Connectivity Analysis of Quantitative Electroencephalogram Background Activity in Autism Disorders with Short Time Fourier Transform and Coherence Values

Electroencephalography (EEG) is widely used in clinical settings to investigate neurophysiology. Since EEG signals contain a wealth of information about brain functions, there are many approaches in analyzing EEG signals with spectral techniques. We have used short time Fourier transform (STFT) at 19 channels of EEG for 10 Autism disorders (6-11 years old) and 7 age matched control subjects. The values were assessed with variance analysis. Results are shown that beta band (14-34Hz) has 82.4% discriminate between two groups. Coherence values at between 112 pairs of 19 channels EEG are shown there are abnormalities connectivity in parietal lobe and temporal lobe and connectivity between these lobes and central lobe.