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Peng J, Zikereya T, Shao Z, Shi K. The neuromechanical of Beta-band corticomuscular coupling within the human motor system. Front Neurosci 2024; 18:1441002. [PMID: 39211436 PMCID: PMC11358111 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2024.1441002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2024] [Accepted: 07/26/2024] [Indexed: 09/04/2024] Open
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Beta-band activity in the sensorimotor cortex is considered a potential biomarker for evaluating motor functions. The intricate connection between the brain and muscle (corticomuscular coherence), especially in beta band, was found to be modulated by multiple motor demands. This coherence also showed abnormality in motion-related disorders. However, although there has been a substantial accumulation of experimental evidence, the neural mechanisms underlie corticomuscular coupling in beta band are not yet fully clear, and some are still a matter of controversy. In this review, we summarized the findings on the impact of Beta-band corticomuscular coherence to multiple conditions (sports, exercise training, injury recovery, human functional restoration, neurodegenerative diseases, age-related changes, cognitive functions, pain and fatigue, and clinical applications), and pointed out several future directions for the scientific questions currently unsolved. In conclusion, an in-depth study of Beta-band corticomuscular coupling not only elucidates the neural mechanisms of motor control but also offers new insights and methodologies for the diagnosis and treatment of motor rehabilitation and related disorders. Understanding these mechanisms can lead to personalized neuromodulation strategies and real-time neurofeedback systems, optimizing interventions based on individual neurophysiological profiles. This personalized approach has the potential to significantly improve therapeutic outcomes and athletic performance by addressing the unique needs of each individual.
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- Physical Education Department, China University of Geosciences Beijing, Beijing, China
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Free DB, Syndergaard I, Pigg AC, Muceli S, Hallett M, Farina D, Charles SK. Hand and distal joint tremor are most coherent with the activity of elbow flexors and wrist extensors in persons with essential tremor. J Appl Physiol (1985) 2024; 136:337-348. [PMID: 38126087 PMCID: PMC11218932 DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00407.2023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2023] [Revised: 11/27/2023] [Accepted: 12/19/2023] [Indexed: 12/23/2023] Open
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Essential tremor (ET) affects millions of people. Although frontline treatment options (medication, deep brain stimulation, and focused ultrasound ablation) have provided significant relief, many patients are unsatisfied with the outcomes. Peripheral suppression techniques, such as injections of botulinum toxin or sensory electrical stimulation of muscles, are gaining popularity, but could be optimized if the muscles most responsible for a patient's tremor were identified. The purpose of this study was to quantify the relationship between the activity in various upper limb muscles and the resulting tremor in patients with ET. Surface electromyogram (sEMG) from the 15 major superficial muscles of the upper limb and displacement of the hand and upper limb joints were recorded from 22 persons with ET while they performed kinetic and postural tasks representative of activities of daily living. We calculated the peak coherence (frequency-dependent correlation) in the tremor band (4-8 Hz) between the sEMG of each muscle and the displacement in each major degree of freedom (DOF). Averaged across subjects with ET, the highest coherence was found between elbow flexors (particularly biceps brachii and brachioradialis) and the distal DOF (forearm, wrist, and hand motion), and between wrist extensors (extensor carpi radialis and ulnaris) and the same distal DOF. These coherence values represent the upper bound on the proportion of the tremor caused by each muscle. We conclude that, without further information, elbow flexors and wrist extensors should be among the first muscles considered for peripheral suppression techniques in persons with ET.NEW & NOTEWORTHY We characterized the relationships between activity in upper limb muscles and tremor in persons with essential tremor using coherence, which provides an upper bound on the proportion of the tremor due to each muscle. Averaged across subjects and various tasks, tremor in the hand and distal joints was most coherent with elbow flexors and wrist extensors. We conclude that, without further information, these muscle groups should be among the first considered for peripheral suppression techniques.
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- Daniel B Free
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, United States
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States
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- Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, United States
- Department of Neuroscience, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, United States
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Zipser-Mohammadzada F, Scheffers MF, Conway BA, Halliday DM, Zipser CM, Curt A, Schubert M. Intramuscular coherence enables robust assessment of modulated supra-spinal input in human gait: an inter-dependence study of visual task and walking speed. Exp Brain Res 2023; 241:1675-1689. [PMID: 37199775 DOI: 10.1007/s00221-023-06635-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2023] [Accepted: 05/11/2023] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Intramuscular high-frequency coherence is increased during visually guided treadmill walking as a consequence of increased supra-spinal input. The influence of walking speed on intramuscular coherence and its inter-trial reproducibility need to be established before adoption as a functional gait assessment tool in clinical settings. Here, fifteen healthy controls performed a normal and a target walking task on a treadmill at various speeds (0.3 m/s, 0.5 m/s, 0.9 m/s, and preferred) during two sessions. Intramuscular coherence was calculated between two surface EMG recordings sites of the Tibialis anterior muscle during the swing phase of walking. The results were averaged across low-frequency (5-14 Hz) and high-frequency (15-55 Hz) bands. The effect of speed, task, and time on mean coherence was assessed using three-way repeated measures ANOVA. Reliability and agreement were calculated with the intra-class correlation coefficient and Bland-Altman method, respectively. Intramuscular coherence during target walking was significantly higher than during normal walking across all walking speeds in the high-frequency band as obtained by the three-way repeated measures ANOVA. Interaction effects between task and speed were found for the low- and high-frequency bands, suggesting that task-dependent differences increase at higher walking speeds. Reliability of intramuscular coherence was moderate to excellent for most normal and target walking tasks in all frequency bands. This study confirms previous reports of increased intramuscular coherence during target walking, while providing first evidence for reproducibility and robustness of this measure as a requirement to investigate supra-spinal input.Trial registration Registry number/ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03343132, date of registration 2017/11/17.
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- Department of Neurophysiology, Spinal Cord Injury Center, Balgrist University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland
- Faculty of Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Biomedical Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, G4 0NW, UK
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- School of Physics, Engineering and Technology, University of York, York, YO10 5DD, UK
- York Biomedical Research Institute, University of York, York, UK
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- Department of Neurophysiology, Spinal Cord Injury Center, Balgrist University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Neurophysiology, Spinal Cord Injury Center, Balgrist University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Neurophysiology, Spinal Cord Injury Center, Balgrist University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland
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Glories D, Duclay J. Recurrent inhibition contribution to corticomuscular coherence modulation between contraction types. Scand J Med Sci Sports 2023; 33:597-608. [PMID: 36609914 DOI: 10.1111/sms.14309] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2022] [Revised: 09/14/2022] [Accepted: 01/04/2023] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Recent findings provided evidence that spinal regulatory mechanisms were involved in corticomuscular coherence (CMC) modulation between contraction types. Although their relative contributions could not be precisely identified, it was suggested that recurrent inhibition (RI) could modulate CMC by regulating the synchronization of spinal motoneuron activity. To confirm this hypothesis, concurrent modulations of RI and CMC for the soleus (SOL) were compared during submaximal isometric, shortening and lengthening plantar flexions. Submaximal contraction intensity was set at 50% of the maximal SOL EMG activity. CMC was computed in the time-frequency domain between the Cz EEG electrode signal and the nonrectified SOL EMG signal. The RI was quantified through the paired Hoffmann (H) reflex technique by comparing the modulations of the test and conditioning H-reflexes (H' and H1 , respectively). Both beta-band CMC and the ratio between H' and H1 amplitudes were significantly lower in SOL during lengthening compared with isometric and shortening contractions. Furthermore, we observed a negative linear correlation between the RI and beta-band CMC. Finally, a higher RI increase during lengthening contractions compared to either isometric or shortening ones was correlated with a larger decrease in CMC. Collectively, these novel findings provide robust evidence that the RI acts as a neural "filter" that contributes to the modulation of corticomuscular interactions between contraction types, possibly by disrupting the oscillatory muscle activation.
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- Dorian Glories
- Toulouse NeuroImaging Center, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
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- Toulouse NeuroImaging Center, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
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Glories D, Soulhol M, Amarantini D, Duclay J. Combined effect of contraction type and intensity on corticomuscular coherence during isokinetic plantar flexions. Eur J Appl Physiol 2023; 123:609-621. [PMID: 36352055 DOI: 10.1007/s00421-022-05087-y] [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: 05/25/2022] [Accepted: 11/02/2022] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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During isometric contractions, corticomuscular coherence (CMC) may be modulated along with the contraction intensity. Furthermore, CMC may also vary between contraction types due to the contribution of spinal inhibitory mechanisms. However, the interaction between the effect of the contraction intensity and of the contraction type on CMC remains hitherto unknown. Therefore, CMC and spinal excitability modulations were compared during submaximal isometric, shortening and lengthening contractions of plantar flexor muscles at 25, 50, and 70% of the maximal soleus (SOL) EMG activity. CMC was computed in the time-frequency domain between the Cz EEG electrode signal and the SOL or medial gastrocnemius (MG) EMG signals. The results indicated that beta-band CMC was decreased in the SOL only between 25 and 50-70% contractions for both isometric and anisometric contractions, but remained similar for all contraction intensities in the MG. Spinal excitability was similar for all contraction intensities in both muscles. Meanwhile a divergence of the EEG and the EMG signals mean frequency was observed only in the SOL and only between 25 and 50-70% contractions, independently from the contraction type. Collectively, these findings confirm an effect of the contraction intensity on beta-band CMC, although it was only measured in the SOL, between low-level and high-level contraction intensities. Furthermore, the current findings provide new evidence that the observed modulations of beta-band CMC with the contraction intensity does not depend on the contraction type or on spinal excitability variations.
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- Dorian Glories
- Toulouse NeuroImaging Center, Université de Toulouse, Inserm, UPS, 118 Route de Narbonne, 3062, Toulouse Cedex 9, France
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- Toulouse NeuroImaging Center, Université de Toulouse, Inserm, UPS, 118 Route de Narbonne, 3062, Toulouse Cedex 9, France
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- Toulouse NeuroImaging Center, Université de Toulouse, Inserm, UPS, 118 Route de Narbonne, 3062, Toulouse Cedex 9, France
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- Toulouse NeuroImaging Center, Université de Toulouse, Inserm, UPS, 118 Route de Narbonne, 3062, Toulouse Cedex 9, France.
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Cruz-Montecinos C, García-Massó X, Maas H, Cerda M, Ruiz-Del-Solar J, Tapia C. Detection of intermuscular coordination based on the causality of empirical mode decomposition. Med Biol Eng Comput 2023; 61:497-509. [PMID: 36527531 DOI: 10.1007/s11517-022-02736-4] [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: 10/05/2021] [Accepted: 12/09/2022] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Considering the stochastic nature of electromyographic (EMG) signals, nonlinear methods may be a more accurate approach to study intermuscular coordination than the linear approach. The aims of this study were to assess the coordination between two ankle plantar flexors using EMG by applying the causal decomposition approach and assessing whether the intermuscular coordination is affected by the slope of the treadmill. The medial gastrocnemius (MG) and soleus muscles (SOL) were analyzed during the treadmill walking at inclinations of 0°, 5°, and 10°. The coordination was evaluated using ensemble empirical mode decomposition, and the causal interaction was encoded by the instantaneous phase dependence of time series bi-directional causality. To estimate the mutual predictability between MG and SOL, the cross-approximate entropy (XApEn) was assessed. The maximal causal interaction was observed between 40 and 75 Hz independent of inclination. XApEn showed a significant decrease between 0° and 5° (p = 0.028), between 5° and 10° (p = 0.038), and between 0° and 10° (p = 0.014), indicating an increase in coordination. Thus, causal decomposition is an appropriate methodology to study intermuscular coordination. These results indicate that the variation of loading through the change in treadmill inclination increases the interaction of the shared input between MG and SOL, suggesting increased intermuscular coordination.
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- Carlos Cruz-Montecinos
- Department of Human Movement Sciences, Faculty of Behavioral and Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam Movement Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.,Laboratory of Clinical Biomechanics, Department of Kinesiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Av. Independencia 1027, Independencia, Santiago, Chile
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- Department of Teaching of Musical, Visual and Corporal Expression, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain.,Human Movement Analysis Group, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
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- Department of Human Movement Sciences, Faculty of Behavioral and Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam Movement Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Integrative Biology Program, Institute of Biomedical Sciences (ICBM), Center for Medical Informatics and Telemedicine (CIMT), Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.,Biomedical Neuroscience Institute (BNI), Santiago, Chile
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- Laboratory of Clinical Biomechanics, Department of Kinesiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Av. Independencia 1027, Independencia, Santiago, Chile. .,Departamento de Kinesiología, Facultad de Artes Y Educación Física, Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de La Educación, Santiago, Chile.
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Free DB, Syndergaard I, Pigg AC, Muceli S, Thompson-Westra J, Mente K, Maurer CW, Haubenberger D, Hallett M, Farina D, Charles SK. Essential Tremor accentuates the pattern of tremor-band coherence between upper-limb muscles. J Neurophysiol 2023; 129:524-540. [PMID: 36695518 PMCID: PMC9970651 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00398.2022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2022] [Revised: 12/28/2022] [Accepted: 01/19/2023] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Although Essential Tremor is one of the most common movement disorders, current treatment options are relatively limited. Peripheral tremor suppression methods have shown potential, but we do not currently know which muscles are most responsible for patients' tremor, making it difficult to optimize suppression methods. The purpose of this study was to quantify the relationships between the tremorogenic activity in muscles throughout the upper limb. Muscle activity was recorded from the 15 major superficial upper-limb muscles in 24 subjects with Essential Tremor while they held various postures or made upper-limb movements. We calculated the coherence in the tremor band (4-12 Hz) between the activity of all muscle pairs and the time-varying phase difference between sufficiently coherent muscle pairs. Overall, the observed pattern somewhat mirrored functional relationships: agonistic muscle pairs were most coherent and in phase, whereas antagonist and unrelated muscle pairs exhibited less coherence and were either consistently in phase, consistently antiphase, consistently out of phase (unrelated pairs only), or else inconsistent. Patients exhibited significantly more coherence than control subjects (p<0.001) in the vast majority of muscle pairs (95 out of 105). Furthermore, differences between patients and controls were most pronounced among agonists; thus, the coherence pattern existing in control subjects was accentuated in patients with ET. We conclude that tremor-band activity is broadly distributed among the muscles of the upper limb, challenging efforts to determine which muscles are most responsible for a patient's tremor.
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- Daniel B Free
- Mechanical Engineering, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, United States
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- Mechanical Engineering, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, United States
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- Mechanical Engineering, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, United States
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- Electrical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Clinical Trials Unit, Office of the Clinical Director, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States
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- Human Motor Control Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States
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- Human Motor Control Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States
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- Clinical Trials Unit, Office of the Clinical Director, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States
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- Human Motor Control Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States
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- Bioengineering, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Mechanical Engineering, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, United States
- Neuroscience, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, United States
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Ojha A, Alderink G, Rhodes S. Coherence between electromyographic signals of anterior tibialis, soleus, and gastrocnemius during standing balance tasks. Front Hum Neurosci 2023; 17:1042758. [PMID: 37144163 PMCID: PMC10151522 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2023.1042758] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2022] [Accepted: 03/31/2023] [Indexed: 05/06/2023] Open
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Introduction Knowledge about the mechanics and physiological features of balance for healthy individuals enhances understanding of impairments of balance related to neuropathology secondary to aging, diseases of the central nervous system (CNS), and traumatic brain injury, such as concussion. Methods We examined the neural correlations during muscle activation related to quiet standing from the intermuscular coherence in different neural frequency bands. Electromyography (EMG) signals were recorded from six healthy participants (fs = 1,200 Hz for 30 s) from three different muscles bilaterally: anterior tibialis, medial gastrocnemius, and soleus. Data were collected for four different postural stability conditions. In decreasing order of stability these were feet together eyes open, feet together eyes closed, tandem eyes open, and tandem eyes closed. Wavelet decomposition was used to extract the neural frequency bands: gamma, beta, alpha, theta, and delta. Magnitude-squared-coherence (MSC) was computed between different muscle pairs for each of the stability conditions. Results and discussion There was greater coherence between muscle pairs in the same leg. Coherence was greater in lower frequency bands. For all frequency bands, the standard deviation of coherence between different muscle pairs was always higher in the less stable positions. Time-frequency coherence spectrograms also showed higher intermuscular coherence for muscle pairs in the same leg and in less stable positions. Our data suggest that coherence between EMG signals may be used as an independent indicator of the neural correlates for stability.
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- Anuj Ojha
- School of Engineering, Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, MI, United States
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- Department of Physical Therapy and Athletic Training, Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, MI, United States
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- School of Engineering, Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, MI, United States
- *Correspondence: Samhita Rhodes,
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Mongold SJ, Piitulainen H, Legrand T, Ghinst MV, Naeije G, Jousmäki V, Bourguignon M. Temporally stable beta sensorimotor oscillations and cortico-muscular coupling underlie force steadiness. Neuroimage 2022; 261:119491. [PMID: 35908607 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119491] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2022] [Revised: 07/12/2022] [Accepted: 07/15/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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As humans, we seamlessly hold objects in our hands, and may even lose consciousness of these objects. This phenomenon raises the unsettled question of the involvement of the cerebral cortex, the core area for voluntary motor control, in dynamically maintaining steady muscle force. To address this issue, we measured magnetoencephalographic brain activity from healthy adults who maintained a steady pinch grip. Using a novel analysis approach, we uncovered fine-grained temporal modulations in the beta sensorimotor brain rhythm and its coupling with muscle activity, with respect to several aspects of muscle force (rate of increase/decrease or plateauing high/low). These modulations preceded changes in force features by ∼40 ms and possessed behavioral relevance, as less salient or absent modulation predicted a more stable force output. These findings have consequences for the existing theories regarding the functional role of cortico-muscular coupling, and suggest that steady muscle contractions are characterized by a stable rather than fluttering involvement of the sensorimotor cortex.
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- Scott J Mongold
- Laboratory of Neurophysiology and Movement Biomechanics, UNI - ULB Neuroscience Institute, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium.
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- Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland; Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering, Aalto University School of Science, Espoo, Finland
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- Laboratory of Neurophysiology and Movement Biomechanics, UNI - ULB Neuroscience Institute, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium
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- Laboratoire de Cartographie fonctionnelle du Cerveau, UNI - ULB Neuroscience Institute, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium; Service d'ORL et de chirurgie cervico-faciale, CUB Hôpital Erasme, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium
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- Laboratoire de Cartographie fonctionnelle du Cerveau, UNI - ULB Neuroscience Institute, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium; Centre de Référence Neuromusculaire, Department of Neurology, CUB Hôpital Erasme, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering, Aalto University School of Science, Espoo, Finland; Aalto NeuroImaging, Aalto University School of Science, Espoo, Finland
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- Laboratory of Neurophysiology and Movement Biomechanics, UNI - ULB Neuroscience Institute, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium; Laboratoire de Cartographie fonctionnelle du Cerveau, UNI - ULB Neuroscience Institute, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium; BCBL, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, 20009 San Sebastian, Spain
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Saadat Z, Pirouzi S, Nami M, Rojhani-Shirazi Z. Quantitative Electroencephalography and Surface Electromyography Correlations upon Predictable and Unpredictable Perturbation in Older Adults. J Biomed Phys Eng 2022; 12:257-266. [PMID: 35698538 PMCID: PMC9175129 DOI: 10.31661/jbpe.v0i0.2004-1098] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2020] [Accepted: 07/15/2020] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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BACKGROUND Quantitative Electroencephalography (qEEG) is a non-invasive method used to quantify electrical activity over the cortex. QEEG provides an accurate temporal resolution of the brain activity, making it a useful tool for assessing cortical function during challenging tasks. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to investigate postural adjustments in older adults in response to an external perturbation. MATERIAL AND METHODS In this observational study, nineteen healthy older adults were involved. A 32-channel qEEG was employed to track alterations in beta power on the electrodes over the two sensory-motor areas. Integrated electromyographic activity (IntEMG) of the leg muscles was evaluated in response to perturbations under predictable and unpredictable conditions. RESULTS The results indicated higher beta power during late-phase in the Cz electrode in both conditions. IntEMG was significantly greater in the tibialis anterior muscle during both conditions in the CPA epoch. In predictable condition, a positive correlation was found between the beta power over C4 (r = 0.560, p = 0.013) and C3 (r = 0.458, p = 0.048) electrodes and tibialis anterior muscle amplitude, and between beta power in C4 and gastrocnemius amplitude (r = 0.525, p = 0.021). In unpredictable condition, there was a positive correlation between beta power over the C4 and the tibialis anterior amplitude (r = 0.580, p = 0.009) and also it over the C3 and the tibialis anterior amplitude (r = 0.452, p = 0.049). CONCLUSION Our findings demonstrate that sensorimotor processing occurs in the brain during response to perturbation. Furthermore, cortical activity appeared to be greatest during the recruitment of the muscles upon late-phase in older adults.
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- Zahra Saadat
- PhD Candidate, Department of Physical Therapy, School of Rehabilitation Sciences, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
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- PhD, Department of Physical Therapy, School of Rehabilitation Sciences, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
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- MD, PhD, Neuroscience Laboratory (Brain, Cognition and Behavior), Department of Neuroscience, School of Advanced Medical Sciences and Technologies, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
- MD, PhD, Neuroscience Center, Instituto De Investigaciones Científicasy Servicios De Alta Tecnología (INDICASAT AIP), City of Knowledge, Panama City, Republic of Panama
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- PhD, Department of Physical Therapy, School of Rehabilitation Sciences, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
- PhD, Rehabilitation Sciences Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
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Weber I, Oehrn CR. A Waveform-Independent Measure of Recurrent Neural Activity. Front Neuroinform 2022; 16:800116. [PMID: 35321152 PMCID: PMC8936506 DOI: 10.3389/fninf.2022.800116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2021] [Accepted: 02/08/2022] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Rhythmic neural activity, so-called oscillations, plays a key role in neural information transmission, processing, and storage. Neural oscillations in distinct frequency bands are central to physiological brain function, and alterations thereof have been associated with several neurological and psychiatric disorders. The most common methods to analyze neural oscillations, e.g., short-time Fourier transform or wavelet analysis, assume that measured neural activity is composed of a series of symmetric prototypical waveforms, e.g., sinusoids. However, usually, the models generating the signal, including waveform shapes of experimentally measured neural activity are unknown. Decomposing asymmetric waveforms of nonlinear origin using these classic methods may result in spurious harmonics visible in the estimated frequency spectra. Here, we introduce a new method for capturing rhythmic brain activity based on recurrences of similar states in phase-space. This method allows for a time-resolved estimation of amplitude fluctuations of recurrent activity irrespective of or specific to waveform shapes. The algorithm is derived from the well-established field of recurrence analysis, which, in comparison to Fourier-based analysis, is still very uncommon in neuroscience. In this paper, we show its advantages and limitations in comparison to short-time Fourier transform and wavelet convolution using periodic signals of different waveform shapes. Furthermore, we demonstrate its application using experimental data, i.e., intracranial and noninvasive electrophysiological recordings from the human motor cortex of one epilepsy patient and one healthy adult, respectively.
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- Immo Weber
- Department of Neurology, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
- Center for Mind, Brain and Behavior (CMBB), Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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Tisseyre J, Cremoux S, Amarantini D, Tallet J. Increased intensity of unintended mirror muscle contractions after cervical spinal cord injury is associated with changes in interhemispheric and corticomuscular coherences. Behav Brain Res 2022; 417:113563. [PMID: 34499938 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2021.113563] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2020] [Revised: 08/02/2021] [Accepted: 08/25/2021] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Mirror contractions refer to unintended contractions of the contralateral homologous muscles during voluntary unilateral contractions or movements. Exaggerated mirror contractions have been found in several neurological diseases and indicate dysfunction or lesion of the cortico-spinal pathway. The present study investigates mirror contractions and the associated interhemispheric and corticomuscular interactions in adults with spinal cord injury (SCI) - who present a lesion of the cortico-spinal tract - compared to able-bodied participants (AB). Eight right-handed adults with chronic cervical SCI and ten age-matched right-handed able-bodied volunteers performed sets of right elbow extensions at 20% of maximal voluntary contraction. Electromyographic activity (EMG) of the right and left elbow extensors, interhemispheric coherence over cerebral sensorimotor regions evaluated by electroencephalography (EEG) and corticomuscular coherence between signals over the cerebral sensorimotor regions and each extensor were quantified. Overall, results revealed that participants with SCI exhibited (1) increased EMG activity of both active and unintended active limbs, suggesting more mirror contractions, (2) reduced corticomuscular coherence between signals over the left sensorimotor region and the right active limb and increased corticomuscular coherence between the right sensorimotor region and the left unintended active limb, (3) decreased interhemispheric coherence between signals over the two sensorimotor regions. The increased corticomuscular communication and decreased interhemispheric communication may reflect a reduced inhibition leading to increased communication with the unintended active limb, possibly resulting to exacerbated mirror contractions in SCI. Finally, mirror contractions could represent changes of neural and neuromuscular communication after SCI.
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- Joseph Tisseyre
- Toulouse NeuroImaging Center, Université de Toulouse, Inserm, UPS, Toulouse, France.
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- CerCo, CNRS, UMR5549, Université de Toulouse, 31052 Toulouse, France
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- Toulouse NeuroImaging Center, Université de Toulouse, Inserm, UPS, Toulouse, France
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- Toulouse NeuroImaging Center, Université de Toulouse, Inserm, UPS, Toulouse, France
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Delcamp C, Cormier C, Chalard A, Amarantini D, Gasq D. Botulinum toxin injections combined with rehabilitation decrease corticomuscular coherence in stroke patients. Clin Neurophysiol 2022; 136:49-57. [DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2021.12.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2021] [Revised: 12/20/2021] [Accepted: 12/28/2021] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Velázquez-Pérez L, Rodríguez-Labrada R, González-Garcés Y, Vázquez-Mojena Y, Pérez-Rodríguez R, Ziemann U. Neurophysiological features in spinocerebellar ataxia type 2: Prospects for novel biomarkers. Clin Neurophysiol 2021; 135:1-12. [PMID: 34998091 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2021.12.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2021] [Revised: 12/05/2021] [Accepted: 12/13/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Electrophysiological biomarkers are useful to assess the degeneration and progression of the nervous system in pre-ataxic and ataxic stages of the Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 2 (SCA2). These biomarkers are essentially defined by their clinical significance, discriminating patients and/or preclinical subjects from healthy controls in cross-sectional studies, their significant changes over time in longitudinal studies, and their correlation with the cytosine-guanine-adenine (CAG) repeat expansion and/or clinical ataxia scores, time of evolution and time to ataxia onset. We classified electrophysiological biomarkers into three main types: (1) preclinical, (2) disease progression and (3) genetic damage. We review the data that identify sural nerve potential amplitude, maximum saccadic velocity, sleep efficiency, rapid eye movement (REM) sleep percentage, K-complex density, REM sleep without atonia percentage, corticomuscular coherence, central motor conduction time, visual P300 latency, and antisaccadic error correction latency as reliable preclinical, progression and/or genetic damage biomarkers of SCA2. These electrophysiological biomarkers will facilitate the conduction of clinical trials that test the efficacy of emerging treatments in SCA2.
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- Luis Velázquez-Pérez
- Cuban Academy of Sciences, Cuba st 460, Between Amargura and Teniente Rey, La Habana Vieja, La Habana, Cuba; Centre for the Research and Rehabilitation of Hereditary Ataxias, Libertad st 26, Between 12th and 16th Streets, Holguín, Cuba.
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- Centre for the Research and Rehabilitation of Hereditary Ataxias, Libertad st 26, Between 12th and 16th Streets, Holguín, Cuba
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- Machine Learning Department, Holguin University, Ave Celia Sánchez Between Ave de los Internacionalistas y Final, Hilda Torres, Holguín, Cuba
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- Department of Neurology & Stroke, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany; Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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Choi GS, Yun JY, Hwang S, Kim SE, Kim JY, Im CH, Lee HW. Can Corticomuscular Coherence Differentiate between REM Sleep Behavior Disorder with or without Parkinsonism? J Clin Med 2021; 10:jcm10235585. [PMID: 34884285 PMCID: PMC8658120 DOI: 10.3390/jcm10235585] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2021] [Revised: 11/21/2021] [Accepted: 11/23/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) could be a predictor of Parkinsonism even before development of typical motor symptoms. This study aims to characterize clinical features and corticomuscular and corticocortical coherence (CMC and CCC, respectively) during sleep in RBD patients with or without Parkinsonism. We enrolled a total of 105 subjects, including 20 controls, 54 iRBD, and 31 RBD+P patients, patients who were diagnosed as idiopathic RBD (iRBD) and RBD with Parkinsonism (RBD+P) in our neurology department. We analyzed muscle atonia index (MAI) and CMC between EEG and chin/limb muscle electromyography (EMG) and CCC during different sleep stages. Although differences in the CMC of iRBD group were observed only during REM sleep, MAI differences between groups were noted during both REM and NREM N2 stage sleep. During REM sleep, CMC was higher and MAI was reduced in iRBD patients compared to controls (p = 0.001, p < 0.001, respectively). Interestingly, MAI was more reduced in RBD+P compared to iRBD patients. In comparison, CCC was higher in iRBD patients compared to controls whereas CCC was lower in RBD+P groups compared to control and iRBD groups in various frequency bands during both NREM N2 and REM sleep stages. Among them, increased CMC during REM sleep revealed correlation between clinical severities of RBD symptoms. Our findings indicate that MAI, CMC, and CCC showed distinctive features in iRBD and RBD+P patients compared to controls, suggesting potential usefulness to understand possible links between these diseases.
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- Gyeong Seon Choi
- Department of Neurology, Ewha Womans University School of Medicine, Seoul 07985, Korea; (G.S.C.); (J.Y.Y.); (S.H.)
- Department of Neurology, Bundang Jesaeng General Hospital, Seongnam 13590, Korea
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- Department of Neurology, Ewha Womans University School of Medicine, Seoul 07985, Korea; (G.S.C.); (J.Y.Y.); (S.H.)
- Department of Medical Science, Ewha Womans University School of Medicine, Seoul 07804, Korea;
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- Department of Neurology, Ewha Womans University School of Medicine, Seoul 07985, Korea; (G.S.C.); (J.Y.Y.); (S.H.)
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- Department of Medical Science, Ewha Womans University School of Medicine, Seoul 07804, Korea;
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Hanyang University School of Engineering, Seoul 04763, Korea; (J.-Y.K.); (C.-H.I.)
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Hanyang University School of Engineering, Seoul 04763, Korea; (J.-Y.K.); (C.-H.I.)
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- Department of Neurology, Ewha Womans University School of Medicine, Seoul 07985, Korea; (G.S.C.); (J.Y.Y.); (S.H.)
- Department of Medical Science, Ewha Womans University School of Medicine, Seoul 07804, Korea;
- Computational Medicine, Graduate Program in System Health Science & Engineering, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 03765, Korea
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +82-2-2650-2673
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Sensory tricks modulate corticocortical and corticomuscular connectivity in cervical dystonia. Clin Neurophysiol 2021; 132:3116-3124. [PMID: 34749232 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2021.08.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2021] [Revised: 08/10/2021] [Accepted: 08/28/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To examine interactions between cortical areas and between cortical areas and muscles during sensory tricks in cervical dystonia (CD). METHODS Thirteen CD patients and thirteen age-matched healthy controls performed forewarned reaction time tasks, sensory tricks, and two tasks replicating aspects of the tricks (moving necks/arms). Control subjects mimicked sensory tricks. Corticocortical and corticomuscular coherence values were calculated from surface electrodes placed over motor, premotor, and sensory cortical areas and dystonic muscles. RESULTS During initial preparation (after the warning stimulus), the only between-task difference was found in the γ-band corticocortical coherence (higher during tricks than during voluntary neck movements). With movements (before/after the imperative stimulus), the γ-band coherence of CD patients significantly increased during tricks but decreased during voluntary movements, while opposite trends were observed in healthy subjects. Additionally, the α- and β-band coherence decreased in healthy subjects during movements. Between the two patient subgroups (typical vs. forcible tricks), only those with typical tricks showed significant decrease in corticomuscular coherence during tricks. CONCLUSIONS Observed changes in the corticocortical coherence suggest that sensory tricks improve cortical function, which reduces corticomuscular connectivity and the dystonia. SIGNIFICANCE We demonstrated that sensory tricks fundamentally affect sensorimotor integration in CD, both in movement preparation and execution.
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Du S, Yu Q, Dai W, McClelland V, Cvetkovic Z. Dictionary Learning Strategies for Cortico-Muscular Coherence Detection and Estimation. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2021; 2021:240-244. [PMID: 34891281 DOI: 10.1109/embc46164.2021.9630090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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The spectral method of cortico-muscular coherence (CMC) can reveal the communication patterns between the cerebral cortex and muscle periphery, thus providing guidelines for the development of new therapies for movement disorders and insights into fundamental motor neuroscience. The method is applied to electroencephalogram (EEG) and surface electromyogram (sEMG) recorded synchronously during a motor task. However, synchronous EEG and sEMG components are typically too weak compared to additive noise and background activities making significant coherence very difficult to detect. Dictionary learning and sparse representation have been proved effective in enhancing CMC levels. In this paper, we explore the potential of a recently proposed dictionary learning algorithm in combination with an improved component selection algorithm for CMC enhancement. The effectiveness of the method was demonstrated using neurophysiological data where it achieved considerable improvements in CMC levels.
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Liu J, Wang J, Tan G, Sheng Y, Chang H, Xie Q, Liu H. Correlation Evaluation of Functional Corticomuscular Coupling With Abnormal Muscle Synergy After Stroke. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 2021; 68:3261-3272. [PMID: 33764872 DOI: 10.1109/tbme.2021.3068997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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OBJECTIVE While neuroplasticity and functional reorganization during motor recovery can be indirectly reflected and evaluated by functional corticomuscular coupling (fCMC), little work has been published regarding the cortical origin of abnormal muscle synergy and compensatory mechanism in the separation movement of stroke patients. METHODS In this study, we proposed to use extended partial directed coherence (ePDC) combined with an optimal spatial filtering approach to estimate fCMC in stroke patients and healthy controls, and further established muscle synergy model (MSM) to jointly explore the modulation mechanism between cortex and muscles. RESULTS Compared to healthy controls, stroke patients had significantly reduced coupling strength in both descending and ascending pathway. Moreover, the MSM were abnormal with high variability and low similarity in the separation stage of stroke patients. Further exploration of the positive relationship between fCMC characteristics and MSM parameters proved the possibility of using fCMC-MSM-based correlation indicator to evaluate abnormality of the cortical related synergy movement as well as the rehabilitation level of stroke patients. CONCLUSION We developed a computational procedure to evaluate the correlation between fCMC and MSM in stroke patients. SIGNIFICANCE This article provides a quantitative evaluation metrics based on fCMC to reveal the deficits during poststroke motor restoration and a promising approach to help patients correct abnormal movement habits, paving the way for neurophysiological assessment of neuromuscular control in conjunction with clinical scores.
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Bao SC, Chen C, Yuan K, Yang Y, Tong RKY. Disrupted cortico-peripheral interactions in motor disorders. Clin Neurophysiol 2021; 132:3136-3151. [PMID: 34749233 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2021.09.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2021] [Revised: 08/08/2021] [Accepted: 09/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Motor disorders may arise from neurological damage or diseases at different levels of the hierarchical motor control system and side-loops. Altered cortico-peripheral interactions might be essential characteristics indicating motor dysfunctions. By integrating cortical and peripheral responses, top-down and bottom-up cortico-peripheral coupling measures could provide new insights into the motor control and recovery process. This review first discusses the neural bases of cortico-peripheral interactions, and corticomuscular coupling and corticokinematic coupling measures are addressed. Subsequently, methodological efforts are summarized to enhance the modeling reliability of neural coupling measures, both linear and nonlinear approaches are introduced. The latest progress, limitations, and future directions are discussed. Finally, we emphasize clinical applications of cortico-peripheral interactions in different motor disorders, including stroke, neurodegenerative diseases, tremor, and other motor-related disorders. The modified interaction patterns and potential changes following rehabilitation interventions are illustrated. Altered coupling strength, modified coupling directionality, and reorganized cortico-peripheral activation patterns are pivotal attributes after motor dysfunction. More robust coupling estimation methodologies and combination with other neurophysiological modalities might more efficiently shed light on motor control and recovery mechanisms. Future studies with large sample sizes might be necessary to determine the reliabilities of cortico-peripheral interaction measures in clinical practice.
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- Shi-Chun Bao
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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- Stephenson School of Biomedical Engineering, University of Oklahoma, Tulsa, OK, USA; Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, USA; Department of Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
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Hallett M, DelRosso LM, Elble R, Ferri R, Horak FB, Lehericy S, Mancini M, Matsuhashi M, Matsumoto R, Muthuraman M, Raethjen J, Shibasaki H. Evaluation of movement and brain activity. Clin Neurophysiol 2021; 132:2608-2638. [PMID: 34488012 PMCID: PMC8478902 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2021.04.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2021] [Revised: 04/07/2021] [Accepted: 04/25/2021] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Clinical neurophysiology studies can contribute important information about the physiology of human movement and the pathophysiology and diagnosis of different movement disorders. Some techniques can be accomplished in a routine clinical neurophysiology laboratory and others require some special equipment. This review, initiating a series of articles on this topic, focuses on the methods and techniques. The methods reviewed include EMG, EEG, MEG, evoked potentials, coherence, accelerometry, posturography (balance), gait, and sleep studies. Functional MRI (fMRI) is also reviewed as a physiological method that can be used independently or together with other methods. A few applications to patients with movement disorders are discussed as examples, but the detailed applications will be the subject of other articles.
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- Mark Hallett
- Human Motor Control Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA.
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- Department of Neurology, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, IL, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA
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- Paris Brain Institute (ICM), Centre de NeuroImagerie de Recherche (CENIR), Team "Movement, Investigations and Therapeutics" (MOV'IT), INSERM U 1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
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- Department of Neurology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA
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- Department of Epilepsy, Movement Disorders and Physiology, Kyoto University Graduate, School of Medicine, Japan
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- Division of Neurology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
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- Section of Movement Disorders and Neurostimulation, Biomedical Statistics and Multimodal Signal Processing unit, Department of Neurology, Focus Program Translational Neuroscience (FTN), University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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- Neurology Outpatient Clinic, Preusserstr. 1-9, 24105 Kiel, Germany
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Cortico-muscular interaction to monitor the effects of neuromuscular electrical stimulation pedaling training in chronic stroke. Comput Biol Med 2021; 137:104801. [PMID: 34481180 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2021.104801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2021] [Revised: 08/20/2021] [Accepted: 08/21/2021] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) has been widely utilized in post-stroke motor restoration. However, its impact on the closed-loop sensorimotor control process remains largely unclear. This is the first study to investigate the directional changes in cortico-muscular interactions after repetitive rehabilitation training by measuring the noninvasive electroencephalogram (EEG) and electromyography (EMG) signals. In this study, 10 subjects with chronic stroke received 20 sessions of NMES-pedaling interventions, and each training session included three 10-min NMES-driven pedaling trials. In addition, pre- and post-intervention assessments of lower limb isometric contraction were conducted before and after the whole NMES-pedaling interventions. The EEG (128 channels) and EMG (3 bilateral lower limb sensors) signals were collected during the isometric contraction tasks for the paretic and non-paretic lower limbs. Both the cortico-muscular coherence (CMC) and generalized partial directed coherence (GPDC) values were analyzed between eight selected EEG channels in the central primary motor cortex and EMG channels. The results revealed significant clinical improvements. Additionally, rehabilitation training facilitated cortico-muscular interaction of the ipsilesional brain and paretic lower limbs (p = 0.004). Moreover, both the descending and ascending cortico-muscular pathways were altered after NMES-training (p = 0.001, p < 0.001). Therefore, the results implied potential applications of EEG-EMG in understanding neuromuscular changes during the post-stroke motor rehabilitation process.
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Guo Z, McClelland VM, Simeone O, Mills KR, Cvetkovic Z. Multiscale Wavelet Transfer Entropy with Application to Corticomuscular Coupling Analysis. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 2021; 69:771-782. [PMID: 34398749 DOI: 10.1109/tbme.2021.3104969] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Functional coupling between the motor cortex and muscle activity is commonly detected and quantified by cortico-muscular coherence (CMC) or Granger causality (GC) analysis, which are applicable only to linear couplings and are not sufficiently sensitive: some healthy subjects show no significant CMC and GC, and yet have good motor skills. The objective of this work is to develop measures of functional cortico-muscular coupling that have improved sensitivity and are capable of detecting both linear and non-linear interactions. METHODS A multiscale wavelet transfer entropy (TE) methodology is proposed. The methodology relies on a dyadic stationary wavelet transform to decompose electroencephalogram (EEG) and electromyogram (EMG) signals into functional bands of neural oscillations. Then, it applies TE analysis based on a range of embedding delay vectors to detect and quantify intra- and cross-frequency band cortico-muscular coupling at different time scales. RESULTS Our experiments with neurophysiological signals substantiate the potential of the developed methodologies for detecting and quantifying information flow between EEG and EMG signals for subjects with and without significant CMC or GC, including non-linear cross-frequency interactions, and interactions across different temporal scales. The obtained results are in agreement with the underlying sensorimotor neurophysiology. CONCLUSION These findings suggest that the concept of multiscale wavelet TE provides a comprehensive framework for analyzing cortex-muscle interactions. SIGNIFICANCE The proposed methodologies will enable developing novel insights into movement control and neurophysiological processes more generally.
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Varlet M, Nozaradan S, Trainor L, Keller PE. Dynamic Modulation of Beta Band Cortico-Muscular Coupling Induced by Audio-Visual Rhythms. Cereb Cortex Commun 2021; 1:tgaa043. [PMID: 34296112 PMCID: PMC8263089 DOI: 10.1093/texcom/tgaa043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2020] [Revised: 07/27/2020] [Accepted: 07/28/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Human movements often spontaneously fall into synchrony with auditory and visual environmental rhythms. Related behavioral studies have shown that motor responses are automatically and unintentionally coupled with external rhythmic stimuli. However, the neurophysiological processes underlying such motor entrainment remain largely unknown. Here, we investigated with electroencephalography (EEG) and electromyography (EMG) the modulation of neural and muscular activity induced by periodic audio and/or visual sequences. The sequences were presented at either 1 or 2 Hz, while participants maintained constant finger pressure on a force sensor. The results revealed that although there was no change of amplitude in participants' EMG in response to the sequences, the synchronization between EMG and EEG recorded over motor areas in the beta (12-40 Hz) frequency band was dynamically modulated, with maximal coherence occurring about 100 ms before each stimulus. These modulations in beta EEG-EMG motor coherence were found for the 2-Hz audio-visual sequences, confirming at a neurophysiological level the enhancement of motor entrainment with multimodal rhythms that fall within preferred perceptual and movement frequency ranges. Our findings identify beta band cortico-muscular coupling as a potential underlying mechanism of motor entrainment, further elucidating the nature of the link between sensory and motor systems in humans.
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- Manuel Varlet
- The MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University, Penrith, Australia
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- The MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University, Penrith, Australia
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- Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- The MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University, Penrith, Australia
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Fauvet M, Gasq D, Chalard A, Tisseyre J, Amarantini D. Temporal Dynamics of Corticomuscular Coherence Reflects Alteration of the Central Mechanisms of Neural Motor Control in Post-Stroke Patients. Front Hum Neurosci 2021; 15:682080. [PMID: 34366811 PMCID: PMC8342994 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2021.682080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2021] [Accepted: 06/21/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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The neural control of muscular activity during a voluntary movement implies a continuous updating of a mix of afferent and efferent information. Corticomuscular coherence (CMC) is a powerful tool to explore the interactions between the motor cortex and the muscles involved in movement realization. The comparison of the temporal dynamics of CMC between healthy subjects and post-stroke patients could provide new insights into the question of how agonist and antagonist muscles are controlled related to motor performance during active voluntary movements. We recorded scalp electroencephalography activity, electromyography signals from agonist and antagonist muscles, and upper limb kinematics in eight healthy subjects and seventeen chronic post-stroke patients during twenty repeated voluntary elbow extensions and explored whether the modulation of the temporal dynamics of CMC could contribute to motor function impairment. Concomitantly with the alteration of elbow extension kinematics in post-stroke patients, dynamic CMC analysis showed a continuous CMC in both agonist and antagonist muscles during movement and highlighted that instantaneous CMC in antagonist muscles was higher for post-stroke patients compared to controls during the acceleration phase of elbow extension movement. In relation to motor control theories, our findings suggest that CMC could be involved in the online control of voluntary movement through the continuous integration of sensorimotor information. Moreover, specific alterations of CMC in antagonist muscles could reflect central command alterations of the selectivity in post-stroke patients.
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- Maxime Fauvet
- ToNIC-Toulouse NeuroImaging Center, Université de Toulouse, Inserm, UPS, Toulouse, France
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- ToNIC-Toulouse NeuroImaging Center, Université de Toulouse, Inserm, UPS, Toulouse, France.,Department of Functional Physiological Explorations, University Hospital of Toulouse, Hôpital Rangueil, Toulouse, France
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- ToNIC-Toulouse NeuroImaging Center, Université de Toulouse, Inserm, UPS, Toulouse, France.,Department of Neurology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States.,California Rehabilitation Institute, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- ToNIC-Toulouse NeuroImaging Center, Université de Toulouse, Inserm, UPS, Toulouse, France
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- ToNIC-Toulouse NeuroImaging Center, Université de Toulouse, Inserm, UPS, Toulouse, France
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Tun NN, Sanuki F, Iramina K. Electroencephalogram-Electromyogram Functional Coupling and Delay Time Change Based on Motor Task Performance. SENSORS 2021; 21:s21134380. [PMID: 34206753 PMCID: PMC8271984 DOI: 10.3390/s21134380] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2021] [Revised: 06/17/2021] [Accepted: 06/21/2021] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Synchronous correlation brain and muscle oscillations during motor task execution is termed as functional coupling. Functional coupling between two signals appears with a delay time which can be used to infer the directionality of information flow. Functional coupling of brain and muscle depends on the type of muscle contraction and motor task performance. Although there have been many studies of functional coupling with types of muscle contraction and force level, there has been a lack of investigation with various motor task performances. Motor task types play an essential role that can reflect the amount of functional interaction. Thus, we examined functional coupling under four different motor tasks: real movement, intention, motor imagery and movement observation tasks. We explored interaction of two signals with linear and nonlinear information flow. The aim of this study is to investigate the synchronization between brain and muscle signals in terms of functional coupling and delay time. The results proved that brain–muscle functional coupling and delay time change according to motor tasks. Quick synchronization of localized cortical activity and motor unit firing causes good functional coupling and this can lead to short delay time to oscillate between signals. Signals can flow with bidirectionality between efferent and afferent pathways.
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- Nyi Nyi Tun
- Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
- Correspondence: (N.N.T.); (K.I.); Tel.: +81-80-9392-9429 (N.N.T.); Fax: +81-92-802-3581 (N.N.T.)
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- Graduate School of Systems Life Sciences, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan;
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- Faulty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
- Correspondence: (N.N.T.); (K.I.); Tel.: +81-80-9392-9429 (N.N.T.); Fax: +81-92-802-3581 (N.N.T.)
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Liu J, Tan G, Sheng Y, Liu H. Multiscale Transfer Spectral Entropy for Quantifying Corticomuscular Interaction. IEEE J Biomed Health Inform 2021; 25:2281-2292. [PMID: 33090963 DOI: 10.1109/jbhi.2020.3032979] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Corticomuscular coupling reflects nonlinear interactions and multi-layer neural information transmission between the motor cortex and effector muscle in the sensorimotor system. Transfer spectral entropy (TSE) method has been used to describe corticomuscular coupling within single scale. As an extension of TSE, multiscale transfer spectral entropy (MSTSE) is proposed in this paper to depict multi-layer of neural information transfer between two coupling signals. The reliability and effectiveness of MSTSE were verified on data generated by nonlinear numerical models and those of a force tracking task. Compared with TSE, MSTSE is more robust to the embedding dimension and performs optimally in the detection of the coupling properties. Further analysis of the physiological signals showed that the MSTSE provided more detailed band characteristics than the single scale TSE measurement. MSTSE indicates significant coupling scattered in alpha, beta and low gamma bands during the force tracking task. Besides, the coupling strength in the descending direction of the beta band was significantly higher than that in the ascending direction. This study constructs multi-scale coupling information to provide a new perspective for exploring corticomuscular interaction.
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Nijhuis P, Keller PE, Nozaradan S, Varlet M. Dynamic modulation of cortico-muscular coupling during real and imagined sensorimotor synchronisation. Neuroimage 2021; 238:118209. [PMID: 34051354 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118209] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2020] [Revised: 04/19/2021] [Accepted: 05/10/2021] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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People have a natural and intrinsic ability to coordinate body movements with rhythms surrounding them, known as sensorimotor synchronisation. This can be observed in daily environments, when dancing or singing along with music, or spontaneously walking, talking or applauding in synchrony with one another. However, the neurophysiological mechanisms underlying accurately synchronised movement with selected rhythms in the environment remain unclear. Here we studied real and imagined sensorimotor synchronisation with interleaved auditory and visual rhythms using cortico-muscular coherence (CMC) to better understand the processes underlying the preparation and execution of synchronised movement. Electroencephalography (EEG), electromyography (EMG) from the finger flexors, and continuous force signals were recorded in 20 participants during tapping and imagined tapping with discrete stimulus sequences consisting of alternating auditory beeps and visual flashes. The results show that the synchronisation between cortical and muscular activity in the beta (14-38 Hz) frequency band becomes time-locked to the taps executed in synchrony with the visual and auditory stimuli. Dynamic modulation in CMC also occurred when participants imagined tapping with the visual stimuli, but with lower amplitude and a different temporal profile compared to real tapping. These results suggest that CMC does not only reflect changes related to the production of the synchronised movement, but also to its preparation, which appears heightened under higher attentional demands imposed when synchronising with the visual stimuli. These findings highlight a critical role of beta band neural oscillations in the cortical-muscular coupling underlying sensorimotor synchronisation.
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- Patti Nijhuis
- The MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia.
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- The MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia
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- Institute of Neuroscience (Ions), Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium
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- The MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia; School of Psychology, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia
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Glories D, Soulhol M, Amarantini D, Duclay J. Specific modulation of corticomuscular coherence during submaximal voluntary isometric, shortening and lengthening contractions. Sci Rep 2021; 11:6322. [PMID: 33737659 PMCID: PMC7973785 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-85851-w] [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: 08/31/2020] [Accepted: 03/03/2021] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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During voluntary contractions, corticomuscular coherence (CMC) is thought to reflect a mutual interaction between cortical and muscle oscillatory activities, respectively measured by electroencephalography (EEG) and electromyography (EMG). However, it remains unclear whether CMC modulation would depend on the contribution of neural mechanisms acting at the spinal level. To this purpose, modulations of CMC were compared during submaximal isometric, shortening and lengthening contractions of the soleus (SOL) and the medial gastrocnemius (MG) with a concurrent analysis of changes in spinal excitability that may be reduced during lengthening contractions. Submaximal contractions intensity was set at 50% of the maximal SOL EMG activity. CMC was computed in the time-frequency domain between the Cz EEG electrode signal and the unrectified SOL or MG EMG signal. Spinal excitability was quantified through normalized Hoffmann (H) reflex amplitude. The results indicate that beta-band CMC and normalized H-reflex were significantly lower in SOL during lengthening compared with isometric contractions, but were similar in MG for all three muscle contraction types. Collectively, these results highlight an effect of contraction type on beta-band CMC, although it may differ between agonist synergist muscles. These novel findings also provide new evidence that beta-band CMC modulation may involve spinal regulatory mechanisms.
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- Dorian Glories
- grid.15781.3a0000 0001 0723 035XToNIC, Université de Toulouse, Inserm, UPS, Toulouse, France ,grid.15781.3a0000 0001 0723 035XFaculty of Sport Science, University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
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- grid.15781.3a0000 0001 0723 035XToNIC, Université de Toulouse, Inserm, UPS, Toulouse, France ,grid.15781.3a0000 0001 0723 035XFaculty of Sport Science, University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
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- grid.15781.3a0000 0001 0723 035XToNIC, Université de Toulouse, Inserm, UPS, Toulouse, France ,grid.15781.3a0000 0001 0723 035XFaculty of Sport Science, University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
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- grid.15781.3a0000 0001 0723 035XToNIC, Université de Toulouse, Inserm, UPS, Toulouse, France ,grid.15781.3a0000 0001 0723 035XFaculty of Sport Science, University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
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EMG Rectification Is Detrimental for Identifying Abnormalities in Corticomuscular and Intermuscular Coherence in Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 2. THE CEREBELLUM 2020; 19:665-671. [PMID: 32500511 DOI: 10.1007/s12311-020-01149-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Corticomuscular and intermuscular coherence (CMC, IMC) reflect connectivity between neuronal activity in the motor cortex measured by electroencephalography (EEG) and muscular activity measured by electromyography (EMG), or between activity in different muscles, respectively. There is an ongoing debate on the appropriateness of EMG rectification prior to coherence estimation. This work examines the effects of EMG rectification in CMC and IMC estimation in 20 spinocerebellar ataxia type 2 (SCA2) patients, 16 prodromal SCA2 gene mutation carriers, and 26 healthy controls during a repetitive upper or lower limb motor task. Coherence estimations were performed using the non-rectified raw EMG signal vs. the rectified EMG signal. EMG rectification decreases the level of significance of lower beta-frequency band CMC and IMC values in SCA2 patients and prodromal SCA2 mutation carriers vs. healthy controls, and also results in overall lower coherence values. EMG rectification is detrimental for beta-frequency band CMC and IMC estimation. One likely reason for this effect is distortion of coherence estimation in high-frequency signals, where the level of amplitude cancelation is high.
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Guo Z, Qian Q, Wong K, Zhu H, Huang Y, Hu X, Zheng Y. Altered Corticomuscular Coherence (CMCoh) Pattern in the Upper Limb During Finger Movements After Stroke. Front Neurol 2020; 11:410. [PMID: 32477257 PMCID: PMC7240065 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2020.00410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2019] [Accepted: 04/20/2020] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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Background: Proximal compensation to the distal movements is commonly observed in the affected upper extremity (UE) of patients with chronic stroke. However, the cortical origin of this compensation has not been well-understood. In this study, corticomuscular coherence (CMCoh) and electromyography (EMG) analysis were adopted to investigate the corticomuscular coordinating pattern of proximal UE compensatory activities when conducting distal UE movements in chronic stroke. Method: Fourteen chronic stroke subjects and 10 age-matched unimpaired controls conducted isometric finger extensions and flexions at 20 and 40% of maximal voluntary contractions. Electroencephalogram (EEG) data were recorded from the sensorimotor area and EMG signals were captured from extensor digitorum (ED), flexor digitorum (FD), triceps brachii (TRI), and biceps brachii (BIC) to investigate the CMCoh peak values in the Beta band. EMG parameters, i.e., the EMG activation level and co-contraction index (CI), were analyzed to evaluate the compensatory muscular patterns in the upper limb. Result: The peak CMCoh with statistical significance (P < 0.05) was found shifted from the ipsilesional side to the contralesional side in the proximal UE muscles, while to the central regions in the distal UE muscle in chronic strokes. Significant differences (P < 0.05) were observed in both peak ED and FD CMCohs during finger extensions between the two groups. The unimpaired controls exhibited significant intragroup differences between 20 and 40% levels in extensions for peak ED and FD CMCohs (P < 0.05). The stroke subjects showed significant differences in peak TRI and BIC CMCohs (P < 0.01). No significant inter- or intra-group difference was observed in peak CMCoh during finger flexions. EMG parameters showed higher EMG activation levels in TRI and BIC muscles (P < 0.05), and higher CI values in the muscle pairs involving TRI and BIC during all the extension and flexion tasks in the stroke group than those in the control group (P < 0.05). Conclusion: The post-stroke proximal muscular compensations from the elbow to the finger movements were cortically originated, with the center mainly located in the contralesional hemisphere.
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- Ziqi Guo
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong
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Neural Mechanisms Underlying High-Frequency Vestibulocollic Reflexes In Humans And Monkeys. J Neurosci 2020; 40:1874-1887. [PMID: 31959700 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.1463-19.2020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2019] [Revised: 12/30/2019] [Accepted: 01/07/2020] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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The vestibulocollic reflex is a compensatory response that stabilizes the head in space. During everyday activities, this stabilizing response is evoked by head movements that typically span frequencies from 0 to 30 Hz. Transient head impacts, however, can elicit head movements with frequency content up to 300-400 Hz, raising the question whether vestibular pathways contribute to head stabilization at such high frequencies. Here, we first established that electrical vestibular stimulation modulates human neck motor unit (MU) activity at sinusoidal frequencies up to 300 Hz, but that sensitivity increases with frequency up to a low-pass cutoff of ∼70-80 Hz. To examine the neural substrates underlying the low-pass dynamics of vestibulocollic reflexes, we then recorded vestibular afferent responses to the same electrical stimuli in monkeys. Vestibular afferents also responded to electrical stimuli up to 300 Hz, but in contrast to MUs their sensitivity increased with frequency up to the afferent resting firing rate (∼100-150 Hz) and at higher frequencies afferents tended to phase-lock to the vestibular stimulus. This latter nonlinearity, however, was not transmitted to neck motoneurons, which instead showed minimal phase-locking that decreased at frequencies >75 Hz. Similar to human data, we validated that monkey muscle activity also exhibited low-pass filtered vestibulocollic reflex dynamics. Together, our results show that neck MUs are activated by high-frequency signals encoded by primary vestibular afferents, but undergo low-pass filtering at intermediate stages in the vestibulocollic reflex. These high-frequency contributions to vestibular-evoked neck muscle responses could stabilize the head during unexpected head transients.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT Vestibular-evoked neck muscle responses rely on accurate encoding and transmission of head movement information to stabilize the head in space. Unexpected transient events, such as head impacts, are likely to push the limits of these neural pathways since their high-frequency features (0-300 Hz) extend beyond the frequency bandwidth of head movements experienced during everyday activities (0-30 Hz). Here, we demonstrate that vestibular primary afferents encode high-frequency stimuli through frequency-dependent increases in sensitivity and phase-locking. When transmitted to neck motoneurons, these signals undergo low-pass filtering that limits neck motoneuron phase-locking in response to stimuli >75 Hz. This study provides insight into the neural dynamics producing vestibulocollic reflexes, which may respond to high-frequency transient events to stabilize the head.
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McClelland VM, Cvetkovic Z, Lin JP, Mills KR, Brown P. Abnormal patterns of corticomuscular and intermuscular coherence in childhood dystonia. Clin Neurophysiol 2020; 131:967-977. [PMID: 32067914 PMCID: PMC7083222 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2020.01.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2019] [Revised: 01/11/2020] [Accepted: 01/16/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Sensorimotor processing is abnormal in Idiopathic/Genetic dystonias, but poorly studied in Acquired dystonias. Beta-Corticomuscular coherence (CMC) quantifies coupling between oscillatory electroencephalogram (EEG) and electromyogram (EMG) activity and is modulated by sensory stimuli. We test the hypothesis that sensory modulation of CMC and intermuscular coherence (IMC) is abnormal in Idiopathic/Genetic and Acquired dystonias. METHODS Participants: 11 children with Acquired dystonia, 5 with Idiopathic/Genetic dystonia, 13 controls (12-18 years). CMC and IMC were recorded during a grasp task, with mechanical perturbations provided by an electromechanical tapper. Coherence patterns pre- and post-stimulus were compared across groups. RESULTS Beta-CMC increased post-stimulus in Controls and Acquired dystonia (p = 0.001 and p = 0.010, respectively), but not in Idiopathic/Genetic dystonia (p = 0.799). The modulation differed between groups, being larger in both Controls and Acquired dystonia compared with Idiopathic/Genetic dystonia (p = 0.003 and p = 0.022). Beta-IMC increased significantly post-stimulus in Controls (p = 0.004), but not in dystonia. Prominent 4-12 Hz IMC was seen in all dystonia patients and correlated with severity (rho = 0.618). CONCLUSION Idiopathic/Genetic and Acquired dystonia share an abnormal low-frequency IMC. In contrast, sensory modulation of beta-CMC differed between the two groups. SIGNIFICANCE The findings suggest that sensorimotor processing is abnormal in Acquired as well as Idiopathic/Genetic dystonia, but that the nature of the abnormality differs.
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- Verity M McClelland
- Department of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, United Kingdom; Children's Neurosciences Department, Evelina London Children's Hospital, Guy's and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom.
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- Department of Informatics, King's College London, United Kingdom.
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- Children's Neurosciences Department, Evelina London Children's Hospital, Guy's and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom.
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- Department of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, United Kingdom.
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- Medical Research Council Brain Network Dynamics Unit and Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, United Kingdom.
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Coupling between human brain activity and body movements: Insights from non-invasive electromagnetic recordings. Neuroimage 2019; 203:116177. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2019] [Revised: 08/28/2019] [Accepted: 09/06/2019] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Krauth R, Schwertner J, Vogt S, Lindquist S, Sailer M, Sickert A, Lamprecht J, Perdikis S, Corbet T, Millán JDR, Hinrichs H, Heinze HJ, Sweeney-Reed CM. Cortico-Muscular Coherence Is Reduced Acutely Post-stroke and Increases Bilaterally During Motor Recovery: A Pilot Study. Front Neurol 2019; 10:126. [PMID: 30842752 PMCID: PMC6391349 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2019.00126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2018] [Accepted: 01/30/2019] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Motor recovery following stroke is believed to necessitate alteration in functional connectivity between cortex and muscle. Cortico-muscular coherence has been proposed as a potential biomarker for post-stroke motor deficits, enabling a quantification of recovery, as well as potentially indicating the regions of cortex involved in recovery of function. We recorded simultaneous EEG and EMG during wrist extension from healthy participants and patients following ischaemic stroke, evaluating function at three time points post-stroke. EEG–EMG coherence increased over time, as wrist mobility recovered clinically, and by the final evaluation, coherence was higher in the patient group than in the healthy controls. Moreover, the cortical distribution differed between the groups, with coherence involving larger and more bilaterally scattered areas of cortex in the patients than in the healthy participants. The findings suggest that EEG–EMG coherence has the potential to serve as a biomarker for motor recovery and to provide information about the cortical regions that should be targeted in rehabilitation therapies based on real-time EEG.
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- Richard Krauth
- Neurocybernetics and Rehabilitation, Department of Neurology and Stereotactic Neurosurgery, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
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- Neurocybernetics and Rehabilitation, Department of Neurology and Stereotactic Neurosurgery, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
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- MEDIAN Klinik, Neurological Rehabilitation Center, Magdeburg, Germany.,Institute for Neurorehabilitation, Affiliated Institute of the Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
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- MEDIAN Klinik, Neurological Rehabilitation Center, Magdeburg, Germany
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- Institute for Neurorehabilitation, Affiliated Institute of the Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
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- Defitech Chair in Brain-Machine Interface, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Geneva, Switzerland.,Brain-Computer Interfaces and Neural Engineering Laboratory, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom
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- Defitech Chair in Brain-Machine Interface, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Defitech Chair in Brain-Machine Interface, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Neurology, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany.,Department of Behavioral Neurology, Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany.,German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Magdeburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany.,Department of Behavioral Neurology, Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany.,German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Magdeburg, Germany
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- Neurocybernetics and Rehabilitation, Department of Neurology and Stereotactic Neurosurgery, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
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Delmas S, Casamento-Moran A, Park SH, Yacoubi B, Christou EA. Motor planning perturbation: muscle activation and reaction time. J Neurophysiol 2018; 120:2059-2065. [PMID: 29947595 PMCID: PMC6230771 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00323.2018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2018] [Revised: 06/22/2018] [Accepted: 06/26/2018] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Reaction time (RT) is the time interval between the appearance of a stimulus and initiation of a motor response. Within RT, two processes occur, selection of motor goals and motor planning. An unresolved question is whether perturbation to the motor planning component of RT slows the response and alters the voluntary activation of muscle. The purpose of this study was to determine how the modulation of muscle activity during an RT response changes with motor plan perturbation. Twenty-four young adults (20.5 ±1.1 yr, 13 women) performed 15 trials of an isometric RT task with ankle dorsiflexion using a sinusoidal anticipatory strategy (10-20% maximum voluntary contraction). We compared the processing part of the RT and modulation of muscle activity from 10 to 60 Hz of the tibialis anterior (primary agonist) when the stimulus appeared at the trough or at the peak of the sinusoidal task. We found that RT ( P = 0.003) was longer when the stimulus occurred at the peak compared with the trough. During the time of the reaction, the electromyography (EMG) power from 10 to 35 Hz was less at the peak than the trough ( P = 0.019), whereas the EMG power from 35 to 60 Hz was similar between the peak and trough ( P = 0.92). These results suggest that perturbation to motor planning lengthens the processing part of RT and alters the voluntary activation of the muscle by decreasing the relative amount of power from 10 to 35 Hz. NEW & NOTEWORTHY We aimed to determine whether perturbation to motor planning would alter the speed and muscle activity of the response. We compared trials when a stimulus appeared at the peak or trough of an oscillatory reaction time task. When the stimulus occurred at the trough, participants responded faster, with greater force, and less EMG power from 10-35 Hz. We provide evidence that motor planning perturbation slows the response and alters the voluntary activity of the muscle.
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- Stefan Delmas
- Department of Applied Physiology and Kinesiology, University of Florida , Gainesville, Florida
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- Department of Applied Physiology and Kinesiology, University of Florida , Gainesville, Florida
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- Department of Applied Physiology and Kinesiology, University of Florida , Gainesville, Florida
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- Department of Applied Physiology and Kinesiology, University of Florida , Gainesville, Florida
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Roeder L, Boonstra TW, Smith SS, Kerr GK. Dynamics of corticospinal motor control during overground and treadmill walking in humans. J Neurophysiol 2018; 120:1017-1031. [PMID: 29847229 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00613.2017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Increasing evidence suggests cortical involvement in the control of human gait. However, the nature of corticospinal interactions remains poorly understood. We performed time-frequency analysis of electrophysiological activity acquired during treadmill and overground walking in 22 healthy, young adults. Participants walked at their preferred speed (4.2, SD 0.4 km/h), which was matched across both gait conditions. Event-related power, corticomuscular coherence (CMC), and intertrial coherence (ITC) were assessed for EEG from bilateral sensorimotor cortices and EMG from the bilateral tibialis anterior (TA) muscles. Cortical power, CMC, and ITC at theta, alpha, beta, and gamma frequencies (4-45 Hz) increased during the double support phase of the gait cycle for both overground and treadmill walking. High beta (21-30 Hz) CMC and ITC of EMG was significantly increased during overground compared with treadmill walking, as well as EEG power in theta band (4-7 Hz). The phase spectra revealed positive time lags at alpha, beta, and gamma frequencies, indicating that the EEG response preceded the EMG response. The parallel increases in power, CMC, and ITC during double support suggest evoked responses at spinal and cortical populations rather than a modulation of ongoing corticospinal oscillatory interactions. The evoked responses are not consistent with the idea of synchronization of ongoing corticospinal oscillations but instead suggest coordinated cortical and spinal inputs during the double support phase. Frequency-band dependent differences in power, CMC, and ITC between overground and treadmill walking suggest differing neural control for the two gait modalities, emphasizing the task-dependent nature of neural processes during human walking. NEW & NOTEWORTHY We investigated cortical and spinal activity during overground and treadmill walking in healthy adults. Parallel increases in power, corticomuscular coherence, and intertrial coherence during double support suggest evoked responses at spinal and cortical populations rather than a modulation of ongoing corticospinal oscillatory interactions. These findings identify neurophysiological mechanisms that are important for understanding cortical control of human gait in health and disease.
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- Luisa Roeder
- Movement Neuroscience Group, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology , Brisbane , Australia.,School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Queensland University of Technology , Brisbane , Australia
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- Black Dog Institute, University of New South Wales , Sydney , Australia.,Systems Neuroscience Group, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane , Australia
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- Institute of Social Science Research, University of Queensland , Brisbane , Australia
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- Movement Neuroscience Group, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology , Brisbane , Australia.,School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Queensland University of Technology , Brisbane , Australia
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Chen X, Xie P, Zhang Y, Chen Y, Cheng S, Zhang L. Abnormal functional corticomuscular coupling after stroke. NEUROIMAGE-CLINICAL 2018; 19:147-159. [PMID: 30035012 PMCID: PMC6051472 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2018.04.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2017] [Revised: 02/01/2018] [Accepted: 04/01/2018] [Indexed: 10/31/2022]
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Motor dysfunction is a major consequence after stroke and it is generally believed that the loss of motor ability is caused by the impairments in neural network that controls movement. To explore the abnormal mechanisms how the brain controls shoulder abduction and elbow flexion in "flexion synergy" following stroke, we used the functional corticomuscular coupling (FCMC) between the brain and the muscles as a tool to identify the temporal evolution of corticomuscular interaction between the synkinetic and separate phases. 59-channel electroencephalogram (EEG) over brain scalp and 2-channel electromyogram (EMG) from biceps brachii (BB)/deltoid (DT) were recorded in sixteen stroke patients with motor dysfunction and eight healthy controls during a task of uplifting the arm (stage 1) and maintaining up to the chest (stage 2). As a result, compared to healthy controls, stroke patients had abnormally reduced coherence in EEG-BB combination and increased coherence in EEG-DT combination. Compared to synkinetic stroke patients, separate ones exhibited higher coupling at gamma-band during stage 1 and higher at beta-band during stage 2 in EEG-BB combination, but lower at beta-band during stage 2 in EEG-DT combination. Therefore, we infer that the disorders of efferent control and afferent proprioception in sensorimotor system for stroke patients effect on the oscillation at beta and gamma bands. Patients need integrate more information for shoulder abduction to compensate for the functional loss of elbow flexion in the recovery process, so that partial cortical cortex controlling on the elbow flexion may work on the shoulder abduction during "flexion synergy". Such researches could provide new perspective on the temporal evolution of corticomuscular interaction after stroke and add to our understanding of possible pathomechanisms how the brain abnormally controls shoulder abduction and elbow flexion in "flexion synergy".
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- Xiaoling Chen
- Yanshan University, Key Lab of Measurement Technology and Instrumentation of Hebei Province, Qinhuangdao, Hebei 066004, China
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- Yanshan University, Key Lab of Measurement Technology and Instrumentation of Hebei Province, Qinhuangdao, Hebei 066004, China.
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- Yanshan University, Key Lab of Measurement Technology and Instrumentation of Hebei Province, Qinhuangdao, Hebei 066004, China
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- Institute of Education Science, Tianjin Normal University, Applied Psychology of Tianjin Province, Tianjin 300384, China
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- Yanshan University, Key Lab of Measurement Technology and Instrumentation of Hebei Province, Qinhuangdao, Hebei 066004, China
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- Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, The NO.281 Hospital of Chinese People's Liberation Army, Qinhuangdao, Hebei 066100, China
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McClelland VM, Cvetkovic Z, Mills KR. Cortico-muscular coherence enhancement via coherent Wavelet enhanced Independent Component Analysis. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2017; 2017:2786-2789. [PMID: 29060476 DOI: 10.1109/embc.2017.8037435] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Functional coupling between the motor cortex and muscle activity is usually detected and characterized using the spectral method of cortico-muscular coherence (CMC) between surface electromyogram (sEMG) and electroencephalogram (EEG) recorded synchronously under motor control task. However, CMC is often weak and not easily detectable in all individuals. One of the reasons for the low levels of CMC is the presence of noise and components unrelated to the considered tasks in recorded sEMG and EEG signals. In this paper we propose a method for enhancing relative levels of sEMG components coherent with synchronous EEG signals via a variant of Wavelet Independent Component Analysis combined with a novel component selection algorithm. The effectiveness of the proposed algorithm is demonstrated using data collected in neurophysiologcal experiments.
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Velázquez-Pérez L, Tünnerhoff J, Rodríguez-Labrada R, Torres-Vega R, Belardinelli P, Medrano-Montero J, Peña-Acosta A, Canales-Ochoa N, Vázquez-Mojena Y, González-Zaldivar Y, Auburger G, Ziemann U. Corticomuscular Coherence: a Novel Tool to Assess the Pyramidal Tract Dysfunction in Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 2. THE CEREBELLUM 2017; 16:602-606. [PMID: 27730516 DOI: 10.1007/s12311-016-0827-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Clinical signs of corticospinal tract dysfunction are a common feature of spinocerebellar ataxia type 2 (SCA2) patients. The objective of this study is to assess dysfunction of the corticospinal tract in SCA2 using corticomuscular coherence. Testing corticomuscular coherence and rating of ataxia severity and non-ataxia symptoms were performed in 19 SCA2 patients and 24 age-matched controls. Central motor conduction times (CMCT) to upper and lower right limbs were obtained for the SCA2 group using Transcraneal magnetic stimulation (TMS). SCA2 patients exhibited a significant reduction of corticomuscular coherence for lower limbs, but not for upper limbs. This difference remained significant, even when excluding those individuals with clinical signs of corticospinal tract dysfunction. Corticomuscular coherence for lower limbs correlated inversely with CMCT to tibialis anterior muscle. Corticomuscular coherence could be a valuable electrophysiological tool to assess the corticospinal tract involvement in SCA2, even in the absence of clinical signs of corticospinal tract dysfunction.
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- Luis Velázquez-Pérez
- Department Clinical Neurophysiology, Centre for the Research and Rehabilitation of Hereditary Ataxias, Calle Libertad 26, Holguín, Cuba, 80100.
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- Department Neurology & Stroke, and Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University Tübingen, Hoppe-Seyler-Straße 3, 72076, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department Clinical Neurophysiology, Centre for the Research and Rehabilitation of Hereditary Ataxias, Calle Libertad 26, Holguín, Cuba, 80100
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- Department Clinical Neurophysiology, Centre for the Research and Rehabilitation of Hereditary Ataxias, Calle Libertad 26, Holguín, Cuba, 80100
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- Department Neurology & Stroke, and Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University Tübingen, Hoppe-Seyler-Straße 3, 72076, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department Clinical Neurophysiology, Centre for the Research and Rehabilitation of Hereditary Ataxias, Calle Libertad 26, Holguín, Cuba, 80100
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- Department Clinical Neurophysiology, Centre for the Research and Rehabilitation of Hereditary Ataxias, Calle Libertad 26, Holguín, Cuba, 80100
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- Department Clinical Neurophysiology, Centre for the Research and Rehabilitation of Hereditary Ataxias, Calle Libertad 26, Holguín, Cuba, 80100
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- Department Molecular Neurobiology, Centre for the Research and Rehabilitation of Hereditary Ataxias, Holguín, Cuba
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- Department Molecular Neurobiology, Centre for the Research and Rehabilitation of Hereditary Ataxias, Holguín, Cuba
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- Exp. Neurology, Building 89, Goethe University Medical School, Theodor Stern Kai 7, 60590, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department Neurology & Stroke, and Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University Tübingen, Hoppe-Seyler-Straße 3, 72076, Tübingen, Germany.
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Cremoux S, Tallet J, Dal Maso F, Berton E, Amarantini D. Impaired corticomuscular coherence during isometric elbow flexion contractions in humans with cervical spinal cord injury. Eur J Neurosci 2017; 46:1991-2000. [DOI: 10.1111/ejn.13641] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2017] [Revised: 06/29/2017] [Accepted: 07/03/2017] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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- Sylvain Cremoux
- LAMIH, UMR CNRS 8201; Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambrésis; F-59313 Valenciennes France
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- Toulouse NeuroImaging Center; Université de Toulouse, Inserm, UPS; Toulouse France
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- Département de Kinésiologie; Université de Montréal; Montréal QC Canada
- School of Physical and Occupational Therapy; McGill University; Montréal QC Canada
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- Aix-Marseille Université; CNRS, ISM UMR 7287; Marseille Cedex 09 France
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- Toulouse NeuroImaging Center; Université de Toulouse, Inserm, UPS; Toulouse France
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Effect of training status on beta-range corticomuscular coherence in agonist vs. antagonist muscles during isometric knee contractions. Exp Brain Res 2017; 235:3023-3031. [DOI: 10.1007/s00221-017-5035-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2017] [Accepted: 07/15/2017] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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YOSHITAKE YASUHIDE, KANEHISA HIROAKI, SHINOHARA MINORU. Correlated EMG Oscillations between Antagonists during Cocontraction in Men. Med Sci Sports Exerc 2017; 49:538-548. [DOI: 10.1249/mss.0000000000001117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Nguyen HB, Lee SW, Harris-Love ML, Lum PS. Neural coupling between homologous muscles during bimanual tasks: effects of visual and somatosensory feedback. J Neurophysiol 2017; 117:655-664. [PMID: 27852730 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00269.2016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2016] [Accepted: 11/10/2016] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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While the effects of sensory feedback on bimanual tasks have been studied extensively at two ends of the motor control hierarchy, the cortical and behavioral levels, much less is known about how it affects the intermediate levels, including neural control of homologous muscle groups. We investigated the effects of somatosensory input on the neural coupling between homologous arm muscles during bimanual tasks. Twelve subjects performed symmetric elbow flexion/extension tasks under different types of sensory feedback. The first two types involve visual feedback, with one imposing stricter force symmetry than the other. The third incorporated somatosensory feedback via a balancing apparatus that forced the two limbs to produce equal force levels. Although the force error did not differ between feedback conditions, the somatosensory feedback significantly increased temporal coupling of bilateral force production, indicated by a high correlation between left/right force profiles (P < 0.001). More importantly, intermuscular coherence between biceps brachii muscles was significantly higher with somatosensory feedback than others (P = 0.001). Coherence values also significantly differed between tasks (flexion/extension). Notably, whereas feedback type mainly modulated coherence in the α- and γ-bands, task type only affected β-band coherence. Similar feedback effects were observed for triceps brachii muscles, but there was also a strong phase effect on the coherence values (P < 0.001) that could have diluted feedback effects. These results suggest that somatosensory feedback can significantly increase neural coupling between homologous muscles. Additionally, the between-task difference in β-band coherence may reflect different neural control strategies for the elbow flexor and extensor muscles. NEW & NOTEWORTHY This study investigated the effects of somatosensory feedback during bimanual tasks on the neural coupling between arm muscles, which remains largely unexplored. Somatosensory feedback using a balancing apparatus, compared with visual feedback, significantly increased neural coupling between homologous muscles (indicated by intermuscular coherence values) and improved temporal correlation of bilateral force production. Notably, feedback type modulated coherence in the α- and γ-bands (more subcortical pathways), whereas task type mainly affected β-band coherence (corticospinal pathway).
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- Hoi B Nguyen
- Center for Applied Biomechanics and Rehabilitation Research, MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital, Washington, District of Columbia.,Department of Biomedical Engineering, Catholic University of America, Washington, District of Columbia
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- Center for Applied Biomechanics and Rehabilitation Research, MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital, Washington, District of Columbia; .,Department of Biomedical Engineering, Catholic University of America, Washington, District of Columbia.,Center for Brain Plasticity and Recovery, Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia; and
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- Center for Brain Plasticity and Recovery, Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia; and.,Department of Rehabilitation Science, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia
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- Center for Applied Biomechanics and Rehabilitation Research, MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital, Washington, District of Columbia.,Department of Biomedical Engineering, Catholic University of America, Washington, District of Columbia.,Center for Brain Plasticity and Recovery, Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia; and
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Individual difference in β-band corticomuscular coherence and its relation to force steadiness during isometric voluntary ankle dorsiflexion in healthy humans. Clin Neurophysiol 2016; 128:303-311. [PMID: 28042996 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2016.11.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2016] [Revised: 11/24/2016] [Accepted: 11/26/2016] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Magnitude of β-band coherent neural activities between the sensorimotor cortex and contracting muscle is known to vary across healthy individuals. To clarify how this variance affects actual motor function, this study examined associations between the corticomuscular coherence (CMC) and force steadiness. METHODS CMC was calculated between scalp electroencephalograms (EEGs) over the sensorimotor cortex and surface electromyograms (EMGs) from the tibialis anterior muscle during tonic isometric voluntary ankle dorsiflexion at 30% of maximal effort in 22 healthy individuals. We calculated the maximal peak of CMC (CMCmax), and examined its relations to some measures of force fluctuation, such as the coefficient of variation (ForceCV), the sum of the power spectral density within 1-4Hz (Forceδ-PSD), 5-14Hz (Forceα-PSD), and 15-35Hz (Forceβ-PSD) bands of force signal. RESULTS In all participants showing significant CMC, CMCmax was observed within the β-band. CMCmax was varied across participants (range, 0.084-0.451), and was correlated significantly and positively with ForceCV (r=0.602, p=0.003), Forceβ-PSD (r=0.637, p=0.001), Forceα-PSD (r=0.647, p=0.001), and Forceδ-PSD (r=0.518, p=0.014). CONCLUSION The magnitude of the CMC between EEG over the sensorimotor cortex and EMG of contracting muscle is associated with the amount of force fluctuation during tonic isometric voluntary ankle dorsiflexion in healthy humans. SIGNIFICANCE CMC may influence an individual's ability to stabilize their muscle force output.
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Yang Y, Solis-Escalante T, van de Ruit M, van der Helm FCT, Schouten AC. Nonlinear Coupling between Cortical Oscillations and Muscle Activity during Isotonic Wrist Flexion. Front Comput Neurosci 2016; 10:126. [PMID: 27999537 PMCID: PMC5138209 DOI: 10.3389/fncom.2016.00126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2016] [Accepted: 11/25/2016] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Coupling between cortical oscillations and muscle activity facilitates neuronal communication during motor control. The linear part of this coupling, known as corticomuscular coherence, has received substantial attention, even though neuronal communication underlying motor control has been demonstrated to be highly nonlinear. A full assessment of corticomuscular coupling, including the nonlinear part, is essential to understand the neuronal communication within the sensorimotor system. In this study, we applied the recently developed n:m coherence method to assess nonlinear corticomuscular coupling during isotonic wrist flexion. The n:m coherence is a generalized metric for quantifying nonlinear cross-frequency coupling as well as linear iso-frequency coupling. By using independent component analysis (ICA) and equivalent current dipole source localization, we identify four sensorimotor related brain areas based on the locations of the dipoles, i.e., the contralateral primary sensorimotor areas, supplementary motor area (SMA), prefrontal area (PFA) and posterior parietal cortex (PPC). For all these areas, linear coupling between electroencephalogram (EEG) and electromyogram (EMG) is present with peaks in the beta band (15–35 Hz), while nonlinear coupling is detected with both integer (1:2, 1:3, 1:4) and non-integer (2:3) harmonics. Significant differences between brain areas is shown in linear coupling with stronger coherence for the primary sensorimotor areas and motor association cortices (SMA, PFA) compared to the sensory association area (PPC); but not for the nonlinear coupling. Moreover, the detected nonlinear coupling is similar to previously reported nonlinear coupling of cortical activity to somatosensory stimuli. We suggest that the descending motor pathways mainly contribute to linear corticomuscular coupling, while nonlinear coupling likely originates from sensory feedback.
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- Yuan Yang
- Neuromuscular Control Laboratory, Department of Biomechanical Engineering, Delft University of Technology Delft, Netherlands
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- Neuromuscular Control Laboratory, Department of Biomechanical Engineering, Delft University of Technology Delft, Netherlands
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- Neuromuscular Control Laboratory, Department of Biomechanical Engineering, Delft University of Technology Delft, Netherlands
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- Neuromuscular Control Laboratory, Department of Biomechanical Engineering, Delft University of Technology Delft, Netherlands
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- Neuromuscular Control Laboratory, Department of Biomechanical Engineering, Delft University of TechnologyDelft, Netherlands; MIRA Institute for Biomedical Technology and Technical Medicine, University of TwenteEnschede, Netherlands
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Xu Y, McClelland VM, Cvetkovic Z, Mills KR. Corticomuscular Coherence With Time Lag With Application to Delay Estimation. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 2016; 64:588-600. [PMID: 27214885 DOI: 10.1109/tbme.2016.2569492] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Functional coupling between the motor cortex and muscle activity is usually detected and characterized using the spectral method of corticomuscular coherence (CMC). This functional coupling occurs with a time delay, which, if not properly accounted for, may decrease the coherence and make the synchrony difficult to detect. In this paper, we introduce the concept of CMC with time lag (CMCTL), that is the coherence between segments of motor cortex electroencephalogram (EEG) and electromyography (EMG) signals displaced from a central observation point. This concept is motivated by the need to compensate for the unknown delay between coupled cortex and muscle processes. We demonstrate using simulated data that under certain conditions the time lag between EEG and EMG segments at points of local maxima of CMCTL corresponds to the average delay along the involved corticomuscular conduction pathways. Using neurophysiological data, we then show that CMCTL with appropriate time lag enhances the coherence between cortical and muscle signals, and that time lags which correspond to local maxima of CMCTL provide estimates of delays involved in corticomuscular coupling that are consistent with the underlying physiology.
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Charissou C, Vigouroux L, Berton E, Amarantini D. Fatigue- and training-related changes in ‘beta’ intermuscular interactions between agonist muscles. J Electromyogr Kinesiol 2016; 27:52-9. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jelekin.2016.02.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2015] [Revised: 01/14/2016] [Accepted: 02/01/2016] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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The influence of unilateral contraction of hand muscles on the contralateral corticomuscular coherence during bimanual motor tasks. Neuropsychologia 2016; 85:199-207. [PMID: 27018484 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.03.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2015] [Revised: 02/20/2016] [Accepted: 03/23/2016] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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The mechanisms behind how muscle contractions in one hand influence corticomuscular coherence in the opposite hand are still undetermined. Twenty-two subjects were recruited to finish bimanual and unimanual motor tasks. In the unimanual tasks, subjects performed precision grip using their right hand with visual feedback of exerted forces. The bimanual tasks involved simultaneous finger abduction of their left hand with visual feedback and precision grip of their right hand. They were divided into four conditions according to the two contraction levels of the left-hand muscles and whether visual feedback existed for the right hand. Measures of coherence and power spectrum were calculated from EEG and EMG data and statistically analyzed to identify changes in corticomuscular coupling and oscillatory activity. Results showed that compared with the unimanual task, a significant increase in the mean corticomuscular coherence of the right hand was found when left-hand muscles contracted at 5% of the maximal isometric voluntary contraction (MVC). No significant changes were found when the contraction level was 50% of the MVC. Furthermore, both the increase of muscle contraction levels and the elimination of visual feedback for right hand can significantly decrease the corticomuscular coupling in right hand during bimanual tasks. In summary, the involvement of moderate left-hand muscle contractions resulted in an increase tendency of corticomuscular coherence in right hand while strong left-hand muscle contractions eliminated it. We speculated that the perturbation of activities in one corticospinal tract resulted from the movement of the opposite hand can enhance the corticomuscular coupling when attention distraction is limited.
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Causal evidence that intrinsic beta-frequency is relevant for enhanced signal propagation in the motor system as shown through rhythmic TMS. Neuroimage 2015; 126:120-30. [PMID: 26584867 PMCID: PMC4739512 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.11.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2015] [Revised: 10/02/2015] [Accepted: 11/09/2015] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Correlative evidence provides support for the idea that brain oscillations underpin neural computations. Recent work using rhythmic stimulation techniques in humans provide causal evidence but the interactions of these external signals with intrinsic rhythmicity remain unclear. Here, we show that sensorimotor cortex follows externally applied rhythmic TMS (rTMS) stimulation in the beta-band but that the elicited responses are strongest at the intrinsic individual beta peak frequency. While these entrainment effects are of short duration, even subthreshold rTMS pulses propagate through the network and elicit significant cortico-spinal coupling, particularly when stimulated at the individual beta-frequency. Our results show that externally enforced rhythmicity interacts with intrinsic brain rhythms such that the individual peak frequency determines the effect of rTMS. The observed downstream spinal effect at the resonance frequency provides evidence for the causal role of brain rhythms for signal propagation.
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