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Papadatou-Pastou M, Papadopoulou AK, Samsouris C, Mundorf A, Valtou MM, Ocklenburg S. Hand Preference in Stuttering: Meta-Analyses. Neuropsychol Rev 2023:10.1007/s11065-023-09617-z. [PMID: 37796428 DOI: 10.1007/s11065-023-09617-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2023] [Accepted: 08/24/2023] [Indexed: 10/06/2023]
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Reduced hemispheric asymmetries, as well as their behavioral manifestation in the form of atypical handedness (i.e., non-right, left-, or mixed-handedness), are linked to neurodevelopmental disorders, such as autism spectrum disorder, and several psychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia. One neurodevelopmental disorder that is associated with reduced hemispheric asymmetries, but for which findings on behavioral laterality are conflicting, is stuttering. Here, we report a series of meta-analyses of studies that report handedness (assessed as hand preference) levels in individuals who stutter (otherwise healthy) compared to controls. For this purpose, articles were identified via a search in PubMed, Scopus, and PsycInfo (13 June 2023). On the basis of k = 52 identified studies totaling n = 2590 individuals who stutter and n = 17,148 controls, five random effects meta-analyses were conducted: four using the odds ratio [left-handers (forced choice); left-handers (extreme); mixed-handers; non-right-handers vs. total)] and one using the standardized difference in means as the effect size. We did not find evidence of a left (extreme)- or mixed-handedness difference or a difference in mean handedness scores, but evidence did emerge, when it came to left-handedness (forced-choice) and (inconclusively for) non-right-handedness. Risk-of-bias analysis was not deemed necessary in the context of these meta-analyses. Differences in hand skill or strength of handedness could not be assessed as no pertinent studies were located. Severity of stuttering could not be used s a moderator, as too few studies broke down their data according to severity. Our findings do not allow for firm conclusions to be drawn on whether stuttering is associated with reduced hemispheric asymmetries, at least when it comes to their behavioral manifestation.
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Affiliation(s)
- Marietta Papadatou-Pastou
- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
- Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece.
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- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
- Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- Institute for Systems Medicine and Department of Human Medicine, MSH Medical School Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, Medical School Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
- ICAN Institute for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Medical School Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Biopsychology, Department of Psychology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
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Herbert P, Burke JR. Characterization of stimulus response curves obtained with transcranial magnetic stimulation from bilateral anterior digastric muscles in healthy subjects. Somatosens Mot Res 2021; 38:178-187. [PMID: 34126860 DOI: 10.1080/08990220.2021.1914019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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PURPOSE The purpose of the study was to describe measurements of stimulus-response curves in the anterior digastric muscle (ADM) bilaterally following transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to the right and left hemispheres. The first dorsal interosseous muscle (FDI) was the control muscle. MATERIALS AND METHODS The subjects were 20 healthy young adults. Test sessions determined motor thresholds (MT) and stimulus-response curves (1.0, 1.2, 1.4, 1.6 × MT) from either the FDI or ADM following TMS to left and right hemispheres using the double cone coil. Bilateral recordings of MEPs in the left and right ADM allowed us to generate stimulus response curves following ipsilateral and contralateral TMS. RESULTS Intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC) for MEP amplitudes from ipsilateral and contralateral ADMs were >0.60 at motor threshold (MT) and >0.90 at stimulus intensities above MT. There was a linear increase in MEP amplitudes across stimulus intensities for the FDI following contralateral TMS, while MEP amplitudes from the ADM following contralateral and ipsilateral TMS increased linearly across stimulus intensities [F(3, 57) [Muscle × Recording Site × Stim Intensity] = 33.57; p < 0.05]; (ηp2 = 0.64). The slopes of the stimulus-response curve of the contralateral FDI was greater than the slopes of the stimulus response curves of the ipsilateral and contralateral ADM (p < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS The current study provided insights on the methodology for recording stimulus response curves in the ADM with TMS. These findings may translate into a valid, reliable, and relevant clinical outcome to study the pathophysiology of the corticobulbar motor system.
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Narayana S, Gibbs SK, Fulton SP, McGregor AL, Mudigoudar B, Weatherspoon SE, Boop FA, Wheless JW. Clinical Utility of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) in the Presurgical Evaluation of Motor, Speech, and Language Functions in Young Children With Refractory Epilepsy or Brain Tumor: Preliminary Evidence. Front Neurol 2021; 12:650830. [PMID: 34093397 PMCID: PMC8170483 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2021.650830] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2021] [Accepted: 03/25/2021] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Accurate presurgical mapping of motor, speech, and language cortices, while crucial for neurosurgical planning and minimizing post-operative functional deficits, is challenging in young children with neurological disease. In such children, both invasive (cortical stimulation mapping) and non-invasive functional mapping imaging methods (MEG, fMRI) have limited success, often leading to delayed surgery or adverse post-surgical outcomes. We therefore examined the clinical utility of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) in young children who require functional mapping. In a retrospective chart review of TMS studies performed on children with refractory epilepsy or a brain tumor, at our institution, we identified 47 mapping sessions in 36 children 3 years of age or younger, in whom upper and lower extremity motor mapping was attempted; and 13 children 5–6 years old in whom language mapping, using a naming paradigm, was attempted. The primary hand motor cortex was identified in at least one hemisphere in 33 of 36 patients, and in both hemispheres in 27 children. In 17 children, primary leg motor cortex was also successfully identified. The language cortices in temporal regions were successfully mapped in 11 of 13 patients, and in six of them language cortices in frontal regions were also mapped, with most children (n = 5) showing right hemisphere dominance for expressive language. Ten children had a seizure that was consistent with their clinical semiology during or immediately following TMS, none of which required intervention or impeded completion of mapping. Using TMS, both normal motor, speech, and language developmental patterns and apparent disease induced reorganization were demonstrated in this young cohort. The successful localization of motor, speech, and language cortices in young children improved the understanding of the risk-benefit ratio prior to surgery and facilitated surgical planning aimed at preserving motor, speech, and language functions. Post-operatively, motor function was preserved or improved in nine out of 11 children who underwent surgery, as was language function in all seven children who had surgery for lesions near eloquent cortices. We provide feasibility data that TMS is a safe, reliable, and effective tool to map eloquent cortices in young children.
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- Shalini Narayana
- Division of Pediatric Neurology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, United States.,Le Bonheur Children's Hospital, The Neuroscience Institute, Memphis, TN, United States.,Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, United States
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- Le Bonheur Children's Hospital, The Neuroscience Institute, Memphis, TN, United States
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- Division of Pediatric Neurology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, United States.,Le Bonheur Children's Hospital, The Neuroscience Institute, Memphis, TN, United States
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- Division of Pediatric Neurology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, United States.,Le Bonheur Children's Hospital, The Neuroscience Institute, Memphis, TN, United States
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- Division of Pediatric Neurology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, United States.,Le Bonheur Children's Hospital, The Neuroscience Institute, Memphis, TN, United States
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- Division of Pediatric Neurology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, United States.,Le Bonheur Children's Hospital, The Neuroscience Institute, Memphis, TN, United States
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- Le Bonheur Children's Hospital, The Neuroscience Institute, Memphis, TN, United States.,Semmes Murphey Neurologic and Spine Institute, Memphis, TN, United States.,Department of Neurosurgery, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, United States
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- Division of Pediatric Neurology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, United States.,Le Bonheur Children's Hospital, The Neuroscience Institute, Memphis, TN, United States
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Belyk M, Lee YS, Brown S. How does human motor cortex regulate vocal pitch in singers? ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE 2018; 5:172208. [PMID: 30224990 PMCID: PMC6124115 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.172208] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2017] [Accepted: 07/20/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Vocal pitch is used as an important communicative device by humans, as found in the melodic dimension of both speech and song. Vocal pitch is determined by the degree of tension in the vocal folds of the larynx, which itself is influenced by complex and nonlinear interactions among the laryngeal muscles. The relationship between these muscles and vocal pitch has been described by a mathematical model in the form of a set of 'control rules'. We searched for the biological implementation of these control rules in the larynx motor cortex of the human brain. We scanned choral singers with functional magnetic resonance imaging as they produced discrete pitches at four different levels across their vocal range. While the locations of the larynx motor activations varied across singers, the activation peaks for the four pitch levels were highly consistent within each individual singer. This result was corroborated using multi-voxel pattern analysis, which demonstrated an absence of patterned activations differentiating any pairing of pitch levels. The complex and nonlinear relationships between the multiple laryngeal muscles that control vocal pitch may obscure the neural encoding of vocal pitch in the brain.
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- Michel Belyk
- Bloorview Research Institute, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences and Center for Brain Injury, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Busan P, Del Ben G, Bernardini S, Natarelli G, Bencich M, Monti F, Manganotti P, Battaglini PP. Altered Modulation of Silent Period in Tongue Motor Cortex of Persistent Developmental Stuttering in Relation to Stuttering Severity. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0163959. [PMID: 27711148 PMCID: PMC5053488 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0163959] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2016] [Accepted: 09/16/2016] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Motor balance in developmental stuttering (DS) was investigated with Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), with the aim to define novel neural markers of persistent DS in adulthood. Eleven DS adult males were evaluated with TMS on tongue primary motor cortex, compared to 15 matched fluent speakers, in a “state” condition (i.e. stutterers vs. fluent speakers, no overt stuttering). Motor and silent period thresholds (SPT), recruitment curves, and silent period durations were acquired by recording tongue motor evoked potentials. Tongue silent period duration was increased in DS, especially in the left hemisphere (P<0.05; Hedge’s g or Cohen’s dunbiased = 1.054, i.e. large effect size), suggesting a “state” condition of higher intracortical inhibition in left motor cortex networks. Differences in motor thresholds (different excitatory/inhibitory ratios in DS) were evident, as well as significant differences in SPT. In fluent speakers, the left hemisphere may be marginally more excitable than the right one in motor thresholds at lower muscular activation, while active motor thresholds and SPT were higher in the left hemisphere of DS with respect to the right one, resulting also in a positive correlation with stuttering severity. Pre-TMS electromyography data gave overlapping evidence. Findings suggest the existence of a complex intracortical balance in DS tongue primary motor cortex, with a particular interplay between excitatory and inhibitory mechanisms, also in neural substrates related to silent periods. Findings are discussed with respect to functional and structural impairments in stuttering, and are also proposed as novel neural markers of a stuttering “state” in persistent DS, helping to define more focused treatments (e.g. neuro-modulation).
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- Pierpaolo Busan
- IRCCS Fondazione Ospedale San Camillo, Venice, Italy
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- B.R.A.I.N. Center for Neuroscience, Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy
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- Department of Developmental and Social Psychology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
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- B.R.A.I.N. Center for Neuroscience, Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy
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- Department of Medical, Surgical and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy
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- Department of Medical, Surgical and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy
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- B.R.A.I.N. Center for Neuroscience, Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy
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