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However, the presence of psychopharmacological treatment in study participants poses a potential confounding factor in biomarker research. To address this concern, our study aims to explore the impact of both single and multi-class psychotropic treatments on aforementioned rsEEG characteristics in a psychiatric population.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      RsEEG was analyzed in a real-world cross-sectional sample of 900 hospital-admitted psychiatric patients. Patients were clustered into eight psychopharmacological groups: unmedicated, single-class treatment with antipsychotics (AP), antidepressants (AD) or benzodiazepines (BDZ), and multi-class combinations of these treatments. To assess the associations between psychotropic treatments and the macroscale rsEEG characteristics mentioned above, we employed a general linear model with\n                      <jats:italic>post-hoc<\/jats:italic>\n                      tests. Additionally, Spearman\u2019s rank correlation analyses were performed to explore potential dosage effects.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Compared to unmedicated patients, single-class use of AD was associated with lower functional connectivity in the delta band, while AP was associated with lower functional connectivity in both the delta and alpha bands. Single-class use of BDZ was associated with widespread rsEEG differences, including lower functional connectivity across frequency bands and a different network topology within the beta band relative to unmedicated patients. All of the multi-class groups showed associations with functional connectivity or topology measures, but effects were most pronounced for concomitant use of all three classes of psychotropics. Differences were not only observed in comparison with unmedicated patients, but were also evident in comparisons between single-class, multi-class, and single\/multi-class groups. Importantly, multi-class associations with rsEEG characteristics were found even in the absence of single-class associations, suggesting potential cumulative or interaction effects of different classes of psychotropics. Dosage correlations were only found for antipsychotics.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Our exploratory, cross-sectional study suggests small but significant associations between single and multi-class use of antidepressants, antipsychotics and benzodiazepines and macroscale rsEEG functional connectivity and network topology characteristics. These findings highlight the importance of considering the effects of specific psychotropics, as well as their interactions, when investigating rsEEG biomarkers in a medicated psychiatric population.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fnins.2023.1176825","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,9,18]],"date-time":"2023-09-18T01:49:44Z","timestamp":1695001784000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":11,"title":["Associations between psychotropic drugs and rsEEG connectivity and network characteristics: a cross-sectional study in hospital-admitted psychiatric patients"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"17","author":[{"given":"Melissa G.","family":"Zandstra","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Hannah","family":"Meijs","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Metten","family":"Somers","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Cornelis J.","family":"Stam","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Bieke","family":"de Wilde","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jan","family":"van Hecke","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Peter","family":"Niemegeers","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jurjen J.","family":"Luykx","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Edwin","family":"van Dellen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,9,15]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref1","first-page":"1","article-title":"Assessment of the pharmacological effects of alprazolam on electroencephalography using connectivity indexes not affected by volume conduction","author":"Alonso L\u00f3pez","year":"2015"},{"key":"ref2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"487","DOI":"10.1002\/hbm.20881","article-title":"Drug effect on EEG connectivity assessed by linear and nonlinear couplings","volume":"31","author":"Alonso","year":"2010","journal-title":"Hum. 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