young smokers. We also found positive correlation between leaf fraction and onset time of smoking in smokers. These results provided more scientific evidence of the abnormal neural oscillations of young smokers and improved our understanding of smoking addiction.

Published in Frontiers in Psychology

ISSN: 1664-1078 (Online)
Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.
Country of publisher: Switzerland
LCC subjects: Philosophy. Psychology. Religion: Psychology
Website: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology

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