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Green S, Karunakaran KD, Labadie R, Kussman B, Mizrahi-Arnaud A, Morad AG, Berry D, Zurakowski D, Micheli L, Peng K, Borsook D. fNIRS brain measures of ongoing nociception during surgical incisions under anesthesia. NEUROPHOTONICS 2022; 9:015002. [PMID: 35111876 PMCID: PMC8794294 DOI: 10.1117/1.nph.9.1.015002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2021] [Accepted: 12/10/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Significance: Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) has evaluated pain in awake and anesthetized states. Aim: We evaluated fNIRS signals under general anesthesia in patients undergoing knee surgery for anterior cruciate ligament repair. Approach: Patients were split into groups: those with regional nerve block (NB) and those without (non-NB). Continuous fNIRS measures came from three regions: the primary somatosensory cortex (S1), known to be involved in evaluation of nociception, the lateral prefrontal cortex (BA9), and the polar frontal cortex (BA10), both involved in higher cortical functions (such as cognition and emotion). Results: Our results show three significant differences in fNIRS signals to incision procedures between groups: (1) NB compared with non-NB was associated with a greater net positive hemodynamic response to pain procedures in S1; (2) dynamic correlation between the prefrontal cortex (PreFC) and S1 within 1 min of painful procedures are anticorrelated in NB while positively correlated in non-NB; and (3) hemodynamic measures of activation were similar at two separate time points during surgery (i.e., first and last incisions) in PreFC and S1 but showed significant differences in their overlap. Comparing pain levels immediately after surgery and during discharge from postoperative care revealed no significant differences in the pain levels between NB and non-NB. Conclusion: Our data suggest multiple pain events that occur during surgery using devised algorithms could potentially give a measure of "pain load." This may allow for evaluation of central sensitization (i.e., a heightened state of the nervous system where noxious and non-noxious stimuli is perceived as painful) to postoperative pain levels and the resulting analgesic consumption. This evaluation could potentially predict postsurgical chronic neuropathic pain.
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- Stephen Green
- Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, The Center for Pain and the Brain, Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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- Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, The Center for Pain and the Brain, Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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- Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, The Center for Pain and the Brain, Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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- Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Division of Cardiac Anesthesia, Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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- Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Division of Perioperative Anesthesia, Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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- Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Division of Perioperative Anesthesia, Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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- Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, The Center for Pain and the Brain, Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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- Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Division of Biostatistics, Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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- Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Sports Medicine Division, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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- Université de Montréal, Département en Neuroscience, Centre de Recherche du CHUM, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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- Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Departments of Psychiatry and Radiology, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Hama N, Kawai M, Ito SI, Hirota A. Optical Analysis of Acute Changes after Peripheral Nerve Injury in Spatio-Temporal Pattern of Neural Response to Forelimb Stimulation in Rat Somatosensory Cortex. Neuroscience 2020; 448:85-93. [PMID: 32941935 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2020.09.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2020] [Revised: 08/21/2020] [Accepted: 09/05/2020] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Peripheral nerve injury induces functional reorganization of the central nervous system. The mechanisms underlying this reorganization have been widely studied. Our previous study involving multiple-site optical recording reported that a neural excitatory wave induced by somatic stimulation begins in a small area and propagates in the cortex. In the present study, to examine the possible role of this propagation wave in cortical reorganization, we analyzed the early changes in the spatio-temporal pattern of the sensory-evoked wave immediately, and 30 min, after nerve injury. The response to hypothenar stimulation, innervated by the ulnar nerve and adjoining the median nerve area, persisted after injury to either the ulnar or median nerve. Initially, we assessed changes in the response pattern at the focus. The latency increased after ulnar nerve injury, whereas no change was observed after median nerve injury. Similarly, no change was noted in the duration of the response signal with either nerve injury. Second, changes in the propagation wave pattern were analyzed. Ulnar nerve injury decreased the propagation velocity in the medial direction but the median nerve injury induced no changes. These results indicated that the propagation wave pattern is readily altered, even immediately after nerve injury, and suggest that this immediate change in the spatio-temporal pattern is one of the factors contributing to the cortical reorganization.
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- Noriyuki Hama
- Department of Neural and Muscular Physiology, Shimane University School of Medicine, Izumo, Shimane 693-8501, Japan.
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- Department of Neural and Muscular Physiology, Shimane University School of Medicine, Izumo, Shimane 693-8501, Japan
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- Department of Neural and Muscular Physiology, Shimane University School of Medicine, Izumo, Shimane 693-8501, Japan
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- Department of Neural and Muscular Physiology, Shimane University School of Medicine, Izumo, Shimane 693-8501, Japan
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Oouchida Y, Sudo T, Inamura T, Tanaka N, Ohki Y, Izumi SI. Maladaptive change of body representation in the brain after damage to central or peripheral nervous system. Neurosci Res 2015; 104:38-43. [PMID: 26748075 DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2015.12.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2015] [Revised: 12/24/2015] [Accepted: 12/24/2015] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Our brain has great flexibility to cope with various changes in the environment. Use-dependent plasticity, a kind of functional plasticity, plays the most important role in this ability to cope. For example, the functional recovery of paretic limb motor movement during post-stroke rehabilitation depends mainly on how much it is used. Patients with hemiparesis, however, tend to gradually disuse the paretic limb because of its motor impairment. Decreased use of the paretic hand then leads to further functional decline brought by use-dependent plasticity. To break this negative loop, body representation, which is the conscious and unconscious information regarding body state stored in the brain, is key for using the paretic limb because it plays an important role in selecting an effector while a motor program is generated. In an attempt to understand body representation in the brain, we reviewed animal and human literature mainly on the alterations of the sensory maps in the primary somatosensory cortex corresponding to the changes in limb usage caused by peripheral or central nervous system damage.
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- Yutaka Oouchida
- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Tohoku University, Miyagi, Japan.
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- Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, Tohoku University, Miyagi, Japan
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- National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan; The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan
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- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Tohoku University, Miyagi, Japan
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- School of Medicine, Kyorin University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Tohoku University, Miyagi, Japan; Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, Tohoku University, Miyagi, Japan
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Qi HX, Kaas JH, Reed JL. The reactivation of somatosensory cortex and behavioral recovery after sensory loss in mature primates. Front Syst Neurosci 2014; 8:84. [PMID: 24860443 PMCID: PMC4026759 DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2014.00084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2014] [Accepted: 04/22/2014] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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In our experiments, we removed a major source of activation of somatosensory cortex in mature monkeys by unilaterally sectioning the sensory afferents in the dorsal columns of the spinal cord at a high cervical level. At this level, the ascending branches of tactile afferents from the hand are cut, while other branches of these afferents remain intact to terminate on neurons in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord. Immediately after such a lesion, the monkeys seem relatively unimpaired in locomotion and often use the forelimb, but further inspection reveals that they prefer to use the unaffected hand in reaching for food. In addition, systematic testing indicates that they make more errors in retrieving pieces of food, and start using visual inspection of the rotated hand to confirm the success of the grasping of the food. Such difficulties are not surprising as a complete dorsal column lesion totally deactivates the contralateral hand representation in primary somatosensory cortex (area 3b). However, hand use rapidly improves over the first post-lesion weeks, and much of the hand representational territory in contralateral area 3b is reactivated by inputs from the hand in roughly a normal somatotopic pattern. Quantitative measures of single neuron response properties reveal that reactivated neurons respond to tactile stimulation on the hand with high firing rates and only slightly longer latencies. We conclude that preserved dorsal column afferents after nearly complete lesions contribute to the reactivation of cortex and the recovery of the behavior, but second-order sensory pathways in the spinal cord may also play an important role. Our microelectrode recordings indicate that these preserved first-order, and second-order pathways are initially weak and largely ineffective in activating cortex, but they are potentiated during the recovery process. Therapies that would promote this potentiation could usefully enhance recovery after spinal cord injury.
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- Hui-Xin Qi
- Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN, USA
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Aguilar J, Humanes-Valera D, Alonso-Calviño E, Yague JG, Moxon KA, Oliviero A, Foffani G. Spinal cord injury immediately changes the state of the brain. J Neurosci 2010; 30:7528-37. [PMID: 20519527 PMCID: PMC3842476 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.0379-10.2010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 125] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2010] [Revised: 03/16/2010] [Accepted: 04/14/2010] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Spinal cord injury can produce extensive long-term reorganization of the cerebral cortex. Little is known, however, about the sequence of cortical events starting immediately after the lesion. Here we show that a complete thoracic transection of the spinal cord produces immediate functional reorganization in the primary somatosensory cortex of anesthetized rats. Besides the obvious loss of cortical responses to hindpaw stimuli (below the level of the lesion), cortical responses evoked by forepaw stimuli (above the level of the lesion) markedly increase. Importantly, these increased responses correlate with a slower and overall more silent cortical spontaneous activity, representing a switch to a network state of slow-wave activity similar to that observed during slow-wave sleep. The same immediate cortical changes are observed after reversible pharmacological block of spinal cord conduction, but not after sham. We conclude that the deafferentation due to spinal cord injury can immediately (within minutes) change the state of large cortical networks, and that this state change plays a critical role in the early cortical reorganization after spinal cord injury.
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- Juan Aguilar
- Hospital Nacional de Parapléjicos, Servicio de Salud de Castilla–La Mancha, 45071 Toledo, Spain, and
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- Hospital Nacional de Parapléjicos, Servicio de Salud de Castilla–La Mancha, 45071 Toledo, Spain, and
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- Hospital Nacional de Parapléjicos, Servicio de Salud de Castilla–La Mancha, 45071 Toledo, Spain, and
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- Hospital Nacional de Parapléjicos, Servicio de Salud de Castilla–La Mancha, 45071 Toledo, Spain, and
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, Science, and Health Systems, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
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- Hospital Nacional de Parapléjicos, Servicio de Salud de Castilla–La Mancha, 45071 Toledo, Spain, and
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- Hospital Nacional de Parapléjicos, Servicio de Salud de Castilla–La Mancha, 45071 Toledo, Spain, and
- School of Biomedical Engineering, Science, and Health Systems, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
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Rewiring of hindlimb corticospinal neurons after spinal cord injury. Nat Neurosci 2009; 13:97-104. [PMID: 20010824 DOI: 10.1038/nn.2448] [Citation(s) in RCA: 140] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2009] [Accepted: 10/15/2009] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Little is known about the functional role of axotomized cortical neurons that survive spinal cord injury. Large thoracic spinal cord injuries in adult rats result in impairments of hindlimb function. Using retrograde tracers, we found that axotomized corticospinal axons from the hindlimb sensorimotor cortex sprouted in the cervical spinal cord. Mapping of these neurons revealed the emergence of a new forelimb corticospinal projection from the rostral part of the former hindlimb cortex. Voltage-sensitive dye (VSD) imaging and blood-oxygen-level-dependent functional magnetic resonance imaging (BOLD fMRI) revealed a stable expansion of the forelimb sensory map, covering in particular the former hindlimb cortex containing the rewired neurons. Therefore, axotomized hindlimb corticospinal neurons can be incorporated into the sensorimotor circuits of the unaffected forelimb.
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Xerri C. Imprinting of idyosyncratic experience in cortical sensory maps: Neural substrates of representational remodeling and correlative perceptual changes. Behav Brain Res 2008; 192:26-41. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2008.02.038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2007] [Revised: 02/27/2008] [Accepted: 02/27/2008] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Spierer L, Tardif E, Sperdin H, Murray MM, Clarke S. Learning-induced plasticity in auditory spatial representations revealed by electrical neuroimaging. J Neurosci 2007; 27:5474-83. [PMID: 17507569 PMCID: PMC6672359 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.0764-07.2007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Auditory spatial representations are likely encoded at a population level within human auditory cortices. We investigated learning-induced plasticity of spatial discrimination in healthy subjects using auditory-evoked potentials (AEPs) and electrical neuroimaging analyses. Stimuli were 100 ms white-noise bursts lateralized with varying interaural time differences. In three experiments, plasticity was induced with 40 min of discrimination training. During training, accuracy significantly improved from near-chance levels to approximately 75%. Before and after training, AEPs were recorded to stimuli presented passively with a more medial sound lateralization outnumbering a more lateral one (7:1). In experiment 1, the same lateralizations were used for training and AEP sessions. Significant AEP modulations to the different lateralizations were evident only after training, indicative of a learning-induced mismatch negativity (MMN). More precisely, this MMN at 195-250 ms after stimulus onset followed from differences in the AEP topography to each stimulus position, indicative of changes in the underlying brain network. In experiment 2, mirror-symmetric locations were used for training and AEP sessions; no training-related AEP modulations or MMN were observed. In experiment 3, the discrimination of trained plus equidistant untrained separations was tested psychophysically before and 0, 6, 24, and 48 h after training. Learning-induced plasticity lasted <6 h, did not generalize to untrained lateralizations, and was not the simple result of strengthening the representation of the trained lateralizations. Thus, learning-induced plasticity of auditory spatial discrimination relies on spatial comparisons, rather than a spatial anchor or a general comparator. Furthermore, cortical auditory representations of space are dynamic and subject to rapid reorganization.
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- Neuropsychology and Neurorehabiliation Service and
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- Neuropsychology and Neurorehabiliation Service and
- Radiology Service, The Functional Electrical Neuroimaging Laboratory, Vaudois University Hospital Center, and
- EEG Core, Center for Biomedical Imaging of Lausanne and Geneva, Lausanne, 1011 Switzerland
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De Ridder D, De Mulder G, Verstraeten E, Sunaert S, Moller A. Somatosensory cortex stimulation for deafferentation pain. ACTA NEUROCHIRURGICA. SUPPLEMENT 2007; 97:67-74. [PMID: 17691291 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-211-33081-4_8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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Functional neuroimaging has demonstrated that a relationship exists between the intensity of deafferentation pain and the degree of deafferentation-related reorganization of the primary somatosensory cortex. It has also revealed that this cortical reorganization can be reversed after the attenuation of pain. Deafferentation pain is also associated with hyperactivity of the somatosensory thalamus and cortex. Therefore, in order to suppress pain, it seems logical to attempt to modify this deafferentation-related somatosensory cortex hyperactivity and reorganization. This can be achieved using neuronavigation-guided transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), a technique that is capable of modulating cortical activity. If TMS is capable of suppressing deafferentation pain, this benefit should be also obtained by the implantation of epidural stimulating electrodes over the area of electrophysiological signal abnormality in the primary somatosensory cortex. The first studies demonstrated a statistically significant pain suppression in all patients and a clinically significant pain suppression in 80% of them. This clinical experience suggests that somatosensory cortex stimulation may become a neurophysiology-based new approach for treating deafferentation pain in selected patients. In this chapter, we review the relevant recent reports and describe our studies in this field.
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- D De Ridder
- Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Antwerp, Edegem, Belgium.
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Weiss T, Miltner WHR, Liepert J, Meissner W, Taub E. Rapid functional plasticity in the primary somatomotor cortex and perceptual changes after nerve block. Eur J Neurosci 2004; 20:3413-23. [PMID: 15610174 DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2004.03790.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The mature human primary somatosensory cortex displays a striking plastic capacity to reorganize itself in response to changes in sensory input. Following the elimination of afferent return, produced by either amputation, deafferentation by dorsal rhizotomy, or nerve block, there is a well-known but little-understood 'invasion' of the deafferented region of the brain by the cortical representation zones of still-intact portions of the brain adjacent to it. We report here that within an hour of abolishing sensation from the radial and medial three-quarters of the hand by pharmacological blockade of the radial and median nerves, magnetic source imaging showed that the cortical representation of the little finger and the skin beneath the lower lip, whose intact cortical representation zones are adjacent to the deafferented region, had moved closer together, presumably because of their expansion across the deafferented area. A paired-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation procedure revealed a motor cortex disinhibition for two muscles supplied by the unaffected ulnar nerve. In addition, two notable perceptual changes were observed: increased two-point discrimination ability near the lip and mislocalization of touch of the intact ulnar portion of the fourth finger to the neighbouring third finger whose nerve supply was blocked. We suggest that disinhibition within the somatosensory system as a functional correlate for the known enlargement of cortical representation zones might account for not only the 'invasion' phenomenon, but also for the observed behavioural correlates of the nerve block.
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- Thomas Weiss
- Department of Biological and Clinical Psychology, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Am Steiger 3 Haus 1, D-07743 Jena, Germany.
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Varejão ASP, Cabrita AM, Meek MF, Bulas-Cruz J, Melo-Pinto P, Raimondo S, Geuna S, Giacobini-Robecchi MG. Functional and Morphological Assessment of a Standardized Rat Sciatic Nerve Crush Injury with a Non-Serrated Clamp. J Neurotrauma 2004; 21:1652-70. [PMID: 15684656 DOI: 10.1089/neu.2004.21.1652] [Citation(s) in RCA: 145] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Peripheral nerve researchers frequently use the rat sciatic nerve crush as a model for axonotmesis. Unfortunately, studies from various research groups report results from different crush techniques and by using a variety of evaluation tools, making comparisons between studies difficult. The purpose of this investigation was to determine the sequence of functional and morphologic changes after an acute sciatic nerve crush injury with a non-serrated clamp, giving a final standardized pressure of p = 9 MPa. Functional recovery was evaluated using the sciatic functional index (SFI), the extensor postural thrust (EPT) and the withdrawal reflex latency (WRL), before injury, and then at weekly intervals until week 8 postoperatively. The rats were also evaluated preoperatively and at weeks 2, 4, and 8 by ankle kinematics, toe out angle (TOA), and gait-stance duration. In addition, the motor nerve conduction velocity (MNCV) and the gastrocnemius-soleus weight parameters were measured just before euthanasia. Finally, structural, ultrastructural and histomorphometric analyses were carried out on regenerated nerve fibers. At 8 weeks after the crush injury, a full functional recovery was predicted by SFI, EPT, TOA, and gait-stance duration, while all the other parameters were still recovering their original values. On the other hand, only two of the histomorphometric parameters of regenerated nerve fibers, namely myelin thickness/axon diameter ratio and fiber/axon diameter ratio, returned to normal values while all other parameters were significantly different from normal values. The employment of traditional methods of functional evaluation in conjunction with the modern techniques of computerized analysis of gait and histomorphometric analysis should thus be recommended for an overall assessment of recovery in the rat sciatic nerve crush model.
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- Artur S P Varejão
- Department of Veterinary Sciences, CETAV, University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal.
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Dupont E, Canu MH, Falempin M. A 14-day period of hindpaw sensory deprivation enhances the responsiveness of rat cortical neurons. Neuroscience 2003; 121:433-9. [PMID: 14522001 DOI: 10.1016/s0306-4522(03)00494-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Hypodynamia-hypokinesia (HH) is a model of hindpaw sensory deprivation. It is obtained by unloading of the hindquarters during 14 days. In this situation, the feet are not in contact with the ground and as a consequence, the cutaneous receptors are not activated; the sensory input to the primary somatosensory cortex (SmI) is thus reduced. In a previous study, we have shown that HH induced a cortical reorganisation of the hindlimb representation. The understanding of the mechanisms involved in cortical map plasticity requires a close examination of the changes in response properties of cortical neurons during HH. The aim of the present study was thus to study the characteristics of neurons recorded from granular and infragranular layers in hindlimb representation of SmI. A total of 289 cortical neurons were recorded (158 from control rats and 131 from HH rats) in pentobarbital-anaesthetized rats. Cutaneous threshold, cutaneous receptive fields, spontaneous activity (discharge rate and instantaneous frequency) and activity evoked by air-jet stimulation (response latency and duration, amplitude) were analysed. The present study suggests that activity-dependent changes occur in the cortex. The duration of the spike waveform presented two populations of spikes: thin-spike cells (<1 ms, supposed to be inhibitory interneurons) and regular cells (>1 ms). Thin-spike cells were less frequently encountered in HH than in control rats. The analysis of regular cells revealed that after HH (1) spontaneous activity was unchanged and (2) cortical somatosensory neurons were more responsive: the cutaneous threshold was reduced and the response magnitude increased. Taken together, these results suggest a down-regulation of GABAergic function.
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- E Dupont
- Laboratoire de Plasticité Neuromusculaire, EA 1032, IFR 118, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, Bâtiment SN4, F-59655, Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France
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Calford MB. Mechanisms for acute changes in sensory maps. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2003; 508:451-60. [PMID: 12171142 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-0713-0_51] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/09/2023]
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Many studies have examined changes in the topographic representations of the special senses in cerebral cortex following partial peripheral deafferentations. This approach has demonstrated the short- medium- and long-term aspects of plasticity. However, the extensive capacity for immediate plasticity, while first demonstrated more than 15 years ago, still challenges explanation. What such studies indicate is that each locus in sensory cortex receives viable input from a far wider area of the sensory epithelium than is represented in the normal receptive field, with the implication that much of this input is normally inhibited. Consideration of the geometric and temporal aspects of receptive field plasticity suggests that this inhibition must be tonic and must derive its driving input from a tonically active periphery.
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- Mike B Calford
- Discipline of Human Physiology, School of Biomedical Science & Hunter Medical Research Institute, University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia.
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Studies of the effects of peripheral and central lesions, perceptual learning and neurochemical modification on the sensory representations in cortex have had a dramatic effect in alerting neuroscientists and therapists to the reorganizational capacity of the adult brain. An intriguing aspect of some of these investigations, such as partial peripheral denervation, is the short-term expression of these changes. Indeed, in visual cortex, auditory cortex and somatosensory cortex loss of input from a region of the peripheral receptor epithelium (retinal, basilar and cutaneous, respectively) induces rapid expression of ectopic, or expanded, receptive fields of affected neurons and reorganization of topographic maps to fill in the representation of the denervated area. The extent of these changes can, in some cases, match the maximal extents demonstrated with chronic manipulations. The rapidity, and reversibility, of the effects rules out many possible explanations which involve synaptic plasticity and points to a capacity for representational plasticity being inherent in the circuitry of a topographic pathway. Consequently, topographic representations must be considered as manifestations of physiological interaction rather than as anatomical constructs. Interference with this interaction can produce an unmasking of previously inhibited responsiveness. Consideration of the nature of masking inhibition which is consistent with the precision and order of a topographic representation and which has a capacity for rapid plasticity requires, in addition to stimulus-driven inhibition, a source of tonic input from the periphery. Such input, acting locally to provide tonic inhibition, has been directly demonstrated in the somatosensory system and is consistent with results obtained in auditory and visual systems.
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- M B Calford
- School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health and Hunter Medical Research Institute, The University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW 2308, Australia.
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Dupont E, Canu MH, Langlet C, Falempin M. Time course of recovery of the somatosensory map following hindpaw sensory deprivation in the rat. Neurosci Lett 2001; 309:121-4. [PMID: 11502360 DOI: 10.1016/s0304-3940(01)02050-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Hindlimb sensory deprivation is known to induce a decrease in the cortical representation of hindpaw, and an increase in the size of the cutaneous receptive fields. The aim of the present study was to determine (i) the time-course of recovery when the rat retrieves a normal use of its limbs after a 14-day period of sensory disruption and (ii) whether a 1-day period of sensory deprivation is sufficient to induce a plasticity. Our results indicate that the remodelling of the cortical map was not observed after 1 day of sensory deprivation. On the other hand, the recovery was achieved after 6 h. These findings suggest that a procedure reducing sensory function resulted in reversible changes in the somatosensory cortex. The recovery was more rapid than the induction of plasticity.
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- E Dupont
- Laboratoire de Plasticité Neuromusculaire, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, bâtiment SN4, 59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq cedex, France
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Wiech K, Preissl H, Lutzenberger W, Kiefer RT, Töpfner S, Haerle M, Schaller HE, Birbaumer N. Cortical reorganization after digit-to-hand replantation. J Neurosurg 2000; 93:876-83. [PMID: 11059672 DOI: 10.3171/jns.2000.93.5.0876] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Functional recovery after digit-to-hand replantation depends on the interaction of various factors. In addition to peripheral mechanisms, cortical and subcortical reorganization of digit representation may play a substantial role in the recovery process. However, cortical processes during the first months after replantation are not well understood. In this 25-year-old man who had traumatically lost digits II to V (DII-V) on his right hand, the authors used magnetoencephalographic source imaging to document the recovery of somatosensory cortical responses after tactile stimulation at four sites on the replanted digits. Successful replantation of DIV and DV was accomplished at the original position of DIII and DIV with mixed innervation. Cortical evoked fields could be recorded starting from the 10th week after digit-to-hand replantation. Initially, signals from all sites showed decreased amplitudes and prolonged latencies. In the subsequent six recordings obtained between the 12th and 55th week postreplantation, a continuous increase in amplitude but only a slight recovery of latencies were observed. Components of the recorded somatosensory evoked fields were localized in the primary somatosensory cortex (SI). The localizations of the replanted DIV showed a gradual lateral-inferior shift in the somatosensory cortex over time, indicating cortical reorganization caused by altered peripheral input. The authors infer from this shift that the original cortical area of the missing finger (DII) was taken over by the replanted finger. From these data the authors conclude that magnetic source imaging might be a reliable noninvasive method to evaluate surgical nerve repair and that cortical reorganization of SI is involved in the regeneration process following peripheral nerve injury.
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- K Wiech
- Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Tübingen, Germany.
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Pantev C, Lütkenhöner B. Magnetoencephalographic studies of functional organization and plasticity of the human auditory cortex. J Clin Neurophysiol 2000; 17:130-42. [PMID: 10831105 DOI: 10.1097/00004691-200003000-00003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Magnetoencephalography has proven to be a powerful noninvasive tool for investigating the functional organization of the human auditory cortex and its plastic changes. The first part of this review summarizes some recent experiments on the tonotopic organization, which can be observed not only in the slow auditory evoked fields, but also in the middle-latency and the steady-state fields. In the second part of this review, recent studies on plasticity of the auditory cortex are outlined. These studies showed that the cortical representation of tones may change within hours after a reversible "functional deafferentation" (short-term plasticity) and that early musical training leads to an expansion in the cortical representation of complex harmonic sounds (long-term plasticity).
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- C Pantev
- Institute of Experimental Audiology, University of Münster, Germany
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Pantev C, Wollbrink A, Roberts LE, Engelien A, Lütkenhöner B. Short-term plasticity of the human auditory cortex. Brain Res 1999; 842:192-9. [PMID: 10526109 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-8993(99)01835-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Magnetoencephalographic measurements (MEG) were used to examine the effect on the human auditory cortex of removing specific frequencies from the acoustic environment. Subjects listened for 3 h on three consecutive days to music "notched" by removal of a narrow frequency band centered on 1 kHz. Immediately after listening to the notched music, the neural representation for a 1-kHz test stimulus centered on the notch was found to be significantly diminished compared to the neural representation for a 0.5-kHz control stimulus centered one octave below the region of notching. The diminished neural representation for 1 kHz reversed to baseline between the successive listening sessions. These results suggest that rapid changes can occur in the tuning of neurons in the adult human auditory cortex following manipulation of the acoustic environment. A dynamic form of neural plasticity may underlie the phenomenon observed here.
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- C Pantev
- Biomagnetism Center, Institute of Experimental Audiology, University of Münster, Kardinal-von-Galen-Ring 10, D-48129, Münster, Germany.
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Bronchti G, Corthésy ME, Welker E. Partial denervation of the whiskerpad in adult mice: altered patterns of metabolic activity in barrel cortex. Eur J Neurosci 1999; 11:2847-55. [PMID: 10457181 DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.1999.00720.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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One hundred days after unilateral C-row nerve transection in the adult mouse whiskerpad, the caudal follicles of row C are reinnervated with approximately 80 % of the original number of axons [Corthésy, M.-E., Bronchti, G. & Welker, E. (1999) Eur. J. Neurosci. , 11, 2835-2846]. To what extent is this reinnervation functional, and how does it interact with the enlargement of the functional representation of neighbouring rows subsequent to the denervation? Using the autoradiographic deoxyglucose method, we studied the whisker representation at the level of the barrel cortex 100 days post lesionem. We stimulated whiskers belonging to the denervated row C, the neighbouring rows B and D, or to all five rows A-E. The deoxyglucose uptake was measured in tangential sections through layer IV. The results indicate that, 100 days post lesionem, whiskers of row C reactivate their cortical barrels. However, (i) the magnitude of this cortical response was reduced; (ii) row C barrels were equivalently activated by the stimulation of the neighbouring rows; and (iii) when all whiskers were stimulated, we observed a significantly reduced deoxyglucose uptake over the representation of nonlesioned whiskers of rows D and E. Therefore, 100 days after the peripheral nerve lesion the reinnervation of the whiskerpad had not restored a normal pattern of activation at the level of the barrel cortex. We propose that this is due to a modified interaction between the representations of the various rows of follicles at the cortical level that does not return to normal.
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- G Bronchti
- Institut de Biologie Cellulaire et de Morphologie, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
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Langlet C, Canu MH, Falempin M. Short-term reorganization of the rat somatosensory cortex following hypodynamia-hypokinesia. Neurosci Lett 1999; 266:145-8. [PMID: 10353348 DOI: 10.1016/s0304-3940(99)00296-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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This study was performed to determine if hypodynamia-hypokinesia (HH) could induce a reorganization of the rat somatosensory cortex. The cortical hindpaw representation was determined by stimulating the limb and recording multi-unit cortical activity. The size of the cutaneous receptive fields was also measured. After 14 days of HH, the size of the cortical hindpaw representation was decreased. The proportion of small cutaneous receptive fields decreased while the large ones increased. After 7 days of HH, no change in the two studied parameters was noticed in five animals. In the other rats, a number of sites unresponsive to cutaneous stimulation or with high thresholds was observed. This study provides evidence of a plasticity of the somatosensory cortex induced by a situation that reduces both sensory and motor functions. The cortical reorganization occurs in two stages.
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- C Langlet
- Laboratoire de Plasticité Neuromusculaire, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France.
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Xerri C. [Post-lesional plasticity of somatosensory cortex maps: a review]. COMPTES RENDUS DE L'ACADEMIE DES SCIENCES. SERIE III, SCIENCES DE LA VIE 1998; 321:135-51. [PMID: 9759332 DOI: 10.1016/s0764-4469(97)89813-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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- C Xerri
- Laboratoire de neurobiologie des restaurations fonctionnelles, université de Provence et UMR 6562 du CNRS, Marseille, France.
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