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Root V, Muret D, Arribas M, Amoruso E, Thornton J, Tarall-Jozwiak A, Tracey I, Makin TR. Complex pattern of facial remapping in somatosensory cortex following congenital but not acquired hand loss. eLife 2022; 11:76158. [PMID: 36583538 PMCID: PMC9851617 DOI: 10.7554/elife.76158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2021] [Accepted: 12/29/2022] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Cortical remapping after hand loss in the primary somatosensory cortex (S1) is thought to be predominantly dictated by cortical proximity, with adjacent body parts remapping into the deprived area. Traditionally, this remapping has been characterised by changes in the lip representation, which is assumed to be the immediate neighbour of the hand based on electrophysiological research in non-human primates. However, the orientation of facial somatotopy in humans is debated, with contrasting work reporting both an inverted and upright topography. We aimed to fill this gap in the S1 homunculus by investigating the topographic organisation of the face. Using both univariate and multivariate approaches we examined the extent of face-to-hand remapping in individuals with a congenital and acquired missing hand (hereafter one-handers and amputees, respectively), relative to two-handed controls. Participants were asked to move different facial parts (forehead, nose, lips, tongue) during functional MRI (fMRI) scanning. We first confirmed an upright face organisation in all three groups, with the upper-face and not the lips bordering the hand area. We further found little evidence for remapping of both forehead and lips in amputees, with no significant relationship to the chronicity of their phantom limb pain (PLP). In contrast, we found converging evidence for a complex pattern of face remapping in congenital one-handers across multiple facial parts, where relative to controls, the location of the cortical neighbour - the forehead - is shown to shift away from the deprived hand area, which is subsequently more activated by the lips and the tongue. Together, our findings demonstrate that the face representation in humans is highly plastic, but that this plasticity is restricted by the developmental stage of input deprivation, rather than cortical proximity.
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- Victoria Root
- WIN Centre, University of OxfordOxfordUnited Kingdom
- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College LondonLondonUnited Kingdom
- Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (CBU), University of CambridgeCambridgeUnited Kingdom
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- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College LondonLondonUnited Kingdom
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- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College LondonLondonUnited Kingdom
- Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College LondonLondonUnited Kingdom
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- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College LondonLondonUnited Kingdom
- Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (CBU), University of CambridgeCambridgeUnited Kingdom
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College LondonLondonUnited Kingdom
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- WIN Centre, University of OxfordOxfordUnited Kingdom
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- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College LondonLondonUnited Kingdom
- Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (CBU), University of CambridgeCambridgeUnited Kingdom
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College LondonLondonUnited Kingdom
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Magnetoencephalographic evaluation of repaired lip sensation in patients with cleft lip. PLoS One 2022; 17:e0274405. [PMID: 36137110 PMCID: PMC9498931 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0274405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2021] [Accepted: 08/26/2022] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
Abstract
Background
Cleft lip is the most common congenital anomaly worldwide. Nevertheless, lip somatosensory characteristics of patients with cleft lip after cheiloplasty have not yet been determined. The present study used magnetoencephalography to objectively evaluate the lip sensation in patients with unilateral cleft lip to establish a new objective evaluation method.
Methods
Participants were 15 patients with unilateral cleft lip after cheiloplasty (UCL group), and 30 healthy young subjects (control group). Five points of the upper and lower lips were stimulated electrically to measure somatosensory evoked magnetic fields (SEFs). The sources of the magnetic fields were modeled as single equivalent current dipoles (ECDs). ECDs located on the central sulcus by superimposition on magnetic resonance images were analyzed. Latency and intensity at 50–75 ms (cP60m) observed in the UCL group were compared with those in the control group. Thresholds of tactile stimuli in both groups were obtained using Semmes–Weinstein monofilaments for subjective sensory evaluation.
Results
No significant difference was found in the intensity of the cP60m or subjective evaluation between the groups. However, the latency of the cP60m was significantly longer in the upper lip of the UCL group than in the control group.
Conclusions
SEFs showed a difference in lip sensation between the UCL group and the control group, suggesting that longer latency might be caused by the effects of surgical scarring on the neurotransmission pathway. These results suggest SEFs as useful for the objective evaluation of lip sensations. This study might improve future surgical procedures and lip functions of patients with cleft lip.
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Somatosensory Evoked Magnetic Fields Induced by Electrical Palate Stimulation in Patients with Unilateral Cleft Lip and Palate after Palatoplasty. Neurosci Res 2022; 184:30-37. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2022.08.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2022] [Revised: 06/17/2022] [Accepted: 08/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Importance of body representations in social-cognitive development: New insights from infant brain science. PROGRESS IN BRAIN RESEARCH 2020; 254:25-48. [PMID: 32859291 DOI: 10.1016/bs.pbr.2020.07.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/04/2022]
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There is significant interest in the ways the human body, both one's own and that of others, is represented in the human brain. In this chapter we focus on body representations in infancy and synthesize relevant findings from both infant cognitive neuroscience and behavioral experiments. We review six experiments in infant neuroscience that have used novel EEG and MEG methods to explore infant neural body maps. We then consider results from behavioral studies of social imitation and examine what they contribute to our understanding of infant body representations at a psychological level. Finally, we interweave both neuroscience and behavioral lines of research to ground new theoretical claims about early infant social cognition. We propose, based on the evidence, that young infants can represent the bodily acts of others and their own bodily acts in commensurate terms. Infants initially recognize correspondences between self and other-they perceive that others are "like me" in terms of bodies and bodily actions. This capacity for registering and using self-other equivalence mappings has far-reaching implications for mechanisms of developmental change. Infants can learn about the affordances and powers of their own body by watching adults' actions and their causal consequences. Reciprocally, infants can enrich their understanding of other people's internal states by taking into account the way they themselves feel when they perform similar acts. The faces, bodies, and matching actions of people are imbued with unique meaning because they can be mapped to the infant's own body and behavior.
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Meltzoff AN, Saby JN, Marshall PJ. Neural representations of the body in 60-day-old human infants. Dev Sci 2018; 22:e12698. [PMID: 29938877 DOI: 10.1111/desc.12698] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2018] [Revised: 04/23/2018] [Accepted: 05/15/2018] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The organization of body representations in the adult brain has been well documented. Little is understood about this aspect of brain organization in human infancy. The current study employed electroencephalography (EEG) with 60-day-old infants to test the distribution of brain responses to tactile stimulation of three different body parts: hand, foot, and lip. Analyses focused on a prominent positive response occurring at 150-200 ms in the somatosensory evoked potential at central and parietal electrode sites. The results show differential electrophysiological signatures for touch of these three body parts. Stimulation of the left hand was associated with greater positive amplitude over the lateral central region contralateral to the side stimulated. Left foot stimulation was associated with greater positivity over the midline parietal site. Stimulation of the midline of the upper lip was associated with a strong bilateral response over the central region. These findings provide new insights into the neural representation of the body in infancy and shed light on research and theories about the involvement of somatosensory cortex in infant imitation and social perception.
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- Andrew N Meltzoff
- Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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- Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Shinagawa H, Ono T, Honda EI, Kurabayashi T, Iriki A, Ohyama K. Distinctive Cortical Articulatory Representation in Cleft Lip and Palate: A Preliminary Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study. Cleft Palate Craniofac J 2017; 43:620-4. [PMID: 16986981 DOI: 10.1597/05-027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Objective: To investigate cortical representation of articulation of the bilabial plosive in patients with cleft lip and palate. Design: We examined cortical representation for /pa/-articulation in cleft lip and palate patients using blood oxygenation level–dependent functional magnetic resonance imaging. Subjects: Data from four postsurgical adult cleft lip and palate patients were compared with those from six healthy volunteers. Results: Activation foci were found in the bilateral primary sensorimotor cortex in all cleft lip and palate patients, as in the controls. The sensorimotor cortex ipsilateral to the side of cleft lip and palate showed greater activation in unilateral cleft lip and palate patients, whereas the sensorimotor cortex contralateral to the side on which cheiloplasty had been performed earlier showed greater activation in a bilateral cleft lip and palate patient. Conclusions: The results suggest that there may be an ipsilateral dominance in cortical representation during bilabial articulation to the side of the cleft in the upper lip.
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- Hideo Shinagawa
- Maxillofacial Orthognathics, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan
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Hihara H, Kanetaka H, Kanno A, Koeda S, Nakasato N, Kawashima R, Sasaki K. Evaluating age-related change in lip somatosensation using somatosensory evoked magnetic fields. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0179323. [PMID: 28617862 PMCID: PMC5472294 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0179323] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2016] [Accepted: 05/26/2017] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Somatosensory evoked fields (SEFs) to electrical stimulation on the right and left sides of the lower lip were measured using magnetoencephalography and compared in the bilateral hemispheres of 31 healthy normal young and 29 healthy normal elderly subjects to evaluate age-related change in lip somatosensation. The initial peak of the response around 13 ms, designated as N13m, and the second peak of the response, designated as P21m, were investigated. The N13m response, which was detected in 22 of 62 hemispheres in young adults and 37 of 58 hemispheres in elderly adults, showed significantly prolonged latency and increased equivalent current dipole (ECD) moment in the elderly adults. The P21m response, which was detected in 56 of 62 hemispheres in young adults and in 52 of 58 hemispheres in elderly adults, showed longer peak latency in the elderly adults. No significant difference was found in the ECD moment for P21m, which suggests that aging affected the SEFs of the lip somatosensation, but the effects of aging on N13m and P21m differed. Prolonged latency and increased ECD moment of N13m might result from decreased peripheral conduction and increased cortical excitation system associated with aging. Therefore, the initial response component might be an objective parameter for investigating change in lip function with age.
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- Hiroki Hihara
- Division of Advanced Prosthetic Dentistry, Tohoku University Graduate School of Dentistry, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
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- Liaison Center for Innovative Dentistry, Tohoku University Graduate School of Dentistry, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
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- Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
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- Graduate School of Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Epileptology, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
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- Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
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- Division of Advanced Prosthetic Dentistry, Tohoku University Graduate School of Dentistry, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
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Bessho H, Shibukawa Y, Shintani M, Yajima Y, Suzuki T, Shibahara T. Localization of Palatal Area in Human Somatosensory Cortex. J Dent Res 2016; 86:265-70. [PMID: 17314260 DOI: 10.1177/154405910708600313] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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To determine the ’hard palate representing’ area in the primary somatosensory cortex, we recorded somatosensory-evoked magnetic fields from the cortex in ten healthy volunteers, using magnetoencephalography. Following electrical stimulation of 3 sites on the hard palate (the first and third transverse palatine ridges, and the greater palatine foramen), magnetic responses showed peak latencies of 15, 65, and 125 ms. Equivalent current dipoles for early magnetic responses were found along the posterior wall of the inferior part of the central sulcus. These dipoles were localized anterior-inferiorly, compared with locations for the hand area in the cortex. However, there were no significant differences in three-dimensional locations among the 3 selected regions for hard palate stimulation. These results demonstrated the precise location of palatal representation in the primary somatosensory cortex, the actual area being small.
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- H Bessho
- Oral Health Science Center, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Tokyo Dental College, Chiba, Japan.
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Muret D, Daligault S, Dinse HR, Delpuech C, Mattout J, Reilly KT, Farnè A. Neuromagnetic correlates of adaptive plasticity across the hand-face border in human primary somatosensory cortex. J Neurophysiol 2016; 115:2095-104. [PMID: 26888099 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00628.2015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2015] [Accepted: 02/16/2016] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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It is well established that permanent or transient reduction of somatosensory inputs, following hand deafferentation or anesthesia, induces plastic changes across the hand-face border, supposedly responsible for some altered perceptual phenomena such as tactile sensations being referred from the face to the phantom hand. It is also known that transient increase of hand somatosensory inputs, via repetitive somatosensory stimulation (RSS) at a fingertip, induces local somatosensory discriminative improvement accompanied by cortical representational changes in the primary somatosensory cortex (SI). We recently demonstrated that RSS at the tip of the right index finger induces similar training-independent perceptual learning across the hand-face border, improving somatosensory perception at the lips (Muret D, Dinse HR, Macchione S, Urquizar C, Farnè A, Reilly KT.Curr Biol24: R736-R737, 2014). Whether neural plastic changes across the hand-face border accompany such remote and adaptive perceptual plasticity remains unknown. Here we used magnetoencephalography to investigate the electrophysiological correlates underlying RSS-induced behavioral changes across the hand-face border. The results highlight significant changes in dipole location after RSS both for the stimulated finger and for the lips. These findings reveal plastic changes that cross the hand-face border after an increase, instead of a decrease, in somatosensory inputs.
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- Dollyane Muret
- ImpAct Team, Lyon Neuroscience Research Centre, INSERM U1028, CNRS UMR5292, Lyon, France; University Claude Bernard Lyon I, Lyon, France;
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- Neural Plasticity Laboratory, Institute of Neuroinformatics, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany; Clinic of Neurology, BG University Hospital Bergmannsheil, Bochum, Germany; and
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- University Claude Bernard Lyon I, Lyon, France; Dycog Team, Lyon Neuroscience Research Centre, INSERM U1028, CNRS UMR5292, Lyon, France
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- ImpAct Team, Lyon Neuroscience Research Centre, INSERM U1028, CNRS UMR5292, Lyon, France; University Claude Bernard Lyon I, Lyon, France
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- ImpAct Team, Lyon Neuroscience Research Centre, INSERM U1028, CNRS UMR5292, Lyon, France; University Claude Bernard Lyon I, Lyon, France
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Somatosensory evoked magnetic fields following tongue and hard palate stimulation on the preferred chewing side. J Neurol Sci 2014; 347:288-94. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2014.10.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2014] [Revised: 09/22/2014] [Accepted: 10/14/2014] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Evaluation of lip sensory disturbance using somatosensory evoked magnetic fields. Clin Neurophysiol 2014; 125:363-9. [DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2013.07.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2013] [Revised: 07/15/2013] [Accepted: 07/31/2013] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Otsuka T, Dan H, Dan I, Sase M, Sano T, Tsuzuki D, Fujita A, Sasaguri K, Okada N, Kusama M, Jinbu Y, Watanabe E. Effect of local anesthesia on trigeminal somatosensory-evoked magnetic fields. J Dent Res 2012; 91:1196-201. [PMID: 23018817 DOI: 10.1177/0022034512462398] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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For objective neurophysiological evaluation of the function of the trigeminal system, magnetoencephalography- based TSEF (trigeminal somatosensory-evoked field) assessment would be valuable in providing spatial and temporal profiles of cortical responses. However, this necessitates knowledge of how TSEF varies with trigeminal nerve dysfunctions. We introduced a conduction block of the trigeminal nerve using local anesthesia (lidocaine) to temporally mimic nerve dysfunctions, and monitored TSEF changes. Following an electrical stimulation of the lower lip, a magnetic response with peak latency of approximately 20 ms was identified in all participants. Dipole for the peak was estimated on the post-central gyrus in the participant's own magnetic resonance image. After normalization to Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI) space and inter-participant data integration, the summary equivalent current dipole localization among participants remained in the post-central gyrus, suggesting validity of the use of MNI space. Partial anesthesia of the lower lip led to a loss of the waveform characteristics of TSEF for electrical stimulation to the trigeminal nerve. We verified that the 20-ms latency cortical response of TSEF components localized at the primary sensory cortex can serve as a robust neurofunctional marker of experimental trigeminal nerve dysfunction.
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- T Otsuka
- Department of Craniofacial Growth and Developmental Dentistry, Kanagawa Dental College, 82 Inaoka-cho, Yokosuka, Kanagawa 238-8580, Japan
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Noninvasive neuroimaging aids in surgical planning and in counseling patients about possible risks of surgery. Magnetoencephalography (MEG) performs the most common types of surgical planning that the neurosurgeon faces, including localization of epileptic discharges, determination of the hemispheric dominance of verbal processing, and the ability to locate eloquent cortex. MEG is most useful when it is combined with structural imaging, most commonly with structural magnetic resonance (MR) imaging and MR diffusion imaging. This article reviews the history of clinical MEG, introduces the basic concepts about the biophysics of MEG, and outlines the basic neurosurgical applications of MEG.
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- Steven M Stufflebeam
- Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA.
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Alonso AA, Koutlas IG, Leuthold AC, Lewis SM, Georgopoulos AP. Cortical processing of facial tactile stimuli in temporomandibular disorder as revealed by magnetoencephalography. Exp Brain Res 2010; 204:33-45. [DOI: 10.1007/s00221-010-2291-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2010] [Accepted: 05/04/2010] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Zumer JM, Nagarajan SS, Krubitzer LA, Zhu Z, Turner RS, Disbrow EA. MEG in the macaque monkey and human: distinguishing cortical fields in space and time. Brain Res 2010; 1345:110-24. [PMID: 20493828 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2010.05.037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2010] [Revised: 05/01/2010] [Accepted: 05/12/2010] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Magnetoencephalography (MEG) is an increasingly popular non-invasive tool used to record, on a millisecond timescale, the magnetic field changes generated by cortical neural activity. MEG has the advantage, over fMRI for example, that it is a direct measure of neural activity. In the current investigation we used MEG to measure cortical responses to tactile and auditory stimuli in the macaque monkey. We had two aims. First, we sought to determine whether MEG, a technique that may have low spatial accuracy, could be used to distinguish the location and organization of sensory cortical fields in macaque monkeys, a species with a relatively small brain compared to that of the human. Second, we wanted to examine the temporal dynamics of cortical responses in the macaque monkey relative to the human. We recorded MEG data from anesthetized monkeys and, for comparison, from awake humans that were presented with simple tactile and auditory stimuli. Neural source reconstruction of MEG data showed that primary somatosensory and auditory cortex could be differentiated and, further, that separate representations of the digit and lip within somatosensory cortex could be identified in macaque monkeys as well as humans. We compared the latencies of activity from monkey and human data for the three stimulation types and proposed a correspondence between the neural responses of the two species. We thus demonstrate the feasibility of using MEG in the macaque monkey and provide a non-human primate model for examining the relationship between external evoked magnetic fields and their underlying neural sources.
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- Johanna M Zumer
- Department of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
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Somatosensory evoked magnetic fields following electric tongue stimulation using pin electrodes. Neurosci Res 2008; 62:131-9. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2008.07.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2008] [Revised: 07/08/2008] [Accepted: 07/11/2008] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Tamura Y, Shibukawa Y, Shintani M, Kaneko Y, Ichinohe T. Oral structure representation in human somatosensory cortex. Neuroimage 2008; 43:128-35. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.06.040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2008] [Revised: 06/05/2008] [Accepted: 06/20/2008] [Indexed: 10/21/2022] Open
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Nevalainen P, Lauronen L, Haapanen ML, Isotalo E. Somatosensory-evoked magnetic fields in examining lip area in speech-disordered children. J Craniofac Surg 2008; 19:1215-20. [PMID: 18812843 DOI: 10.1097/scs.0b013e31818433ff] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Magnetoencephalography (MEG) is a modern neurophysiological method to study brain activation after sensory stimulation. We aimed at determining the feasibility of MEG and somatosensory-evoked magnetic fields (SEFs) in assessing the lip area in speech-disordered children undergoing oral plate therapy (OPTH) to improve their articulation. Seven subjects (age range, 6-11 years) participated in the study. The speech was perceptually assessed, and the SEFs to tactile stimulation of the lip area were recorded before and after OPTH. Two patients did not attend the posttreatment MEG recording. Clinical perceptual analysis showed remarkable improvement of speech of the studied children after OPTH. Somatosensory-evoked magnetic fields were successfully recorded in 4 of these children, but no constant changes in the responses were found after the therapy.With this small number of patients, the possible modifications in the functioning of the cortical somatosensory area of the lip after OPTH remained undetected. The present method is, however, technically applicable in studying cortical responses to lip stimulation in speech-disordered children. Further studies using stimulation inside the mouth may provide more insight to the cortical effects of OPTH.
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- Päivi Nevalainen
- BioMag Laboratory, Helsinki University Central Hospital, HUSLAB, Helsinki, Finland
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Sakamoto K, Nakata H, Kakigi R. Somatosensory-evoked magnetic fields following stimulation of the tongue in humans. Clin Neurophysiol 2008; 119:1664-73. [DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2008.03.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2007] [Revised: 02/26/2008] [Accepted: 03/25/2008] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Iida T, Fenwick PBC, Ioannides AA. Analysis of brain activity immediately before conscious teeth clenching using magnetoencephalographic method. J Oral Rehabil 2007; 34:487-96. [PMID: 17559616 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2842.2007.01736.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The reasons for unconscious teeth clenching have not been clarified. The long-term goal of our project was the elucidation of processing in the brain immediately before unconscious teeth clenching, in order to clarify its significance in humans. The objective of the present study was to establish a magnetoencephalographic (MEG) method of measuring brain activity immediately before clenching, and to clarify the time-course of brain activity immediately before conscious clenching. We measured the MEG signal in six subjects before, during and after clenching in a protocol that restricted head movement <5 mm. We derived tomographic estimates of brain activity for each time slice of data, as well as time courses for regional brain activations. Analysis of the tomographic images and time courses yielded statistical maps of activity in the motor, pre-motor and somatosensory cortices immediately before clenching in all subjects. Activations were found bilaterally, but with a strong unilateral bias in most subjects. Our results demonstrate that the MEG procedures, we have introduced are capable of measuring brain activity immediately before clenching, and indicate that analysis should begin from at least 200 ms before electromyogram onset.
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- T Iida
- Clinical Pathology, Nihon University Graduate School of Dentistry at Matsudo, Matsudo, Chiba, Japan.
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Nevalainen P, Ramstad R, Isotalo E, Haapanen ML, Lauronen L. Trigeminal somatosensory evoked magnetic fields to tactile stimulation. Clin Neurophysiol 2006; 117:2007-15. [PMID: 16859989 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2006.05.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2005] [Revised: 05/08/2006] [Accepted: 05/21/2006] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To characterise the activation of the contra- and ipsilateral primary somatosensory cortex (SI) after tactile stimulation of the face. METHODS Trigeminal somatosensory evoked magnetic fields (TSEFs) were recorded after tactile stimulation of the lower lip, cheek, chin and forehead in 11 healthy subjects. The responses were determined visually from the waveforms and modelled with equivalent current dipoles (ECDs). RESULTS Contralateral SI responses were evoked in all subjects after lip stimulation, and in 91% and 64% after right and left cheek, 73% and 82% after chin and 64% and 27% after forehead stimulation. The responses usually showed an early double-peak wave pattern, the underlying sources localising to the SI. In addition, altogether 37 ipsilateral SI responses were evoked in eight subjects. Fourteen of these responses were amenable to ECD modelling and localised to ipsilateral SI. CONCLUSIONS Tactile stimulation of the lip area reliably activates the contralateral SI in normal subjects, but the success rate for other trigeminal areas is lower. Ipsilateral responses can be present after stimulation of any of the trigeminal branches in normal subjects. SIGNIFICANCE Recording of TSEFs after tactile stimulation of particularly the lip area provides a non-invasive technique to study the function of the trigeminal nerve.
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- P Nevalainen
- BioMag Laboratory, Helsinki University Central Hospital, P.O. Box 340, FIN-00029 HUS, Finland
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Nguyen BT, Inui K, Hoshiyama M, Nakata H, Kakigi R. Face representation in the human secondary somatosensory cortex. Clin Neurophysiol 2005; 116:1247-53. [PMID: 15978486 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2005.01.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2004] [Revised: 01/11/2005] [Accepted: 01/20/2005] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To investigate the somatotopic organization of the facial skin area in the secondary somatosensory cortex (SII) in humans. METHODS Somatosensory evoked magnetic fields following air-puff stimulation of 5 body sites, the foot, the lip and 3 points of the facial skin (forehead, cheek and mandibular angle point), were recorded. We focused on activities in SII following stimulation of these 5 sites and compared dipole locations among them. RESULTS There was a clear somatotopic organization in SII with lip in the most lateral area, foot in the most medial area and face in an intermediate area close to the lip area. However, there was no significant difference of dipole localization in SII among the 3 areas of facial skin, similar to the overlapped somatotopic organization of facial skin areas in the primary somatosensory cortex in our previous study. CONCLUSIONS The facial skin areas are considered to occupy a small area in SII with insufficient spatial separation to differentiate each area of facial skin even using magnetoencephalography which has a high spatial resolution. SIGNIFICANCE This is the first systematic study of the activated regions in SII following stimulation of the facial skin.
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- Binh T Nguyen
- Department of Integrative Physiology, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki 444-8585, Japan.
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Suzuki T, Shibukawa Y, Kumai T, Shintani M. Face area representation of primary somatosensory cortex in humans identified by whole-head magnetoencephalography. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2005; 54:161-9. [PMID: 15182423 DOI: 10.2170/jjphysiol.54.161] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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The feasibility of precise mapping was investigated noninvasively on the face component in predominantly unilateral primary somatosensory cortices (SI) in six healthy subjects. We recorded somatosensory evoked magnetic fields (SEFs) from the SI and secondary somatosensory cortices (SII) following the electrical stimulation of six skin sites: the infraorbital foramen, the angle of mouth, the upper lip, the lower lip, the mental foramen, and the mandibular angle. The median nerve at the wrist was stimulated as a standard of the map. The location of the equivalent current dipoles (ECDs) estimated from the distribution of magnetic fields was identified on MR images of the brain on each subject. The ECDs of the early components of SEF with peaks of 20-30 ms aligned along the SI in the hemisphere contralateral to the stimulation site. Late components with peaks of 80-150 ms were recorded from the bilateral hemispheres, and their ECDs were identified in the SII of the bilateral hemispheres. There was a distinct separation between the ECD locations representing discrete sites on the face and thumb in the SI of the contralateral hemisphere. Five sites of the face area in SI at the contralateral hemisphere were compatible with the conventional arrangement of homunculus in one subject. However, the remaining subjects had variations in the arrangement. The face area reorganization in the SI is possible to be related to the use-dependent cortical plasticity of the individual or to the perceptual experience by vision and proprioception.
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- Takashi Suzuki
- Oral Health Science Center, Tokyo Dental College, Chiba, 261-8502 Japan.
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Nguyen BT, Tran TD, Hoshiyama M, Inui K, Kakigi R. Face representation in the human primary somatosensory cortex. Neurosci Res 2004; 50:227-32. [PMID: 15380330 DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2004.07.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2004] [Accepted: 07/05/2004] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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To investigate the representation of facial skin areas in the primary somatosensory cortex (SI), we recorded magnetic fields evoked by air pressure-induced tactile stimulation applied to six points on the face, lower lip and thumb. The thumb area in the SI was located more medial and superior to the lip area, which was consistent with Penfield's homunculus. However, the representations of all skin-covered areas including forehead, cheek, nose and chin in the SI were located between the thumb and lower lip area. There was no significant difference in location among the six facial points. Our results imply that lips occupy a large area of the face representation in the SI, whereas only a small area located between the thumb and lip areas is devoted to skin-covered surfaces. This is the first study showing that the facial skin areas in the human SI are located between the thumb and lower lip areas and close together.
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- Binh T Nguyen
- Department of Integrative Physiology, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki 444-8585, Japan.
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Nakahara H, Nakasato N, Kanno A, Murayama S, Hatanaka K, Itoh H, Yoshimoto T. Somatosensory-evoked fields for gingiva, lip, and tongue. J Dent Res 2004; 83:307-11. [PMID: 15044504 DOI: 10.1177/154405910408300407] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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To localize the oral primary somatosensory cortex, we measured somatosensory-evoked fields for the lip, gingiva, and tongue in six healthy subjects. The latency of the first peak of the posterior-oriented current in the contralateral hemisphere was 50.9 +/- 8.3 ms for the gingiva, significantly shorter than those for the lip and tongue peaks. The equivalent current dipole was localized on the central sulcus. The gingival dipole was localized significantly inferior to the lip dipole but not different from the tongue dipole. The moment of the gingival dipole was significantly smaller than that of the lip dipole but not different from that of the tongue dipole. Differences in the above parameters were negligible between the left and right, anterior and posterior, and upper and lower locations within the same organ, except that the dipole location for the anterior upper tongue was significantly inferior to that for the lower tongue.
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- H Nakahara
- Dental Division, Miyagi National Hospital, Miyagi, Japan
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Komssi S, Huttunen J, Aronen HJ, Ilmoniemi RJ. EEG minimum-norm estimation compared with MEG dipole fitting in the localization of somatosensory sources at S1. Clin Neurophysiol 2004; 115:534-42. [PMID: 15036048 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2003.10.034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/30/2003] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Dipole models, which are frequently used in attempts to solve the electromagnetic inverse problem, require explicit a priori assumptions about the cerebral current sources. This is not the case for solutions based on minimum-norm estimates. In the present study, we evaluated the spatial accuracy of the L2 minimum-norm estimate (MNE) in realistic noise conditions by assessing its ability to localize sources of evoked responses at the primary somatosensory cortex (SI). METHODS Multichannel somatosensory evoked potentials (SEPs) and magnetic fields (SEFs) were recorded in 5 subjects while stimulating the median and ulnar nerves at the left wrist. A Tikhonov-regularized L2-MNE, constructed on a spherical surface from the SEP signals, was compared with an equivalent current dipole (ECD) solution obtained from the SEFs. RESULTS Primarily tangential current sources accounted for both SEP and SEF distributions at around 20 ms (N20/N20m) and 70 ms (P70/P70m), which deflections were chosen for comparative analysis. The distances between the locations of the maximum current densities obtained from MNE and the locations of ECDs were on the average 12-13 mm for both deflections and nerves stimulated. In accordance with the somatotopical order of SI, both the MNE and ECD tended to localize median nerve activation more laterally than ulnar nerve activation for the N20/N20m deflection. Simulation experiments further indicated that, with a proper estimate of the source depth and with a good fit of the head model, the MNE can reach a mean accuracy of 5 mm in 0.2-microV root-mean-square noise. CONCLUSIONS When compared with previously reported localizations based on dipole modelling of SEPs, it appears that equally accurate localization of S1 can be obtained with the MNE. SIGNIFICANCE MNE can be used to verify parametric source modelling results. Having a relatively good localization accuracy and requiring minimal assumptions, the MNE may be useful for the localization of poorly known activity distributions and for tracking activity changes between brain areas as a function of time.
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- S Komssi
- Helsinki Brain Research Center, Helsinki, Finland.
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Disbrow EA, Hinkley LBN, Roberts TPL. Ipsilateral representation of oral structures in human anterior parietal somatosensory cortex and integration of inputs across the midline. J Comp Neurol 2004; 467:487-95. [PMID: 14624483 DOI: 10.1002/cne.10935] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Anterior parietal somatosensory areas 3a, 3b, 1, and 2 generally contain cells with receptive fields that are on the contralateral body. However, inputs from midline structures such as the mouth must be uniquely integrated across the midline. This hypothesis is supported by studies of these fields from nonhuman primates that demonstrate ipsilateral representations of oral structures. We used magnetoencephalography (MEG) to examine the cortical representations of the lips and tongue in humans and to examine the time course of interaction of bilateral inputs from these structures. Ipsilateral activation was observed in response to tactile stimulation of the upper lip in 69% of cases, the lower lip in 85% of cases, and the tongue in 88% of cases. In the contralateral hemisphere, the map of oral structures tended to be in agreement with that from nonhuman primates, although variation was large and source locations were not statistically significantly different from each other. There were no differences in latency of activation for ipsi-vs. contralateral responses (about 30 msec), and cortical sources from ipsi-and contralateral stimulation tended to be located together. Differential activation for bilateral vs. unilateral stimulation occurred later than activation in S1, around 110 msec, and was localized to the upper bank of the Sylvian sulcus. Our findings indicate that, unlike nonhuman primates, humans have an ipsilateral representation of the lips in 3b/1, possibly related to the precise manipulation necessary for the articulation of speech. The distinct pattern of differential activation for uni-vs. bilateral stimulation suggests a unique neural mechanism of integration across the midline for inputs from the mouth.
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- Elizabeth A Disbrow
- Department of Neurology, Center for Neuroscience, University of California, Davis, Davis, California 95616, USA.
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Nihashi T, Kakigi R, Hoshiyama M, Miki K, Kajita Y, Yoshida J, Yatsuya H. Effect of tactile interference stimulation of the ear in human primary somatosensory cortex: a magnetoencephalographic study. Clin Neurophysiol 2003; 114:1866-78. [PMID: 14499748 DOI: 10.1016/s1388-2457(03)00175-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To confirm the somatotopic representation of the ear in the primary somatosensory cortex (SI), we studied the tactile interference effects on somatosensory evoked magnetic fields (SEFs) following stimulation of the ear (Helix, Lobulus and Tragus). METHODS We applied tactile interference stimulation to the neck or face area continuously and concurrently while a time-locked electrical stimulation was applied to the ear. If the amplitude would be reduced by the interference, this would indicate that the cortical representation for both the time-locked electrical stimulation and the continuous interference stimulation overlapped. A two or 3-source model, Source 1 in the neck area of SI, Source 2 in the face area of SI, and Source 3 in the secondary somatosensory cortex (SII), was found to be the most appropriate by brain electric source analysis (BESA). RESULTS Amplitudes of Sources 1 and 2 in most interference conditions were decreased. Source 1 following stimulation of all 3 sites was significantly reduced when the interference was applied to the neck area. Source 2 following stimulation of all 3 sites was significantly reduced when the interference was applied to the face area. CONCLUSIONS These findings showed that the interference effect was found in both the neck and face areas of SI following the ear stimulation. SIGNIFICANCE The representation of the ear in SI might be located in both the neck and face areas.
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- T Nihashi
- Department of Integrative Physiology, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Myodaiji, 444-8585, Okazaki, Japan.
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Kanno A, Nakasato N, Hatanaka K, Yoshimoto T. Ipsilateral area 3b responses to median nerve somatosensory stimulation. Neuroimage 2003; 18:169-77. [PMID: 12507453 DOI: 10.1006/nimg.2002.1283] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Magnetoencephalography investigation of the somatosensory evoked fields for median nerve stimulation detected ipsilateral area 3b responses in 18 hemispheres of 14 (1 normal subject and 13 patients with brain diseases) among 482 consecutive subjects. The major three peaks in the ipsilateral response were named iP50m, iN75m, and iP100m, based on the current orientation in the posterior, anterior, and posterior directions and the latency of 52.7 +/- 6.2, 74.1 +/- 9.4, and 100.2 +/- 15.8 ms (mean +/- standard deviation), respectively. The moment of the iP50m dipole (9.4 +/- 5.7 nAm) was significantly smaller than that of the N20m dipole of the contralateral response (cN20m, 27.5 +/- 10.5 nAm, P < 0.0001). Dipoles of iP50m and cN20m were similarly localized on the posterior bank of the central sulcus. iP50m in the present study had the same current orientation as and peak latency similar to that of the first ipsilateral primary somatosensory response to lip stimulation in our previous report. Therefore, the somatosensory afferent pathway from the hand may reach directly to the ipsilateral area 3b at least in part of the human population.
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- Akitake Kanno
- Ryogo Center, Kohnan Hospital, 4-20-1 Nagamachi-minami, Taihaku-ku, Sendai, Japan
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Druschky K, Kaltenhäuser M, Hummel C, Druschky A, Huk WJ, Neundörfer B, Stefan H. Post-apoplectic reorganization of cortical areas processing passive movement and tactile stimulation--a neuromagnetic case study. Neuroreport 2002; 13:2581-6. [PMID: 12499872 DOI: 10.1097/00001756-200212200-00040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Magnetoencephalography (MEG) was used in a patient with right centro-parietal stroke to investigate the cortical processing of tactile pneumatic stimulation and passive movement of the impaired left and unaffected right-hand index finger. Source localization of somatosensory evoked magnetic fields (SEF) recorded 2 weeks after infarction demonstrated a spatial displacement of the contralateral SI generators in the affected hemisphere. The distance between SI sources activated by either stimulation technique was noticeably enlarged in comparison to the left hemisphere and to previous data from 12 healthy subjects. Follow-up MEG after 6 months revealed a closer spatial arrangement of the two modality-specific SEF generators and a diminution of the interhemispheric asymmetry of proprioception-related SI sources. The topographical alterations were accompanied by clear clinical improvement of both joint position sense and tactile sensation. The occurrence of ipsilateral SI activity following passive movement of only the impaired index finger might suggest a disinhibition of subthreshold, transcallosal excitatory pathways.
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- Katrin Druschky
- Division of Neuroradiology, Department of Neurosurgery; University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Schwabachanlage 6, 91054 Erlangen, Germany.
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Nihashi T, Kakigi R, Okada T, Sadato N, Kashikura K, Kajita Y, Yoshida J. Functional magnetic resonance imaging evidence for a representation of the ear in human primary somatosensory cortex: comparison with magnetoencephalography study. Neuroimage 2002; 17:1217-26. [PMID: 12414262 DOI: 10.1006/nimg.2002.1216] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Our previous study (T. Nihashi et al., 2001, Neuro- Image 13: 295-304), using magnetoencephalography (MEG), revealed somatotopy of the ear in the human primary somatosensory cortex (SI); that is, the signals following stimulation of the ear reach both the neck and face areas of the SI. However, since this was the first report on somatotopy of the ear in humans, we performed an fMRI activation study to confirm the somatotopic representation, and compared the electrical activity by MEG and the cerebral blood flow change by fMRI. We studied eight healthy subjects using 3-T MRI. We stimulated three parts of the left ear: the helix, the lobulus, and the tragus. First, we identified the location of the ear area in the SI based on our previous MEG study, in which equivalent current dipoles (ECDs) were located in the neck and/or face areas of the SI. Then, we determined the search volume as a sphere with a 15-mm radius, which was placed in the neck and/or face area. We analyzed whether or not fMRI activation occurred inside such spheres. Stimulation of the helix activated the neck area of the SI in four of eight subjects, and both the neck and face areas in two. No activation was observed in two subjects. Stimulation of the lobulus activated the neck area in one subject, the face area in two, both in four, and neither in one. Stimulation of the tragus activated the face in four, both in three, and neither in one. These fMRI findings confirm the result of MEG that the representation of the ear in the SI is separated into neck and face areas.
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- T Nihashi
- Department of Integrative Physiology, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, Japan.
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Nihashi T, Kakigi R, Kawakami O, Hoshiyama M, Itomi K, Nakanishi H, Kajita Y, Inao S, Yoshida J. Representation of the ear in human primary somatosensory cortex. Neuroimage 2001; 13:295-304. [PMID: 11162270 DOI: 10.1006/nimg.2000.0695] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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We studied 13 healthy subjects with a multichannel magnetoencephalography (MEG) system to investigate the somatotopic representation of the ear in the primary somatosensory cortex (SI). We stimulated three parts of the left ear: the helix, the lobulus, and the tragus. The somatosensory-evoked magnetic fields (SEFs) were successfully measured in 7 of 13 subjects. Short-latency responses were analyzed using both single dipole and multidipole models (brain electric source analysis, BESA). From the single dipole model, the equivalent current dipole (ECD) following the helix stimulation was estimated to be near the neck area of SI in all the subjects. In the lobulus stimulation, the ECDs were estimated around the neck area of SI in four subjects, in the face area in one subject, and in the deep white matter in two subjects. In the tragus stimulation, the ECDs were estimated around the neck area of SI in three subjects, in the hand area of SI in two subjects, and in the deep white matter in two subjects. When the ECDs were estimated to be located in unlikely sites (hand area and deep white matter), a two-dipole model, (1) the neck area of SI and (2) face area of SI, was found to be the most appropriate. Although this might be a preliminary study due to a relatively small number of subjects, it revealed that receptive fields of some part of the ear, such as the lobulus and tragus, might be present in both the neck and face areas of SI. These findings suggested that the "ear area" of SI has variability between subjects, unlike the other areas of SI, possibly because the ear is located on the border between the neck and face.
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- T Nihashi
- Department of Integrative Physiology, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, Japan
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Nagamatsu K, Nakasato N, Hatanaka K, Kanno A, Iwasaki M, Yoshimoto T. Neuromagnetic localization of N15, the initial cortical response to lip stimulus. Neuroreport 2001; 12:1-5. [PMID: 11201065 DOI: 10.1097/00001756-200101220-00008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The initial cortical response of the trigeminal somatosensory evoked magnetic fields was measured for electrical stimulation of the lower lip in eleven subjects. The stimulus frequency was 0.7 Hz and stimulus intensity was nine times sensory threshold. The initial contralateral response was detected in 20 hemispheres at a latency of 14.6+/-1.3 ms and was named N15m. The equivalent current dipole of N15m was localized at the posterior bank of the central sulcus with anterior-superior orientation, and inferior to the dipole of N20m for median nerve stimulation.
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- K Nagamatsu
- Department of Neurosurgery, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Tokyo, Japan
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Kakigi R, Hoshiyama M, Shimojo M, Naka D, Yamasaki H, Watanabe S, Xiang J, Maeda K, Lam K, Itomi K, Nakamura A. The somatosensory evoked magnetic fields. Prog Neurobiol 2000; 61:495-523. [PMID: 10748321 DOI: 10.1016/s0301-0082(99)00063-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 164] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Averaged magnetoencephalography (MEG) following somatosensory stimulation, somatosensory evoked magnetic field(s) (SEF), in humans are reviewed. The equivalent current dipole(s) (ECD) of the primary and the following middle-latency components of SEF following electrical stimulation within 80-100 ms are estimated in area 3b of the primary somatosensory cortex (SI), the posterior bank of the central sulcus, in the hemisphere contralateral to the stimulated site. Their sites are generally compatible with the homunculus which was reported by Penfield using direct cortical stimulation during surgery. SEF to passive finger movement is generated in area 3a or 2 of SI, unlike with electrical stimulation. Long-latency components with peaks of approximately 80-120 ms are recorded in the bilateral hemispheres and their ECD are estimated in the secondary somatosensory cortex (SII) in the bilateral hemispheres. We also summarized (1) the gating effects on SEF by interference tactile stimulation or movement applied to the stimulus site, (2) clinical applications of SEF in the fields of neurosurgery and neurology and (3) cortical plasticity (reorganization) of the SI. SEF specific to painful stimulation is also recorded following painful stimulation by CO(2) laser beam. Pain-specific components are recorded over 150 ms after the stimulus and their ECD are estimated in the bilateral SII and the limbic system. We introduced a newly-developed multi (12)-channel gradiometer system with the smallest and highest quality superconducting quantum interference device (micro-SQUID) available to non-invasively detect the magnetic fields of a human peripheral nerve. Clear nerve action fields (NAFs) were consistently recorded from all subjects.
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- R Kakigi
- Department of Integrative Physiology, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Japan.
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Gunji A, Kakigi R, Hoshiyama M. Spatiotemporal source analysis of vocalization-associated magnetic fields. BRAIN RESEARCH. COGNITIVE BRAIN RESEARCH 2000; 9:157-63. [PMID: 10729699 DOI: 10.1016/s0926-6410(99)00054-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The vocalization-related cortical fields (VRCF) following vowel vocalization were studied by magnetoencephalography (MEG) in eight normal subjects. A multiple-source model, BESA (Brain Electric Source Analysis), was applied to elucidate the generating mechanism of VRCF in the period from 150 ms before to 150 ms after the onset of vocalization. Six sources provided satisfactory solutions for VRCF activities during that period. Sources 1 and 2, which were activated from approximately 150 ms before the vocalization onset, were located in laryngeal motor areas of the left and right hemispheres, respectively. Sources 5 and 6 were located in the truncal motor area in each hemisphere, and they were very similar to sources 1 and 2 in terms of temporal change of activities. Sources 3 and 4 were located in the auditory cortices of the left and right hemispheres, respectively, and they appeared to be activated just after the vocalization onset. However, all six sources were temporally overlapped in the period approximately 0-100 ms after the vocalization onset. The present results suggested that the bilateral motor cortices, probably laryngeal and truncal areas, were activated just before the vocalization. We considered that the activities of the bilateral auditory areas after the vocalization were the response of the subject's central auditory system to his/her own voice. The motor and auditory activities were temporally overlapped, and BESA was very useful to separate the activities of each source.
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- A Gunji
- Department of Integrative Physiology, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Japan.
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Itomi K, Kakigi R, Maeda K, Hoshiyama M. Dermatome versus homunculus; detailed topography of the primary somatosensory cortex following trunk stimulation. Clin Neurophysiol 2000; 111:405-12. [PMID: 10699399 DOI: 10.1016/s1388-2457(99)00290-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Identification of a detailed topography of the receptive area for each of the thoracic dermatomes in humans using somatosensory evoked magnetic fields (SEF). METHODS We analyzed the location of the equivalent current dipole (ECD) of SEF following electrical stimulation of the skin at Th4, Th6, Th8, Th10 and Th12 dermatomes in 14 normal subjects. RESULTS Three deflections, M18, M25 and M40, were obtained within 60 ms of stimulation of Th6, Th8 and Th10 dermatomes. No consistent deflection could be identified following Th4 and Th12 dermatomal stimulation, probably due to a poor signal-to-noise ratio and difficulty in fixing the stimulation electrodes. M18 was absent or small in amplitude. The latency of M25 ranged from short to long in the order Th6, Th8 and Th10 (P<0.05). ECDs of all components for each site stimulation were located in the truncal area of the primary somatosensory cortex. Although the locations of the ECDs tend to be arranged from lateral to medial in the sequence Th6, Th8 and Th10, the difference was not significant. CONCLUSION The representation area of the trunk is small, and the receptive areas for the stimulation of Th6, Th8 and Th10 dermatomes are considered to be very close or to overlap.
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- K Itomi
- Department of Integrative Physiology, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Japan.
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Hari R, Forss N. Magnetoencephalography in the study of human somatosensory cortical processing. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 1999; 354:1145-54. [PMID: 10466142 PMCID: PMC1692629 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1999.0470] [Citation(s) in RCA: 249] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Magnetoencephalography (MEG) is a totally non-invasive research method which provides information about cortical dynamics on a millisecond time-scale. Whole-scalp magnetic field patterns following stimulation of different peripheral nerves indicate activation of an extensive cortical network. At the SI cortex, the responses reflect mainly the activity of area 3b, with clearly somatotopical representations of different body parts. The SII cortex is activated bilaterally and it also receives, besides tactile input, nociceptive afference. Somatically evoked MEG signals may also be detected from the posterior parietal cortex, central mesial cortex and the frontal lobe. The serial versus parallel processing in the cortical somatosensory network is still under debate.
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- R Hari
- Brain Research Unit, Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland.
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Lam K, Kakigi R, Kaneoke Y, Naka D, Maeda K, Suzuki H. Effects of visual and auditory stimulation on somatosensory evoked magnetic fields. Clin Neurophysiol 1999; 110:295-304. [PMID: 10210619 DOI: 10.1016/s0168-5597(98)00059-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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DESIGN AND METHODS We investigated the effects of continuous visual (cartoon and random dot motion) and auditory (music) stimulation on somatosensory evoked magnetic fields (SEFs) following electrical stimulation of the median nerve on 12 normal subjects using paired t test and two way ANOVA for the statistics. RESULTS In the hemisphere contralateral to the stimulated nerve, the middle-latency components (35-60 ms in latency) were significantly enhanced by visual, but not by auditory stimulation. The dipoles of all components within 60-70 ms following stimulation were estimated to be very close each other, around the hand area of the primary sensory cortex (SI). In the ipsilateral hemisphere, the middle-latency components (70-100 ms in latency), the dipoles of which were estimated to be in the second sensory cortex (SII), were markedly decreased in amplitude by both the visual and auditory stimulation. CONCLUSIONS These changes in waveform by visual and auditory stimulation are thought to be due to the effects of the activation of polymodal neurons, which receive not only somatosensory but also visual and/or auditory inputs, in areas 5 and/or 7 as well as in the medial superior temporal region (MST) and superior temporal sulcus (STS), although a change of attention might also be a factor causing such findings.
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- K Lam
- Department of Integrative Physiology, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Japan
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Schnitzler A, Volkmann J, Enck P, Frieling T, Witte OW, Freund HJ. Different cortical organization of visceral and somatic sensation in humans. Eur J Neurosci 1999; 11:305-15. [PMID: 9987033 DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.1999.00429.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Sensory stimuli from the visceral domain exhibit perceptual characteristics different from stimuli applied to the body surface. Compared with somatosensation there is not much known about the cortical projection and functional organization of visceral sensation in humans. In this study, we determined the cortical areas activated by non-painful electrical stimulation of visceral afferents in the distal oesophagus, and somatosensory afferents in the median nerve and the lip in seven healthy volunteers using whole-head magnetoencephalography. Stimulation of somatosensory afferents elicited short-latency responses (approximately 20-60 ms) in the primary somatosensory cortex (SI) contralateral (median nerve) or bilateral (lip) to the stimulated side, and long-latency responses (approximately 60-160 ms) bilaterally in the second somatosensory cortex (SII). In contrast, stimulation of visceral oesophageal afferents did not evoke discernible responses in SI but well reproducible bilateral SII responses (approximately 70-190 ms) in close vicinity to long-latency SII responses following median nerve and lip stimuli. Psychophysically, temporal discrimination of successive stimuli became worse with increasing stimulus repetition rates (0.25 Hz, 0.5 Hz, 1 Hz, 2 Hz) only for visceral oesophageal, but not for somatosensory median nerve stimuli. Correspondingly, amplitudes of the first cortical response to oesophageal stimulation emerging in the SII cortex declined with increasing stimulus repetition rates whereas the earliest cortical response elicited by median nerve stimuli (20 ms SI response) remained unaffected by the stimulus frequency. Our results indicate that visceral afferents from the oesophagus primarily project to the SII cortex and, unlike somatosensory afferents, lack a significant SI representation. We propose that this cortical projection pattern forms the neurophysiological basis of the low temporal and spatial resolution of conscious visceral sensation.
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- A Schnitzler
- Department of Neurology, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany.
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Nakamura A, Yamada T, Goto A, Kato T, Ito K, Abe Y, Kachi T, Kakigi R. Somatosensory homunculus as drawn by MEG. Neuroimage 1998; 7:377-86. [PMID: 9626677 DOI: 10.1006/nimg.1998.0332] [Citation(s) in RCA: 214] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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We studied a detailed somatosensory representation map of the human primary somatosensory cortex using magnetoencephalography. Somatosensory-evoked magnetic fields following tactile stimulation of multiple points in the right hemibody (including the tongue, lips, fingers, arm, trunk, leg, and foot) were analyzed in five normal subjects. We were able to estimate equivalent current dipoles (ECDs) following stimulation of the tongue, lips, fingers, palm, forearm, elbow, upper arm, and toes in most subjects and those following the stimulation of the chest, ankle, and thigh in one subject. The ECDs were located in the postcentral gyrus and generally arranged in order along the central sulcus, which is compatible with the somatosensory "homunculus." Linear distances, averaged in five subjects, from the receptive area of the thumb to that of the tongue, little finger, forearm, upper arm, and toes were estimated to be 2.42 +/- 0.28, 1.25 +/- 0.28, 2.21 +/- 0.72, 2.75 +/- 0.63, and 5.29 +/- 0.48 cm, respectively. The moment of each ECD, which suggested the size of the cortical areas responsive to the stimulation, was also compatible with the bizarre proportion of the homunculus with a large tongue, lips, and fingers. According to these results, we were able to reproduce a large part of the somatosensory homunculus quantitatively on an individual brain MRI.
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- A Nakamura
- Department of Biofunctional Research, National Institute for Longevity Sciences, Aichi, Japan.
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Shimojo M, Kakigi R, Hoshiyama M, Koyama S, Watanabe S. Magnetoencephalographic study of intracerebral interactions caused by bilateral posterior tibial nerve stimulation in man. Neurosci Res 1997; 28:41-7. [PMID: 9179879 DOI: 10.1016/s0168-0102(97)01174-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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We studied somatosensory evoked magnetic fields (SEFs) following stimulation of bilateral posterior tibial nerves ('bilateral' waveform) in normal subjects to determine the inter- and intra-hemispheric interference effects caused by activation of sensory areas in bilateral hemispheres. Activated areas in the primary and second sensory cortices (SI and SII) in each hemisphere following bilateral stimulation were clearly identified by estimation of the double best-fitted equivalent current dipoles (ECD) using the spherical head model, and the large inter-individual differences were identified. SEFs following the right posterior tibial nerve stimulation and those following the left stimulation were summated ('summated' waveform). The 'difference' waveform was induced by a subtraction of 'bilateral' waveforms from the 'summated' waveform. Short-latency deflections showed no consistent changes between the 'summated' and 'bilateral' waveforms, but the long-latency deflection, the N100m-P100m, in the 'bilateral' waveform was significantly (P < 0.02) reduced in amplitude as compared with the 'summated' waveform. The differences were clearly identified in the 'difference' waveform, in which the main deflections, U100m-D100m, were found. The ECDs of the short-latency deflections were located in SI contralateral to the stimulated nerve, but the ECDs of the N100m-P100m were located in bilateral SII which are considered to receive ascending signals from the body bilaterally. Therefore, some inhibitory interactions might take place in SII by receiving inputs from the body bilaterally.
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- M Shimojo
- Department of Integrative Physiology, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Japan
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Kitamura Y, Kakigi R, Hoshiyama M, Koyama S, Nakamura A. Effects of sleep on somatosensory evoked responses in human: a magnetoencephalographic study. BRAIN RESEARCH. COGNITIVE BRAIN RESEARCH 1996; 4:275-9. [PMID: 8957568 DOI: 10.1016/s0926-6410(96)00066-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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We studied the effects of sleep on somatosensory evoked magnetic fields (SEFs) following median nerve stimulation in normal subjects, to investigate the changes of functional processing of sensory perception in the primary and second sensory cortices (SI and SII). The early components, 1M, 2M and 3M, which were generated in SI contralateral to the stimulated nerve, showed no significant change of latency or amplitude in stage 1 or 2 as compared with those in the awake state. The long-latency response, 4M whose latency was about 100 ms, was significantly enhanced in stage 2. The 4M was considered to be generated in SI and SII in the awake state, but the enhanced 4M in stage 2 was restricted in SI. The 4M(I) generated in SII of the hemisphere ipsilateral to the stimulated nerve, corresponding to 4M in the contralateral hemisphere, was absent during sleep. These findings were probably due to the difference of activities between SI and SII during sleep, that is, an increase of sensitivity to somatosensory stimulation in SI but a decrease or disappearance in SII.
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- Y Kitamura
- Department of Integrative Physiology, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki 444, Japan
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