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Transcranial direct current stimulation treatment protocols: should stimulus intensity be constant or incremental over multiple sessions? Int J Neuropsychopharmacol 2013; 16:13-21. [PMID: 22310245 DOI: 10.1017/s1461145712000041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Interest in transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) as a new tool in neuropsychiatry has led to the need to establish optimal treatment protocols. In an intra-individual randomized cross-over design, 11 healthy volunteers received five tDCS sessions to the left primary motor cortex on consecutive weekdays at a constant or gradually increasing current intensity, in two separate weeks of testing. Cortical excitability was assessed before and after tDCS at each session through peripheral electromyographic recordings of motor-evoked potentials. Both conditions led to significant cumulative increases in cortical excitability across the week but there were no significant differences between the two groups. Motor thresholds decreased significantly from Monday to Friday in both conditions. This study demonstrated that, in the motor cortex, administration of tDCS five times per week whether at a constant intensity or at a gradually increasing intensity was equally effective in increasing cortical excitability.
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Cengiz B, Murase N, Rothwell JC. Opposite effects of weak transcranial direct current stimulation on different phases of short interval intracortical inhibition (SICI). Exp Brain Res 2013; 225:321-31. [DOI: 10.1007/s00221-012-3369-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2012] [Accepted: 12/05/2012] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Ziemann U. Pharmaco-transcranial magnetic stimulation studies of motor excitability. HANDBOOK OF CLINICAL NEUROLOGY 2013; 116:387-397. [PMID: 24112911 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-444-53497-2.00032-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Application of a single dose of a central nervous system (CNS) active drug with a defined single mode of action has been proven useful to explore and characterize the pharmacophysiological properties of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) measures of motor cortical and corticospinal excitability in humans. With this pharmaco-TMS approach, it was demonstrated that different TMS measures reflect axon excitability (motor threshold), or inhibitory (cortical silent period, short-interval intracortical inhibition, long-interval intracortical inhibition, short-latency afferent inhibition) or excitatory synaptic excitability (motor evoked potential amplitude, intracortical facilitation, short-interval intracortical facilitation) of distinct neuronal elements in the CNS. Pharmaco-TMS has opened an exciting window into human cortical physiology. The array of pharmacophysiologically well defined TMS measures is now used by neurologists, psychiatrists, and clinical neurophysiologists for diagnosis or treatment monitoring in neuropsychiatric disease. This chapter reviews systematically the TMS measures of motor cortical and corticospinal excitability from the perspective of pharmacophysiological characterization. For example, it is demonstrated that blockers of voltage-gated sodium channels specifically increase motor threshold but do not alter other TMS measures of excitability, whereas positive modulators at γ-butyric acid (GABA) type A receptors, such as benzodiazepines, enhance short-interval intracortical inhibition and depress motor evoked potential amplitude but have no effect on motor threshold.
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- Ulf Ziemann
- Department of Neurology and Stroke, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, Eberhard-Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
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By incorporating the known physiology of the spinal cord epidural activity evoked by single-pulse, paired-pulse, and repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) with the anatomical and computational characteristics of the canonical model of the cerebral cortex circuit, and composed of layer II and III and layer V excitatory pyramidal cells, inhibitory interneurons, corticocortical and thalamocortical inputs, the characteristics and nature of the corticospinal activity evoked by TMS including its regular and rhythmic nature, the dose dependence, and pharmacological modulation of the discharge might be explained elegantly. TMS inducing strong depolarization of the superficial excitatory cells of the circuit may lead to the recruitment of fully synchronized clusters of excitatory neurons, including layer V pyramidal tract neurons (PTNs), and inhibitory neurons producing a high-frequency (~670Hz) repetitive discharge of the corticospinal axons. The role of the inhibitory circuits is crucial to entrain the firing of the excitatory networks to produce a high-frequency discharge. The integrative properties of the circuit might also provide a good framework for interpretation of the changes in corticospinal activity produced by paired and repetitive TMS. The changes can be produced presynaptically to PTN cells or at the level of these cells, depending mainly on the intensity of magnetic stimuli.
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Spinal Cord Injury: Harnessing Spike Timing to Induce Plastic Change. Curr Biol 2012; 22:R1039-40. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.11.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Knikou M. Neurophysiological characteristics of human leg muscle action potentials evoked by transcutaneous magnetic stimulation of the spine. Bioelectromagnetics 2012. [PMID: 23192827 DOI: 10.1002/bem.21768] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The objectives of this study were to establish the neurophysiological properties of the compound muscle action potentials (CMAPs) evoked by transcutaneous magnetic stimulation of the spine (tsMSS) and the effects of tsMSS on the soleus H-reflex. In semi-prone seated subjects with trunk semi-flexed, the epicenter of a figure-of-eight magnetic coil was placed at Thoracic 10 with the handle on the midline of the vertebral column. The magnetic stimulator was triggered by monophasic single pulses of 1 ms, and the intensity ranged from 90% to 100% of the stimulator output across subjects. CMAPs were recorded bilaterally from ankle and knee muscles at the interstimulus intervals of 1, 3, 5, 8, and 10 s. The CMAPs evoked were also conditioned by posterior tibial and common peroneal nerve stimulation at a conditioning-test (C-T) interval of 50 ms. The soleus H-reflex was conditioned by tsMSS at the C-T intervals of 50, 20, -20, and -50 ms. The amplitude of the CMAPs was not decreased when evoked at low stimulation frequencies, excitation of group I afferents from mixed peripheral nerves in the leg affected the CMAPs in a non-somatotopical neural organization pattern, and tsMSS depressed soleus H-reflex excitability. These CMAPs are likely due to orthodromic excitation of nerve motor fibers and antidromic depolarization of different types of afferents. The latency of these CMAPs may be utilized to establish the spine-to-muscle conduction time in central and peripheral nervous system disorders in humans. tsMSS may constitute a non-invasive modality to decrease spinal reflex hyperexcitability and treat hypertonia in neurological disorders.
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- Maria Knikou
- Department of Physical Therapy, College of Staten Island, Staten Island, New York 10314, USA.
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I-wave origin and modulation. Brain Stimul 2012; 5:512-25. [DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2011.07.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 219] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2011] [Revised: 07/15/2011] [Accepted: 07/21/2011] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Lu MK, Tsai CH, Ziemann U. Cerebellum to motor cortex paired associative stimulation induces bidirectional STDP-like plasticity in human motor cortex. Front Hum Neurosci 2012; 6:260. [PMID: 23049508 PMCID: PMC3446544 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00260] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2012] [Accepted: 08/31/2012] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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The cerebellum is crucially important for motor control and adaptation. Recent non-invasive brain stimulation studies have indicated the possibility to alter the excitability of the cerebellum and its projections to the contralateral motor cortex, with behavioral consequences on motor control and adaptation. Here we sought to induce bidirectional spike-timing dependent plasticity (STDP)-like modifications of motor cortex (M1) excitability by application of paired associative stimulation (PAS) in healthy subjects. Conditioning stimulation over the right lateral cerebellum (CB) preceded focal transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) of the left M1 hand area at an interstimulus interval of 2 ms (CB→M1 PAS2 ms), 6 ms (CB→M1 PAS6 ms) or 10 ms (CB→M1 PAS10 ms) or randomly alternating intervals of 2 and 10 ms (CB→M1 PASControl). Effects of PAS on M1 excitability were assessed by the motor-evoked potential (MEP) amplitude, short-interval intracortical inhibition (SICI), intracortical facilitation (ICF) and cerebellar-motor cortex inhibition (CBI) in the first dorsal interosseous muscle of the right hand. CB→M1 PAS2 ms resulted in MEP potentiation, CB→M1 PAS6 ms and CB→M1 PAS10 ms in MEP depression, and CB→M1 PASControl in no change. The MEP changes lasted for 30–60 min after PAS. SICI and CBI decreased non-specifically after all PAS protocols, while ICF remained unaltered. The physiological mechanisms underlying these MEP changes are carefully discussed. Findings support the notion of bidirectional STDP-like plasticity in M1 mediated by associative stimulation of the cerebello-dentato-thalamo-cortical pathway and M1. Future studies may investigate the behavioral significance of this plasticity.
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- Ming-Kuei Lu
- Department of Neurology, Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main, Germany ; Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Neurology, China Medical University Hospital Taichung, Taiwan ; Institute of Medical Science and School of Medicine, China Medical University Taichung, Taiwan
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Murakami T, Restle J, Ziemann U. Effective connectivity hierarchically links temporoparietal and frontal areas of the auditory dorsal stream with the motor cortex lip area during speech perception. BRAIN AND LANGUAGE 2012; 122:135-141. [PMID: 22030113 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2011.09.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2011] [Revised: 09/20/2011] [Accepted: 09/20/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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A left-hemispheric cortico-cortical network involving areas of the temporoparietal junction (Tpj) and the posterior inferior frontal gyrus (pIFG) is thought to support sensorimotor integration of speech perception into articulatory motor activation, but how this network links with the lip area of the primary motor cortex (M1) during speech perception is unclear. Using paired-coil focal transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) in healthy subjects, we demonstrate that Tpj→M1 and pIFG→M1 effective connectivity increased when listening to speech compared to white noise. A virtual lesion induced by continuous theta-burst TMS (cTBS) of the pIFG abolished the task-dependent increase in pIFG→M1 but not Tpj→M1 effective connectivity during speech perception, whereas cTBS of Tpj abolished the task-dependent increase of both effective connectivities. We conclude that speech perception enhances effective connectivity between areas of the auditory dorsal stream and M1. Tpj is situated at a hierarchically high level, integrating speech perception into motor activation through the pIFG.
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- Takenobu Murakami
- Department of Neurology, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Murakami T, Müller-Dahlhaus F, Lu MK, Ziemann U. Homeostatic metaplasticity of corticospinal excitatory and intracortical inhibitory neural circuits in human motor cortex. J Physiol 2012; 590:5765-81. [PMID: 22930265 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2012.238519] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Homeostatic metaplasticity, a fundamental principle for maintaining overall synaptic weight in the physiological range in neuronal networks, was demonstrated at the cellular and systems level predominantly for excitatory synaptic neurotransmission. Although inhibitory networks are crucial for regulating excitability, it is largely unknown to what extent homeostatic metaplasticity of inhibition also exists. Here, we employed intermittent and continuous transcranial magnetic theta burst stimulation (iTBS, cTBS) of the primary motor cortex in healthy subjects for induction of long-term potentiation (LTP)-like and long-term depression (LTD)-like plasticity. We studied metaplasticity by testing the interactions of priming TBS with LTP/LTD-like plasticity induced by subsequent test TBS. Changes in excitatory neurotransmission were measured by the input-output curve of motor-evoked potentials (IO-MEP), and changes in GABA(A)ergic inhibitory neurotransmission by the IO of short-interval intracortical inhibition (IO-SICI, four conditioning stimulus intensities of 70-100% active motor threshold, interstimulus interval 2.0 ms). Non-primed iTBS increased IO-MEP, while non-primed cTBS decreased IO-MEP. Pairing of identical protocols (iTBSiTBS, cTBScTBS) resulted in suppression of the non-primed TBS effects on IO-MEP, and pairing of different protocols (cTBSiTBS, iTBScTBS) enhanced the test TBS effects on IO-MEP. While non-primed TBS did not result in significant changes of IO-SICI, iTBSiTBS resulted in IO-SICI decrease, and cTBScTBS in IO-SICI increase compared with the non-primed conditions. The changes in SICI induced by priming TBS correlated with the changes in MEP induced by subsequent test TBS. Findings demonstrate that plasticity in both excitatory and inhibitory circuits in the human motor cortex are regulated by homeostatic metaplasticity, and that priming effects on inhibition contribute to the homeostatic regulation of metaplasticity in excitatory circuits.
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- Takenobu Murakami
- Department of Neurology, Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Pilato F, Profice P, Ranieri F, Capone F, Di Iorio R, Florio L, Di Lazzaro V. Synaptic plasticity in neurodegenerative diseases evaluated and modulated by in vivo neurophysiological techniques. Mol Neurobiol 2012; 46:563-71. [PMID: 22821187 DOI: 10.1007/s12035-012-8302-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2012] [Accepted: 07/09/2012] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Several studies demonstrated in experimental models and in humans synaptic plasticity impairment in some neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric diseases such as Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease, and schizophrenia. Recently new neurophysiological tools, such as repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation and transcranial direct current stimulation, have been introduced in experimental and clinical settings for studying physiology of the brain and modulating cortical activity. These techniques use noninvasive transcranial electrical or magnetic stimulation to modulate neurons activity in the human brain. Cortical stimulation might enhance or inhibit the activity of cortico-subcortical networks, depending on stimulus frequency and intensity, current polarity, and other stimulation parameters such as the configuration of the induced electric field and stimulation protocols. On this basis, in the last two decades, these techniques have rapidly become valuable tools to investigate physiology of the human brain and have been applied to treat drug-resistant neurological and psychiatric diseases. Here we describe these techniques and discuss the mechanisms that may explain these effects.
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- F Pilato
- Department of Neurosciences, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Largo A. Gemelli 8, 00168 Rome, Italy.
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Kriváneková L, Baudrexel S, Bliem B, Ziemann U. Relation of brain stimulation induced changes in MEP amplitude and BOLD signal. Brain Stimul 2012; 6:330-9. [PMID: 22770886 DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2012.06.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2011] [Revised: 04/17/2012] [Accepted: 06/12/2012] [Indexed: 10/28/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Non-invasive human brain stimulation can induce long-term plasticity reflected by changes in putative markers of synaptic activation, such as the motor evoked potential (MEP) amplitude elicited by transcranial magnetic stimulation or the task-dependent blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) signal measured by functional magnetic resonance imaging. OBJECTIVE To study the relationship between brain stimulation induced changes in MEP amplitude and BOLD signal. METHODS Paired associative stimulation of the hand area of the left primary somatosensory cortex (S1-PAS) was applied in 15 healthy subjects to induce excitability change in the adjacent primary motor cortex (M1) [Kriváneková et al. 2011, Eur J Neurosci 34:1292-1300]. Before and after S1-PAS, MEP amplitude in a right hand muscle, and the BOLD signal during a right hand motor or somatosensory activation task were measured. RESULTS S1-PAS resulted in substantial individual MEP and BOLD signal changes, but these changes did not correlate in M1 or S1. CONCLUSIONS Findings indicate that MEP amplitude and BOLD signal within the tested M1 reflect physiologically distinct aspects of synaptic excitability change. Therefore, it is suggested that MEP amplitude and BOLD signal are complementary rather than interchangeable markers of synaptic excitability.
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- Lucia Kriváneková
- Department of Neurology, Goethe University of Frankfurt, Schleusenweg 2-16, D-60528 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Hübers A, Klein JC, Kang JS, Hilker R, Ziemann U. The relationship between TMS measures of functional properties and DTI measures of microstructure of the corticospinal tract. Brain Stimul 2012; 5:297-304. [DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2011.03.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2010] [Revised: 03/21/2011] [Accepted: 03/26/2011] [Indexed: 10/18/2022] Open
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Delvendahl I, Lindemann H, Heidegger T, Normann C, Ziemann U, Mall V. Effects of lamotrigine on human motor cortex plasticity. Clin Neurophysiol 2012; 124:148-53. [PMID: 22750085 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2012.05.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2012] [Revised: 05/08/2012] [Accepted: 05/16/2012] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Besides its use in epilepsy, lamotrigine (LTG) is also effective as mood stabilizer. The pathophysiology of mood disorders may incorporate a dysfunction of neuronal plasticity and animal experiments suggest that mood stabilizers influence induction of long-term potentiation (LTP) and -depression (LTD), two major forms of synaptic plasticity. However, the exact modes of action of LTG and its impact on neuronal plasticity in humans remain unclear. METHODS Here, we tested the effects of a single oral dose of LTG (300 mg) on motor cortical plasticity induced by paired associative stimulation (PAS(25)), a protocol that typically induces LTP-like plasticity, in 26 young healthy adults in a placebo-controlled, randomized, double-blind crossover design. We stratified analysis of the LTG effects according to the individual PAS(25) response in the placebo session (14 LTP-responders vs. 12 LTD-responders). Plasticity was indexed by motor evoked potential (MEP) amplitudes recorded before and for 60 min after PAS(25). RESULTS LTG resulted in a significant reduction of the LTP-like MEP increase in the LTP-responders and a reduction of the LTD-like MEP decrease in the LTD-responders, with the majority of LTD-responders even showing an MEP increase. CONCLUSIONS In summary, LTG differentially modulated cortical plasticity induced by non-invasive brain stimulation in human subjects depending on their individual intrinsic propensity for expressing LTP-like or LTD-like plasticity. SIGNIFICANCE Findings contribute to our understanding of the anticonvulsant and antidepressant clinical effects of LTG, which have been suggested to occur, at least in part, through downregulation of LTP (epilepsy) and LTD (depressive disorders).
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- Igor Delvendahl
- European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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Plasticity of corticospinal neural control after locomotor training in human spinal cord injury. Neural Plast 2012; 2012:254948. [PMID: 22701805 PMCID: PMC3373155 DOI: 10.1155/2012/254948] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2012] [Revised: 04/09/2012] [Accepted: 04/10/2012] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Spinal lesions substantially impair ambulation, occur generally in young and otherwise healthy individuals, and result in devastating effects on quality of life. Restoration of locomotion after damage to the spinal cord is challenging because axons of the damaged neurons do not regenerate spontaneously. Body-weight-supported treadmill training (BWSTT) is a therapeutic approach in which a person with a spinal cord injury (SCI) steps on a motorized treadmill while some body weight is removed through an upper body harness. BWSTT improves temporal gait parameters, muscle activation patterns, and clinical outcome measures in persons with SCI. These changes are likely the result of reorganization that occurs simultaneously in supraspinal and spinal cord neural circuits. This paper will focus on the cortical control of human locomotion and motor output, spinal reflex circuits, and spinal interneuronal circuits and how corticospinal control is reorganized after locomotor training in people with SCI. Based on neurophysiological studies, it is apparent that corticospinal plasticity is involved in restoration of locomotion after training. However, the neural mechanisms underlying restoration of lost voluntary motor function are not well understood and translational neuroscience research is needed so patient-orientated rehabilitation protocols to be developed.
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Niazi IK, Mrachacz-Kersting N, Jiang N, Dremstrup K, Farina D. Peripheral electrical stimulation triggered by self-paced detection of motor intention enhances motor evoked potentials. IEEE Trans Neural Syst Rehabil Eng 2012; 20:595-604. [PMID: 22547461 DOI: 10.1109/tnsre.2012.2194309] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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This paper proposes the development and experimental tests of a self-paced asynchronous brain-computer interfacing (BCI) system that detects movement related cortical potentials (MRCPs) produced during motor imagination of ankle dorsiflexion and triggers peripheral electrical stimulations timed with the occurrence of MRCPs to induce corticospinal plasticity. MRCPs were detected online from EEG signals in eight healthy subjects with a true positive rate (TPR) of 67.15 ± 7.87% and false positive rate (FPR) of 22.05 ±9.07%. The excitability of the cortical projection to the target muscle (tibialis anterior) was assessed before and after the intervention through motor evoked potentials (MEP) using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). The peak of the evoked potential significantly (P=0.02) increased after the BCI intervention by 53 ± 43% (relative to preintervention measure), although the spinal excitability (tested by stretch reflexes) did not change. These results demonstrate for the first time that it is possible to alter the corticospinal projections to the tibialis anterior muscle by using an asynchronous BCI system based on online motor imagination that triggered peripheral stimulation. This type of repetitive proprioceptive feedback training based on self-generated brain signal decoding may be a requirement for purposeful skill acquisition in intact humans and in the rehabilitation of persons with brain damage.
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- Imran Khan Niazi
- Center for Sensory-Motor Interaction, Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark.
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Voytovych H, Kriváneková L, Ziemann U. Lithium: a switch from LTD- to LTP-like plasticity in human cortex. Neuropharmacology 2012; 63:274-9. [PMID: 22507665 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2012.03.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2012] [Revised: 03/05/2012] [Accepted: 03/23/2012] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Lithium, a simple cation, is the mainstay treatment of bipolar disorder. Deficient synaptic plasticity is considered one important mechanism of this disease. Lithium inhibits glycogen synthase kinase-3beta (GSK-3β), which is involved in the regulation of synaptic plasticity. In animal preparations, inhibition of GSK-3β by lithium up-regulated long-term potentiation (LTP) of excitatory synapses but down-regulated long-term depression (LTD). The effects of lithium on plasticity in the human brain are unexplored. We tested the effects of a single oral dose of 900 mg of lithium on LTP-/LTD-like plasticity in human motor cortex induced by established paired associative transcranial magnetic stimulation (PAS(LTP), PAS(LTD)) protocols. We studied 10 healthy adults in a placebo-controlled double-blind randomized crossover design. PAS-induced plasticity was indexed by change in motor evoked potential amplitude recorded in a hand muscle. In the placebo session, subjects were stratified, according to the known variability of the PAS(LTP) response, into PAS(LTP) 'LTP responders' and PAS(LTP) 'LTD responders' (n = 5 each). Lithium did not affect the PAS(LTP)-induced LTP-like plasticity in the 'LTP responders', but switched the PAS(LTP)-induced LTD-like plasticity in the 'LTD responders' to LTP-like plasticity. In contrast, lithium had no effect on the PAS(LTD)-induced LTD-like plasticity in the 'LTD responders'. We provide first-time evidence that lithium significantly modulates brain stimulation induced plasticity in human cortex. The switch from LTD- to LTP-like plasticity is best explained by the inhibitory action of lithium on GSK-3β. This conclusion is necessarily circumstantial because GSK-3β activity was not directly measured. We discuss that other important plasticity-related modes actions of lithium cannot explain our findings.
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- Hanna Voytovych
- Department of Neurology, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Schleusenweg 2-16, D-60528 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Shafi MM, Westover MB, Fox MD, Pascual-Leone A. Exploration and modulation of brain network interactions with noninvasive brain stimulation in combination with neuroimaging. Eur J Neurosci 2012; 35:805-25. [PMID: 22429242 PMCID: PMC3313459 DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2012.08035.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 116] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Much recent work in systems neuroscience has focused on how dynamic interactions between different cortical regions underlie complex brain functions such as motor coordination, language and emotional regulation. Various studies using neuroimaging and neurophysiologic techniques have suggested that in many neuropsychiatric disorders, these dynamic brain networks are dysregulated. Here we review the utility of combined noninvasive brain stimulation and neuroimaging approaches towards greater understanding of dynamic brain networks in health and disease. Brain stimulation techniques, such as transcranial magnetic stimulation and transcranial direct current stimulation, use electromagnetic principles to alter brain activity noninvasively, and induce focal but also network effects beyond the stimulation site. When combined with brain imaging techniques such as functional magnetic resonance imaging, positron emission tomography and electroencephalography, these brain stimulation techniques enable a causal assessment of the interaction between different network components, and their respective functional roles. The same techniques can also be applied to explore hypotheses regarding the changes in functional connectivity that occur during task performance and in various disease states such as stroke, depression and schizophrenia. Finally, in diseases characterized by pathologic alterations in either the excitability within a single region or in the activity of distributed networks, such techniques provide a potential mechanism to alter cortical network function and architectures in a beneficial manner.
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- Mouhsin M. Shafi
- Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation, Division of Cognitive Neurology, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation, Division of Cognitive Neurology, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation, Division of Cognitive Neurology, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation, Division of Cognitive Neurology, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Institut Universitari de Neurorehabilitació Guttmann, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Badalona, Spain
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Delvendahl I, Jung NH, Kuhnke NG, Ziemann U, Mall V. Plasticity of motor threshold and motor-evoked potential amplitude--a model of intrinsic and synaptic plasticity in human motor cortex? Brain Stimul 2012; 5:586-93. [PMID: 22445536 DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2011.11.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2011] [Revised: 11/21/2011] [Accepted: 11/22/2011] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Neuronal plasticity is the physiological correlate of learning and memory. In animal experiments, synaptic (i.e. long-term potentiation (LTP) and depression (LTD)) and intrinsic plasticity are distinguished. In human motor cortex, cortical plasticity can be demonstrated using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). Changes in motor-evoked potential (MEP) amplitudes most likely represent synaptic plasticity and are thus termed LTP-like and LTD-like plasticity. OBJECTIVE/HYPOTHESIS We investigated the role of changes of motor threshold and their relation to changes of MEP amplitudes. METHODS We induced plasticity by paired associative stimulation (PAS) with 25 ms or 10 ms inter-stimulus interval or by motor practice (MP) in 64 healthy subjects aged 18-31 years (median 24.0). RESULTS We observed changes of MEP amplitudes and motor threshold after PAS[25], PAS[10] and MP. In all three protocols, long-term individual changes in MEP amplitude were inversely correlated to changes in motor threshold (PAS[25]: P = .003, n = 36; PAS[10]: P = .038, n = 19; MP: P = .041, n = 19). CONCLUSION We conclude that changes of MEP amplitudes and MT represent two indices of motor cortex plasticity. Whereas increases and decreases in MEP amplitude are assumed to represent LTP-like or LTD-like synaptic plasticity of motor cortex output neurons, changes of MT may be considered as a correlate of intrinsic plasticity.
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- Igor Delvendahl
- Division of Neuropaediatrics and Muscular Disorders, Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, University Medical Centre, Freiburg, Germany
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Groppa S, Oliviero A, Eisen A, Quartarone A, Cohen LG, Mall V, Kaelin-Lang A, Mima T, Rossi S, Thickbroom GW, Rossini PM, Ziemann U, Valls-Solé J, Siebner HR. A practical guide to diagnostic transcranial magnetic stimulation: report of an IFCN committee. Clin Neurophysiol 2012; 123:858-82. [PMID: 22349304 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2012.01.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 787] [Impact Index Per Article: 65.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2011] [Revised: 01/16/2012] [Accepted: 01/22/2012] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is an established neurophysiological tool to examine the integrity of the fast-conducting corticomotor pathways in a wide range of diseases associated with motor dysfunction. This includes but is not limited to patients with multiple sclerosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, stroke, movement disorders, disorders affecting the spinal cord, facial and other cranial nerves. These guidelines cover practical aspects of TMS in a clinical setting. We first discuss the technical and physiological aspects of TMS that are relevant for the diagnostic use of TMS. We then lay out the general principles that apply to a standardized clinical examination of the fast-conducting corticomotor pathways with single-pulse TMS. This is followed by a detailed description of how to examine corticomotor conduction to the hand, leg, trunk and facial muscles in patients. Additional sections cover safety issues, the triple stimulation technique, and neuropediatric aspects of TMS.
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- S Groppa
- Department of Neurology, Christian Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany
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State-dependent and timing-dependent bidirectional associative plasticity in the human SMA-M1 network. J Neurosci 2011; 31:15376-83. [PMID: 22031883 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.2271-11.2011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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The supplementary motor area (SMA-proper) plays a key role in the preparation and execution of voluntary movements. Anatomically, SMA-proper is densely reciprocally connected to primary motor cortex (M1), but neuronal coordination within the SMA-M1 network and its modification by external perturbation are not well understood. Here we modulated the SMA-M1 network using MR-navigated multicoil associative transcranial magnetic stimulation in healthy subjects. Changes in corticospinal excitability were assessed by recording motor evoked potential (MEP) amplitude bilaterally in a hand muscle. We found timing-dependent bidirectional Hebbian-like MEP changes during and for at least 30 min after paired associative SMA-M1 stimulation. MEP amplitude increased if SMA stimulation preceded M1 stimulation by 6 ms, but decreased if SMA stimulation lagged M1 stimulation by 15 ms. This associative plasticity in the SMA-M1 network was highly topographically specific because paired associative stimulation of pre-SMA and M1 did not result in any significant MEP change. Furthermore, associative plasticity in the SMA-M1 network was strongly state-dependent because it required priming by near-simultaneous M1 stimulation to occur. We conclude that timing-dependent bidirectional associative plasticity is demonstrated for the first time at the systems level of a human corticocortical neuronal network. The properties of this form of plasticity are fully compatible with spike-timing-dependent plasticity as defined at the cellular level. The necessity of priming may reflect the strong interhemispheric connectivity of the SMA-M1 network. Findings are relevant for better understanding reorganization and potentially therapeutic modification of neuronal coordination in the SMA-M1 network after cerebral lesions such as stroke.
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Lefaucheur JP, André-Obadia N, Poulet E, Devanne H, Haffen E, Londero A, Cretin B, Leroi AM, Radtchenko A, Saba G, Thai-Van H, Litré CF, Vercueil L, Bouhassira D, Ayache SS, Farhat WH, Zouari HG, Mylius V, Nicolier M, Garcia-Larrea L. [French guidelines on the use of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS): safety and therapeutic indications]. Neurophysiol Clin 2011; 41:221-95. [PMID: 22153574 DOI: 10.1016/j.neucli.2011.10.062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2011] [Accepted: 10/18/2011] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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During the past decade, a large amount of work on transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) has been performed, including the development of new paradigms of stimulation, the integration of imaging data, and the coupling of TMS techniques with electroencephalography or neuroimaging. These accumulating data being difficult to synthesize, several French scientific societies commissioned a group of experts to conduct a comprehensive review of the literature on TMS. This text contains all the consensual findings of the expert group on the mechanisms of action, safety rules and indications of TMS, including repetitive TMS (rTMS). TMS sessions have been conducted in thousands of healthy subjects or patients with various neurological or psychiatric diseases, allowing a better assessment of risks associated with this technique. The number of reported side effects is extremely low, the most serious complication being the occurrence of seizures. In most reported seizures, the stimulation parameters did not follow the previously published recommendations (Wassermann, 1998) [430] and rTMS was associated to medication that could lower the seizure threshold. Recommendations on the safe use of TMS / rTMS were recently updated (Rossi et al., 2009) [348], establishing new limits for stimulation parameters and fixing the contraindications. The recommendations we propose regarding safety are largely based on this previous report with some modifications. By contrast, the issue of therapeutic indications of rTMS has never been addressed before, the present work being the first attempt of a synthesis and expert consensus on this topic. The use of TMS/rTMS is discussed in the context of chronic pain, movement disorders, stroke, epilepsy, tinnitus and psychiatric disorders. There is already a sufficient level of evidence of published data to retain a therapeutic indication of rTMS in clinical practice (grade A) in chronic neuropathic pain, major depressive episodes, and auditory hallucinations. The number of therapeutic indications of rTMS is expected to increase in coming years, in parallel with the optimisation of stimulation parameters.
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- J-P Lefaucheur
- EA 4391, faculté de médecine, université Paris-Est-Créteil, 51, avenue du Maréchal-de-Lattre-de-Tassigny, 94010 Créteil, France
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Berger U, Korngreen A, Bar-Gad I, Friedman A, Wolfus S, Yeshurun Y, Lavidor M. Magnetic stimulation intensity modulates motor inhibition. Neurosci Lett 2011; 504:93-97. [PMID: 21939737 DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2011.09.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2011] [Revised: 09/03/2011] [Accepted: 09/06/2011] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is a standard tool in neuroscience research and therapy. Here we study one rTMS property that has not received adequate attention, the interaction of subthreshold intensity stimulation and low frequencies. We applied 1Hz rTMS over the motor cortex at three intensities, 40%, 80% and 100% of the resting motor threshold (rMT), and measured cortical excitability before and after the stimulation sessions. When comparing motor evoked potential (MEP) measured from the abductor pollicis brevis (APB) muscle before and after rTMS stimulation, we found that low intensity (40% MT) stimulation significantly decreased MEP magnitude, some smaller (non-significant) inhibition was found for the 80% MT intensity and increased MEP was found for the high intensity (100% MT) stimulation. Our results indicate that when explaining the input-output relationship of motor cortex induced activation as an intensity-dependent function, there might be a need to split it into separate functions associated with separate processes mediated by different cell types such as interneurons, pyramidal neurons and others.
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- U Berger
- Department of Psychology, Bar Ilan University, Israel
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- The Gonda Brain Sciences Center, Bar Ilan University, Israel; Goodam Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Israel
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- The Gonda Brain Sciences Center, Bar Ilan University, Israel; Goodam Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Israel
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- Department of Physics, Bar Ilan University, Israel
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- Department of Physics, Bar Ilan University, Israel
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- Department of Physics, Bar Ilan University, Israel
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- Department of Psychology, Bar Ilan University, Israel; The Gonda Brain Sciences Center, Bar Ilan University, Israel; Department of Psychology, University of Hull, Hull, UK.
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Korchounov A, Ziemann U. Neuromodulatory neurotransmitters influence LTP-like plasticity in human cortex: a pharmaco-TMS study. Neuropsychopharmacology 2011; 36:1894-902. [PMID: 21544070 PMCID: PMC3154108 DOI: 10.1038/npp.2011.75] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Long-term potentiation (LTP) of synaptic efficacy is considered a fundamental mechanism of learning and memory. At the cellular level a large body of evidence demonstrated that the major neuromodulatory neurotransmitters dopamine (DA), norepinephrine (NE), and acetylcholine (ACh) influence LTP magnitude. Noninvasive brain stimulation protocols provide the opportunity to study LTP-like plasticity at the systems level of human cortex. Here we applied paired associative stimulation (PAS) to induce LTP-like plasticity in the primary motor cortex of eight healthy subjects. In a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, crossover design, the acute effects of a single oral dose of the neuromodulatory drugs cabergoline (DA agonist), haloperidol (DA antagonist), methylphenidate (indirect NE agonist), prazosine (NE antagonist), tacrine (ACh agonist), and biperiden (ACh antagonist) on PAS-induced LTP-like plasticity were examined. The antagonists haloperidol, prazosine, and biperiden depressed significantly the PAS-induced LTP-like plasticity observed under placebo, whereas the agonists cabergoline, methylphenidate, and tacrine had no effect. Findings demonstrate that antagonists in major neuromodulatory neurotransmitter systems suppress LTP-like plasticity at the systems level of human cortex, in accord with evidence of their modulating action of LTP at the cellular level. This provides further supportive evidence for the known detrimental effects of these drugs on LTP-dependent mechanisms such as learning and memory.
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- Alexei Korchounov
- Department of Neurology, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany,Department of Neurology, Goethe-University, Schleusenweg 2-16, D-60528 Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Tel: +49 69 6301 5739, Fax: +49 69 6301 4498, E-mail:
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Thickbroom GW. A model of the contribution of late I-waves to α-motoneuronal activation: implications for paired-pulse TMS. Brain Stimul 2011; 4:77-83. [DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2010.04.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2009] [Revised: 03/03/2010] [Accepted: 03/09/2010] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Lundbye-Jensen J, Petersen TH, Rothwell JC, Nielsen JB. Interference in ballistic motor learning: specificity and role of sensory error signals. PLoS One 2011; 6:e17451. [PMID: 21408054 PMCID: PMC3052297 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017451] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2010] [Accepted: 02/03/2011] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Humans are capable of learning numerous motor skills, but newly acquired skills may be abolished by subsequent learning. Here we ask what factors determine whether interference occurs in motor learning. We speculated that interference requires competing processes of synaptic plasticity in overlapping circuits and predicted specificity. To test this, subjects learned a ballistic motor task. Interference was observed following subsequent learning of an accuracy-tracking task, but only if the competing task involved the same muscles and movement direction. Interference was not observed from a non-learning task suggesting that interference requires competing learning. Subsequent learning of the competing task 4 h after initial learning did not cause interference suggesting disruption of early motor memory consolidation as one possible mechanism underlying interference. Repeated transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) of corticospinal motor output at intensities below movement threshold did not cause interference, whereas suprathreshold rTMS evoking motor responses and (re)afferent activation did. Finally, the experiments revealed that suprathreshold repetitive electrical stimulation of the agonist (but not antagonist) peripheral nerve caused interference. The present study is, to our knowledge, the first to demonstrate that peripheral nerve stimulation may cause interference. The finding underscores the importance of sensory feedback as error signals in motor learning. We conclude that interference requires competing plasticity in overlapping circuits. Interference is remarkably specific for circuits involved in a specific movement and it may relate to sensory error signals.
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- Jesper Lundbye-Jensen
- Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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George MS. Transcranial magnetic stimulation for the treatment of depression. Expert Rev Neurother 2011; 10:1761-72. [PMID: 20977332 DOI: 10.1586/ern.10.95] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Repeated daily left prefrontal transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) was first proposed as a potential treatment for depression in 1993. Multiple studies from researchers around the world since then have repeatedly demonstrated that TMS has antidepressant effects greater than sham treatment, and that these effects are clinically meaningful. A large industry-sponsored trial, published in 2007, resulted in US FDA approval in October 2008. Most recently, a large NIH-sponsored trial, with a more rigorous sham technique, found that a course of treatment (3-5 weeks) was statistically and clinically significant in reducing depression. However, consistently showing statistically and clinically significant antidepressant effects, and gaining regulatory approval, is merely the beginning for this new treatment. As with any new treatment involving a radically different approach, there are many unanswered questions about TMS, and the field is still rapidly evolving. These unanswered questions include the appropriate scalp location, understanding the mechanisms of action, refining the 'dose' (frequency, train, number of stimuli/day and pattern of delivery), understanding whether and how TMS can be combined with medications or talking/exposure therapy, or both, and how to deliver maintenance TMS. This article summarizes the available clinical information, and discusses key areas where more research is needed. TMS reflects a paradigm shift in treating depression. It is a safe, relatively noninvasive, focal brain stimulation treatment that does not involve seizures or implanted wires, and does not have drug-drug interactions or systemic side effects.
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- Mark S George
- Institute of Psychiatry, Medical University of South Carolina, 502 N, 67 President St, Charleston, SC 29425, USA.
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Cash R, Ziemann U, Thickbroom GW. Inhibitory and Disinhibitory Effects on I-Wave Facilitation in Motor Cortex. J Neurophysiol 2011; 105:100-6. [DOI: 10.1152/jn.00650.2010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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A suprathreshold pulse of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) delivered to human motor cortex results in a period of long-interval intracortical inhibition (LICI) followed by a briefer period of disinhibition (late cortical disinhibition [LCD]). Short-interval intracortical facilitation (SICF) is mediated by excitatory networks in the motor cortex responsible for the generation of the indirect (I-) wave volleys that are evoked by TMS at a periodicity of about 1.5 ms. Because the excitatory synaptic network responsible for SICF undergoes inhibitory regulation, we hypothesized that SICF will be modulated during periods of inhibition and disinhibition. In particular we were interested to know whether SICF was up-regulated during disinhibition, implying an increase in excitatory synaptic efficacy. We measured SICF, at a paired-pulse interval of 1.5 ms, at various times (100–300 ms) after a suprathreshold priming stimulus (PS) of sufficient strength to evoke LICI and LCD. We found that the strength of SICF was normal during LICI, but was increased during LCD by an average of 64%. SICF onset latency was reduced by one I-wave interval during LCD and was delayed by one I-wave interval during LICI. We conclude that disinhibition, rather than inhibition, modulates the excitatory neuronal networks that underlie SICF, whereas the I-wave targeted is modified by the presence of both inhibition and disinhibition and that there is therefore a dissociation between the strength and site of SICF interaction. The increase in SICF during disinhibition further indicates that this is a promising period to investigate or modulate excitatory synaptic networks while they are less constrained by ongoing levels of inhibition.
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- R.F.H. Cash
- Centre for Neuromuscular and Neurological Disorders, University of Western Australia, Crawley WA, Perth, Australia; and
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- Department of Neurology, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Centre for Neuromuscular and Neurological Disorders, University of Western Australia, Crawley WA, Perth, Australia; and
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Determining which mechanisms lead to activation in the motor cortex: a modeling study of transcranial magnetic stimulation using realistic stimulus waveforms and sulcal geometry. Clin Neurophysiol 2010; 122:748-58. [PMID: 21035390 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2010.09.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 110] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2009] [Revised: 09/21/2010] [Accepted: 09/24/2010] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To determine which mechanisms lead to activation of neurons in the motor cortex during transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) with different current directions and pulse waveforms. METHODS The total electric field induced in a simplified model of a cortical sulcus by a figure-eight coil was calculated using the finite element method (FEM). This electric field was then used as the input to determine the response of compartmental models of several types of neurons. RESULTS The modeled neurons were stimulated at different sites: fiber bends for pyramidal tract neurons, axonal terminations for cortical interneurons and axon collaterals, and a combination of both for pyramidal association fibers. All neurons were more easily stimulated by a PA - directed electric field, except association fibers. Additionally, the second phase of a biphasic pulse was found to be more efficient than the first phase of either monophasic or biphasic pulses. CONCLUSIONS The stimulation threshold for different types of neurons depends on the pulse waveform and relative current direction. The reported results might account for the range of responses obtained in TMS of the motor cortex when using different stimulation parameters. SIGNIFICANCE Modeling studies combining electric field calculations and neuronal models may lead to a deeper understanding of the effect of the TMS-induced electric field on cortical tissue, and may be used to improve TMS coil and waveform design.
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Kang JS, Terranova C, Hilker R, Quartarone A, Ziemann U. Deficient Homeostatic Regulation of Practice-Dependent Plasticity in Writer’s Cramp. Cereb Cortex 2010; 21:1203-12. [DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhq204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Heidegger T, Krakow K, Ziemann U. Effects of antiepileptic drugs on associative LTP-like plasticity in human motor cortex. Eur J Neurosci 2010; 32:1215-22. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2010.07375.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Impact of the gyral geometry on the electric field induced by transcranial magnetic stimulation. Neuroimage 2010; 54:234-43. [PMID: 20682353 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.07.061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 259] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2010] [Revised: 07/21/2010] [Accepted: 07/23/2010] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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The spatial extent of the effects of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) on neural tissue is only coarsely understood. One key problem is the realistic calculation of the electric field induced in the brain, which proves difficult due to the complex gyral folding pattern that results in an inhomogeneous conductivity distribution within the skull. We used the finite element method (FEM) together with a high-resolution volume mesh of the human head to better characterize the field induced in cortical gray matter (GM). The volume mesh was constructed from T1-weighted structural magnetic resonance images to allow for an anatomically accurate modeling of the gyrification pattern. Five tissue types were taken into account, corresponding to skin, skull, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) including the ventricles as well as cortical gray and white matter. We characterized the effect of the current direction on the electric field distribution in GM. Importantly, the field strength in GM was increased by up to 51% when the induced currents were perpendicular to the local gyrus orientation. This effect was mainly restricted to the gyral crowns and lips, but did not extend into the sulcal walls. As a result, the focality of the fields induced in GM was increased. This enhancement effect might in part underlie the dependency of stimulation thresholds on coil orientation, as commonly observed in TMS motor cortex studies. In contrast to the clear-cut effects of the gyrification pattern on the induced field strength, current directions were predominantly influenced by the CSF-skull boundary.
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Müller-Dahlhaus F, Ziemann U, Classen J. Plasticity resembling spike-timing dependent synaptic plasticity: the evidence in human cortex. Front Synaptic Neurosci 2010; 2:34. [PMID: 21423520 PMCID: PMC3059695 DOI: 10.3389/fnsyn.2010.00034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2010] [Accepted: 07/11/2010] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Spike-timing dependent plasticity (STDP) has been studied extensively in a variety of animal models during the past decade but whether it can be studied at the systems level of the human cortex has been a matter of debate. Only recently newly developed non-invasive brain stimulation techniques such as transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) have made it possible to induce and assess timing dependent plasticity in conscious human subjects. This review will present a critical synopsis of these experiments, which suggest that several of the principal characteristics and molecular mechanisms of TMS-induced plasticity correspond to those of STDP as studied at a cellular level. TMS combined with a second phasic stimulation modality can induce bidirectional long-lasting changes in the excitability of the stimulated cortex, whose polarity depends on the order of the associated stimulus-evoked events within a critical time window of tens of milliseconds. Pharmacological evidence suggests an NMDA receptor mediated form of synaptic plasticity. Studies in human motor cortex demonstrated that motor learning significantly modulates TMS-induced timing dependent plasticity, and, conversely, may be modulated bidirectionally by prior TMS-induced plasticity, providing circumstantial evidence that long-term potentiation-like mechanisms may be involved in motor learning. In summary, convergent evidence is being accumulated for the contention that it is now possible to induce STDP-like changes in the intact human central nervous system by means of TMS to study and interfere with synaptic plasticity in neural circuits in the context of behavior such as learning and memory.
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Milani P, Piu P, Popa T, della Volpe R, Bonifazi M, Rossi A, Mazzocchio R. Cortisol-induced effects on human cortical excitability. Brain Stimul 2010; 3:131-9. [DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2009.07.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2009] [Revised: 07/21/2009] [Accepted: 07/26/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022] Open
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The use of transcranial magnetic stimulation in cognitive neuroscience: a new synthesis of methodological issues. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2010; 35:516-36. [PMID: 20599555 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2010.06.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 221] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2010] [Revised: 06/15/2010] [Accepted: 06/17/2010] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) has become a mainstay of cognitive neuroscience, thus facing new challenges due to its widespread application on behaviorally silent areas. In this review we will summarize the main technical and methodological considerations that are necessary when using TMS in cognitive neuroscience, based on a corpus of studies and technical improvements that has become available in most recent years. Although TMS has been applied only relatively recently on a large scale to the study of higher functions, a range of protocols that elucidate how this technique can be used to investigate a variety of issues is already available, such as single pulse, paired pulse, dual-site, repetitive and theta burst TMS. Finally, we will touch on recent promising approaches that provide powerful new insights about causal interactions among brain regions (i.e., TMS with other neuroimaging techniques) and will enable researchers to enhance the functional resolution of TMS (i.e., state-dependent TMS). We will end by briefly summarizing and discussing the implications of the newest safety guidelines.
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The effects of motor cortex rTMS on corticospinal descending activity. Clin Neurophysiol 2010; 121:464-73. [DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2009.11.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2009] [Revised: 10/14/2009] [Accepted: 11/08/2009] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Caveats when studying motor cortex excitability and the cortical control of movement using transcranial magnetic stimulation. Clin Neurophysiol 2010; 121:121-3. [DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2009.10.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2009] [Revised: 10/13/2009] [Accepted: 10/14/2009] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Ros T, Munneke MAM, Ruge D, Gruzelier JH, Rothwell JC. Endogenous control of waking brain rhythms induces neuroplasticity in humans. Eur J Neurosci 2010; 31:770-8. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2010.07100.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 131] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Schlaepfer TE, George MS, Mayberg H. WFSBP Guidelines on Brain Stimulation Treatments in Psychiatry. World J Biol Psychiatry 2010; 11:2-18. [PMID: 20146648 DOI: 10.3109/15622970903170835] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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George MS, Aston-Jones G. Noninvasive techniques for probing neurocircuitry and treating illness: vagus nerve stimulation (VNS), transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS). Neuropsychopharmacology 2010; 35:301-16. [PMID: 19693003 PMCID: PMC3055429 DOI: 10.1038/npp.2009.87] [Citation(s) in RCA: 233] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2009] [Revised: 06/12/2009] [Accepted: 06/17/2009] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Although the preceding chapters discuss much of the new knowledge of neurocircuitry of neuropsychiatric diseases, and an invasive approach to treatment, this chapter describes and reviews the noninvasive methods of testing circuit-based theories and treating neuropsychiatric diseases that do not involve implanting electrodes into the brain or on its surface. These techniques are transcranial magnetic stimulation, vagus nerve stimulation, and transcranial direct current stimulation. Two of these approaches have FDA approval as therapies.
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- Mark S George
- Departments of Psychiatry, Radiology and Neuroscience, Institute of Psychiatry, MUSC Center for Advanced Imaging Research, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA.
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Cash RFH, Ziemann U, Murray K, Thickbroom GW. Late Cortical Disinhibition in Human Motor Cortex: A Triple-Pulse Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Study. J Neurophysiol 2010; 103:511-8. [DOI: 10.1152/jn.00782.2009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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In human motor cortex transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) has been used to identify short-interval intracortical inhibition (SICI) corresponding to γ-aminobutyric acid type A (GABAA) effects and long-interval intracortical inhibition (LICI) and the cortical silent period (SP) corresponding to postsynaptic GABAB effects. Presynaptic GABAB effects, corresponding to disinhibition, can also be identified with TMS and have been shown to be acting during LICI by measuring SICI after a suprathreshold priming stimulus (PS). The duration of disinhibition is not certain and, guided by studies in experimental preparations, we hypothesized that it may be longer-lasting than postsynaptic inhibition, leading to a period of late cortical disinhibition and consequently a net increase in corticospinal excitability. We tested this first by measuring the motor-evoked potential (MEP) to a test stimulus (TS), delivered after a PS at interpulse intervals (IPIs) ≤300 ms that encompassed the period of PS-induced LICI and its aftermath. MEP amplitude was initially decreased, but then increased at IPIs of 190–210 ms, reaching 160 ± 17% of baseline 200 ms after PS ( P < 0.05). SP duration was 181 ± 5 ms. A second experiment established that the onset of the later period of increased excitability correlated with PS intensity ( r2 = 0.99) and with the duration of the SP ( r2 = 0.99). The third and main experiment demonstrated that SICI was significantly reduced in strength at all IPIs ≤220 ms after PS. We conclude that TMS-induced LICI is associated with a period of disinhibition that is at first masked by LICI, but that outlasts LICI and gives rise to a period during which disinhibition predominates and net excitability is raised. Identification of this late period of disinhibition in human motor cortex may provide an opportunity to explore or modulate the behavior of excitatory networks at a time when inhibitory effects are restrained.
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- R. F. H. Cash
- Centre for Neuromuscular and Neurological Disorders and
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- Department of Neurology, Goethe-University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany/
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- School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Perth, Australia; and
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Ziemann U. TMS in cognitive neuroscience: Virtual lesion and beyond. Cortex 2010; 46:124-7. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2009.02.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2008] [Revised: 12/09/2008] [Accepted: 02/06/2009] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Hoogendam JM, Ramakers GMJ, Di Lazzaro V. Physiology of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation of the human brain. Brain Stimul 2009; 3:95-118. [PMID: 20633438 DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2009.10.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 449] [Impact Index Per Article: 29.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2009] [Revised: 10/19/2009] [Accepted: 10/28/2009] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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During the last two decades, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) has rapidly become a valuable method to investigate noninvasively the human brain. In addition, repetitive TMS (rTMS) is able to induce changes in brain activity that last after stimulation. Therefore, rTMS has therapeutic potential in patients with neurologic and psychiatric disorders. It is, however, unclear by which mechanism rTMS induces these lasting effects on the brain. The effects of rTMS are often described as LTD- or LTP-like, because the duration of these alterations seems to implicate changes in synaptic plasticity. In this review we therefore discuss, based on rTMS experiments and knowledge about synaptic plasticity, whether the physiologic basis of rTMS-effects relates to changes in synaptic plasticity. We present seven lines of evidence that strongly suggest a link between the aftereffects induced by rTMS and the induction of synaptic plasticity. It is, nevertheless, important to realize that at present it is impossible to demonstrate a direct link between rTMS on the one hand and synaptic plasticity on the other. Therefore, we provide suggestions for future, innovating research, aiming to investigate both the local effects of rTMS on the synapse and the effects of rTMS on other, more global levels of brain organization. Only in that way can the aftereffects of rTMS on the brain be completely understood.
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- Janna Marie Hoogendam
- Rudolf Magnus Institute of Neuroscience, Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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A transcranial magnetic stimulation study of the effects of cannabis use on motor cortical inhibition and excitability. Neuropsychopharmacology 2009; 34:2368-75. [PMID: 19571796 DOI: 10.1038/npp.2009.71] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Active compounds in cannabis such as tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) interact with the inhibitory neurotransmitter delta-aminobutyric acid (GABA) but little is known about the functional effects of cannabis on human cortical brain processes. Therefore, the aim of the study was to investigate whether patients with chronic cannabis use demonstrate abnormalities in cortical inhibition or excitability. In all, 42 chronic cannabis using subjects (divided into heavy and light using subjects) and 19 controls were included in the study. Single and paired pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation were used to assess a number of parameters of cortical inhibition and cortical excitability. In addition, psychomotor function and THC plasma levels were measured. Both cannabis using groups (heavy and light use) demonstrated a reduction in short interval cortical inhibition compared with healthy controls, but there was no difference in other measures of cortical inhibition or cortical excitability. There was also no difference between the two groups on measures of psychomotor performance. Chronic cannabis use is associated with a reduction in cortical inhibition potentially related to activity at the GABA(A) receptors. Further research is required to explore whether this results from chronic cannabis use or reflects an underlying predisposition to developing chronic substance use problems.
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Alle H, Heidegger T, Kriváneková L, Ziemann U. Interactions between short-interval intracortical inhibition and short-latency afferent inhibition in human motor cortex. J Physiol 2009; 587:5163-76. [PMID: 19752113 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2009.179820] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) allows the testing of various inhibitory processes in human motor cortex. Here we aimed at gaining more insight into the underlying physiology by studying the interactions between short-interval intracortical inhibition (SICI) and short-latency afferent inhibition (SAI). SICI and SAI were examined in a slightly contracting hand muscle of healthy subjects by measuring inhibition of a test motor-evoked potential conditioned by a sub-threshold motor cortical magnetic pulse (S1) or an electrical pulse (P) applied to the ulnar nerve at the wrist, respectively. SICI alone and SAI alone had similar magnitude when S1 intensity was set to 90% active motor threshold and P intensity to three times the perceptual sensory threshold. SICI was reduced or even disinhibited when P was co-applied, and SAI was reduced or disinhibited when S1 was co-applied. These interactions did not depend on the exact timing of arrival of P and S1 in motor cortex. A control experiment with a S1 intensity lowered to 70% active motor threshold excluded a contribution by short-interval intracortical facilitation. Finally, SICI with co-applied P correlated linearly with SICI alone with a slope of the regression line close to 1 whereas SAI did not correlate with SAI when S1 was co-applied with a slope of the regression line close to zero. Data indicate that S1 largely eliminates the effects of P when applied together, suggesting dominance of S1 over P. Findings strongly support the idea that SICI and SAI are mediated through two distinct and reciprocally connected subtypes of GABAergic inhibitory interneurons with convergent projections onto the corticospinal neurons. Furthermore, dominance of S1 over P is compatible with the notion that the SICI interneurons target the corticospinal neurons closer to their axon initial segment than the SAI interneurons.
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- Henrik Alle
- Department of Neurology, Goethe-University, Schleusenweg 2-16, 60528 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Motor learning is important throughout life for acquisition and adjustment of motor skill. The extent of motor learning may be modulated by the history of motor cortex activity, but little is known which metaplasticity rule (homeostatic vs nonhomeostatic) governs this interaction. Here, we explored in nine healthy adults the effects of three different paired associative stimulation (PAS) protocols on subsequent learning of rapid thumb flexion movements. PAS resulted in either a long-term potentiation (LTP)-like increase in excitability of the stimulated motor cortex (PAS(LTP)), or a long-term depression (LTD)-like decrease (PAS(LTD)), or no change (control condition, PAS(CON)). Learning was indexed by the increase in peak acceleration of the trained movement. Delays of 0 and 90 min between PAS and motor practice were tested. At the 0 min delay, PAS(LTD) strongly facilitated motor learning (homeostatic interaction), and PAS(LTP) also facilitated learning, although to a lesser extent (nonhomeostatic interaction). At the 90 min delay, PAS(LTD) facilitated learning, whereas PAS(LTP) depressed learning (interactions both homeostatic). Therefore, facilitation of learning by previous brain stimulation occurs primarily and most effectively through homeostatic interactions, but at the 0 min delay, nonhomeostatic mechanisms such as LTP-induced blockade of LTD and nonsaturated LTP-induced facilitation of learning might also play a role. The present findings demonstrate that motor learning in humans can be modulated by noninvasive brain stimulation and suggest the possibility of enhancing motor relearning in defined neurological patients.
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Möller C, Arai N, Lücke J, Ziemann U. Hysteresis effects on the input–output curve of motor evoked potentials. Clin Neurophysiol 2009; 120:1003-8. [DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2009.03.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2008] [Revised: 02/27/2009] [Accepted: 03/03/2009] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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LTD-like plasticity induced by paired associative stimulation: direct evidence in humans. Exp Brain Res 2009; 194:661-4. [DOI: 10.1007/s00221-009-1774-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2009] [Accepted: 03/09/2009] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Di Lazzaro V, Dileone M, Pilato F, Profice P, Oliviero A, Mazzone P, Insola A, Capone F, Ranieri F, Tonali PA. Associative Motor Cortex Plasticity: Direct Evidence in Humans. Cereb Cortex 2009; 19:2326-30. [DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhn255] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Reis J, Robertson E, Krakauer JW, Rothwell J, Marshall L, Gerloff C, Wassermann E, Pascual-Leone A, Hummel F, Celnik PA, Classen J, Floel A, Ziemann U, Paulus W, Siebner HR, Born J, Cohen LG. Consensus: "Can tDCS and TMS enhance motor learning and memory formation?". Brain Stimul 2008; 1:363-9. [PMID: 19802336 DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2008.08.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 177] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2008] [Revised: 07/29/2008] [Accepted: 08/02/2008] [Indexed: 10/21/2022] Open
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Noninvasive brain stimulation has developed as a promising tool for cognitive neuroscientists. Transcranial magnetic (TMS) and direct current (tDCS) stimulation allow researchers to purposefully enhance or decrease excitability in focal areas of the brain. The purpose of this paper is to review information on the use of TMS and tDCS as research tools to facilitate motor memory formation, motor performance and motor learning in healthy volunteers. Studies implemented so far have mostly focused on the ability of TMS and tDCS to elicit relatively short lasting motor improvements and the mechanisms underlying these changes have been only partially investigated. Despite limitations including the scarcity of data, work that has been already accomplished raises the exciting hypothesis that currently available noninvasive transcranial stimulation techniques could modulate motor learning and memory formation in healthy humans and potentially in patients with neurological and psychiatric disorders.
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- Janine Reis
- Human Cortical Physiology Section, NINDS, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
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