Causal relationship between local field potential and intrinsic optical signal in epileptiform activity in vitro

Benkő, Zsigmond and Moldován, Kinga and Szádeczky-Kardoss, Katalin and Zalányi, László and Borbély, Sándor and Világi, Ildikó and Somogyvári, Zoltán (2019) Causal relationship between local field potential and intrinsic optical signal in epileptiform activity in vitro. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 9 (1). p. 5171. ISSN 2045-2322

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Abstract

The directed causal relationship were examined between the local field potential (LFP) and the intrinsic optical signal (IOS) during induced epileptiform activity in in vitro cortical slices by the convergent cross-mapping causality analysis method. Two components of the IOS signal have been distinguished: a faster, activity dependent component (IOSh) which changes its sign between transmitted and reflected measurement, thus it is related to the reflectance or the scattering of the tissue and a slower component (IOSl), which is negative in both cases, thus it is resulted by the increase of the absorption of the tissue. We have found a strong, unidirectional, delayed causal effect from LFP to IOSh with 0.5- 1s delay, without signs of feedback from the IOSh to the LFP, while the correlation was small and the peaks of the cross correlation function did not reflect the actual causal dependency. Based on these observations, a model has been set up to describe the dependency of the IOSh on the LFP power and IOSh was reconstructed, based on the LFP signal. This study demonstrates that causality analysis can lead to better understanding the physiological interactions, even in case of two data series with drastically different time scales.

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