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Gharabaghi A, Cebi I, Leavitt D, Scherer M, Bookjans P, Brunnett B, Milosevic L, Weiss D. Randomized crossover trial on motor and non-motor outcome of directional deep brain stimulation in Parkinson's disease. NPJ Parkinsons Dis 2024; 10:204. [PMID: 39461964 DOI: 10.1038/s41531-024-00812-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2024] [Accepted: 10/02/2024] [Indexed: 10/28/2024] Open
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Deep brain stimulation (DBS) with electric field steering may avoid areas responsible for side effects. This prospective randomized cross-over trial compared omnidirectional (OS) and directional (DS) subthalamic DBS in 19 patients. Electromyographically measured rigidity was the primary outcome. Motor and non-motor scores were secondary outcomes. There were no significant differences between OS and DS. In the acute setting, both conditions improved motor scores compared to no stimulation. Motor symptoms improved after 3 weeks of OS relative to acute measurements, whereas they worsened under DS. The more ventral the active contact, and the less the motor improvement sweet spot was stimulated, the greater the benefit of DS over OS for executive function. Accurate OS of the dorsal subthalamic nucleus ensures motor and non-motor improvements. While DS can mitigate executive decline stemming from off-target stimulation, it may lead to worse motor outcomes. Larger, long-term studies are needed to confirm these findings. (Registration: subthalamic steering for therapy optimization in Parkinson's Disease ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT03548506, 2018-06-06).
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- Alireza Gharabaghi
- Institute for Neuromodulation and Neurotechnology, University Hospital and University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
- Center for Bionic Intelligence Tübingen Stuttgart (BITS), Tübingen, Germany.
- German Center for Mental Health (DZPG), Tübingen, Germany.
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- Institute for Neuromodulation and Neurotechnology, University Hospital and University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- Center for Neurology, Department for Neurodegenerative Diseases, and Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Institute for Neuromodulation and Neurotechnology, University Hospital and University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- Max-Planck-Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany
- Clinical and Computational Neuroscience, Krembil Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Institute for Neuromodulation and Neurotechnology, University Hospital and University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- Clinical and Computational Neuroscience, Krembil Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Institute for Neuromodulation and Neurotechnology, University Hospital and University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Institute for Neuromodulation and Neurotechnology, University Hospital and University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Institute for Neuromodulation and Neurotechnology, University Hospital and University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- Clinical and Computational Neuroscience, Krembil Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Center for Neurology, Department for Neurodegenerative Diseases, and Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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Hacker ML, Isaacs DA, Rajamani N, Pazira K, Abdou E, Sharp S, Davis TL, Hedera P, Phibbs FT, Charles D, Horn A. Evaluating a motor progression connectivity model across Parkinson's disease stages. J Neurol 2024:10.1007/s00415-024-12703-8. [PMID: 39373780 DOI: 10.1007/s00415-024-12703-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2024] [Revised: 09/13/2024] [Accepted: 09/14/2024] [Indexed: 10/08/2024]
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BACKGROUND Stimulation of a specific site in the dorsolateral subthalamic nucleus (STN) was recently associated with slower motor progression in Parkinson's Disease (PD), based on the deep brain stimulation (DBS) in early-stage PD pilot clinical trial. Here, subject-level visualizations are presented of this early-stage PD dataset to further describe the relationship between active contacts and motor progression. This study also evaluates whether stimulation of the sweet spot and connectivity model associated with slower motor progression is also associated with improvements in long-term motor outcomes in patients with advanced-stage PD. METHODS Active contacts of the early-stage PD cohort (N = 14) were analyzed alongside the degree of two-year motor progression. Sweet spot and connectivity models derived from the early-stage PD cohort were then used to determine how well they can estimate the variance in long-term motor outcomes in an independent STN-DBS cohort of advanced-stage PD patients (N = 29). RESULTS In early-stage PD, proximity of stimulation to the dorsolateral STN was associated with slower motor progression. In advanced-stage PD, stimulation proximity to the early PD connectivity model and sweet spot were associated with better long-term motor outcomes (R = 0.60, P < 0.001; R = 0.37, P = 0.046, respectively). CONCLUSIONS Results suggest stimulation of a specific site in the dorsolateral STN is associated with both slower motor progression and long-term motor improvements in PD.
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- Mallory L Hacker
- Department of Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
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- Department of Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Movement Disorder and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Charité, Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt- Universität Zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics Department of Neurology Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Movement Disorder and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Charité, Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt- Universität Zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics Department of Neurology Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Neurosurgery and Center for Neurotechnology and Neurorecovery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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Halász L, Sajonz BEA, Miklós G, van Elswijk G, Hagh Gooie S, Várkuti B, Tamás G, Coenen VA, Erōss L. Predictive modeling of sensory responses in deep brain stimulation. Front Neurol 2024; 15:1467307. [PMID: 39410997 PMCID: PMC11473379 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2024.1467307] [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: 07/19/2024] [Accepted: 09/18/2024] [Indexed: 10/19/2024] Open
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Introduction Although stimulation-induced sensations are typically considered undesirable side effects in clinical DBS therapy, there are emerging scenarios, such as computer-brain interface applications, where these sensations may be intentionally created. The selection of stimulation parameters, whether to avoid or induce sensations, is a challenging task due to the vast parameter space involved. This study aims to streamline DBS parameter selection by employing a machine learning model to predict the occurrence and somatic location of paresthesias in response to thalamic DBS. Methods We used a dataset comprising 3,359 paresthetic sensations collected from 18 thalamic DBS leads from 10 individuals in two clinical centers. For each stimulation, we modeled the Volume of Tissue Activation (VTA). We then used the stimulation parameters and the VTA information to train a machine learning model to predict the occurrence of sensations and their corresponding somatic areas. Results Our results show fair to substantial agreement with ground truth in predicting the presence and somatic location of DBS-evoked paresthesias, with Kappa values ranging from 0.31 to 0.72. We observed comparable performance in predicting the presence of paresthesias for both seen and unseen cases (Kappa 0.72 vs. 0.60). However, Kappa agreement for predicting specific somatic locations was significantly lower for unseen cases (0.53 vs. 0.31). Conclusion The results suggest that machine learning can potentially be used to optimize DBS parameter selection, leading to faster and more efficient postoperative management. Outcome predictions may be used to guide clinical DBS programming or tuning of DBS based computer-brain interfaces.
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- László Halász
- Institute of Neurosurgery and Neurointervention, Faculty of Medicine, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
- Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical School, Doctoral School of Clinical Medicine, Clinical and Experimental Research for Reconstructive and Organ-Sparing Surgery, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
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- Department of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, Medical Center of Freiburg University and Medical Faculty of Freiburg University, Freiburg, Germany
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- Institute of Neurosurgery and Neurointervention, Faculty of Medicine, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
- János Szentágothai Doctoral School of Neurosciences, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
- CereGate GmbH, München, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, Medical Center of Freiburg University and Medical Faculty of Freiburg University, Freiburg, Germany
- Center for Deep Brain Stimulation, Freiburg University, Freiburg, Germany
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- Institute of Neurosurgery and Neurointervention, Faculty of Medicine, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
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Provenza NR, Reddy S, Allam AK, Rajesh SV, Diab N, Reyes G, Caston RM, Katlowitz KA, Gandhi AD, Bechtold RA, Dang HQ, Najera RA, Giridharan N, Kabotyanski KE, Momin F, Hasen M, Banks GP, Mickey BJ, Kious BM, Shofty B, Hayden BY, Herron JA, Storch EA, Patel AB, Goodman WK, Sheth SA. Disruption of neural periodicity predicts clinical response after deep brain stimulation for obsessive-compulsive disorder. Nat Med 2024; 30:3004-3014. [PMID: 38997607 PMCID: PMC11485242 DOI: 10.1038/s41591-024-03125-0] [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: 07/21/2023] [Accepted: 06/11/2024] [Indexed: 07/14/2024]
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Recent advances in surgical neuromodulation have enabled chronic and continuous intracranial monitoring during everyday life. We used this opportunity to identify neural predictors of clinical state in 12 individuals with treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) receiving deep brain stimulation (DBS) therapy ( NCT05915741 ). We developed our neurobehavioral models based on continuous neural recordings in the region of the ventral striatum in an initial cohort of five patients and tested and validated them in a held-out cohort of seven additional patients. Before DBS activation, in the most symptomatic state, theta/alpha (9 Hz) power evidenced a prominent circadian pattern and a high degree of predictability. In patients with persistent symptoms (non-responders), predictability of the neural data remained consistently high. On the other hand, in patients who improved symptomatically (responders), predictability of the neural data was significantly diminished. This neural feature accurately classified clinical status even in patients with limited duration recordings, indicating generalizability that could facilitate therapeutic decision-making.
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- Nicole R Provenza
- Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
- Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
- Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
- Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
- Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
- Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
- Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
- Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA.
- Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
- Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
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Nanda P, Sisterson N, Walton A, Chu CJ, Cash SS, Moura LMVR, Oster JM, Urban A, Richardson RM. Centromedian region thalamic responsive neurostimulation mitigates idiopathic generalized and multifocal epilepsy with focal to bilateral tonic-clonic seizures. Epilepsia 2024. [PMID: 39052021 DOI: 10.1111/epi.18070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2024] [Revised: 07/03/2024] [Accepted: 07/10/2024] [Indexed: 07/27/2024]
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OBJECTIVE Although >30% of epilepsy patients have drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE), typically those with generalized or multifocal disease have not traditionally been considered surgical candidates. Responsive neurostimulation (RNS) of the centromedian (CM) region of the thalamus now appears to be a promising therapeutic option for this patient population. We present outcomes following CM RNS for 13 patients with idiopathic generalized epilepsy (IGE) and eight with multifocal onsets that rapidly generalize to bilateral tonic-clonic (focal to bilateral tonic-clonic [FBTC]) seizures. METHODS A retrospective review of all patients undergoing bilateral CM RNS by the senior author through July 2022 were reviewed. Electrodes were localized and volumes of tissue activation were modeled in Lead-DBS. Changes in patient seizure frequency were extracted from electronic medical records. RESULTS Twenty-one patients with DRE underwent bilateral CM RNS implantation. For 17 patients with at least 1 year of postimplantation follow-up, average seizure reduction from preoperative baseline was 82.6% (SD = 19.0%, median = 91.7%), with 18% of patients Engel class 1, 29% Engel class 2, 53% Engel class 3, and 0% Engel class 4. There was a trend for average seizure reduction to be greater for patients with nonlesional FBTC seizures than for other patients. For patients achieving at least Engel class 3 outcome, median time to worthwhile seizure reduction was 203.5 days (interquartile range = 110.5-343.75 days). Patients with IGE with myoclonic seizures had a significantly shorter time to worthwhile seizure reduction than other patients. The surgical targeting strategy evolved after the first four subjects to achieve greater anatomic accuracy. SIGNIFICANCE Patients with both primary and rapidly generalized epilepsy who underwent CM RNS experienced substantial seizure relief. Subsets of these patient populations may particularly benefit from CM RNS. The refinement of lead targeting, tuning of RNS system parameters, and patient selection are ongoing areas of investigation.
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- Pranav Nanda
- Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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Semenova U, Dzhalagoniya I, Gamaleya A, Tomskiy A, Shaikh AG, Sedov A. Pallidal multifractal complexity is a new potential physiomarker of dystonia. Clin Neurophysiol 2024; 162:31-40. [PMID: 38555665 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2024.03.012] [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: 05/30/2023] [Revised: 01/11/2024] [Accepted: 03/12/2024] [Indexed: 04/02/2024]
Abstract
OBJECTIVE Low-frequency 4-12 Hz pallidal oscillations are being considered as potential physiomarkers for dystonia. We suggest investigating the multifractal properties of pallidal activity as an additional marker. METHODS We employed local field potentials (LFP) recordings from 23 patients with dystonia who were undergoing deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery to explore the connection between disease severity and the multifractal characteristics of pallidal activity. Furthermore, we performed an analysis of LFP recordings from four patients, following the externalization of DBS lead electrodes, to investigate the impact of DBS and neck muscle vibration on multifractal parameters. RESULTS Greater dystonia severity exhibited a correlation with a narrower multifractal spectrum width but higher multifractal spectral asymmetry. Both GPi DBS and muscle vibration in dystonia patients expanded the multifractal spectrum width while restoring multifractal spectral symmetry. Notably, the threshold peak intensities for an increase in multifractal spectrum width substantially overlapped with the optimal volume of tissue activated. A broader multifractal spectrum during DBS corresponded to more favorable clinical outcomes. CONCLUSIONS Multifractal properties of pallidal neuronal activity serve as indicators of neural dysfunction in dystonia. SIGNIFICANCE These findings suggest the potential of utilizing multifractal characteristics as predictive factors for the DBS outcome in dystonia.
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- Ulia Semenova
- N.N.Semenov Federal Research Center for Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation.
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- N.N.Semenov Federal Research Center for Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation
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- N.N. Burdenko National Scientific and Practical Center for Neurosurgery, Moscow, Russian Federation
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- N.N. Burdenko National Scientific and Practical Center for Neurosurgery, Moscow, Russian Federation
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- Departments of Neurology and Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA; Neurological Institute, University Hospitals, Cleveland, OH, USA; Neurology Service, Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- N.N.Semenov Federal Research Center for Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation; Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudny, Moscow Region, Russian Federation
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Rajamani N, Friedrich H, Butenko K, Dembek T, Lange F, Navrátil P, Zvarova P, Hollunder B, de Bie RMA, Odekerken VJJ, Volkmann J, Xu X, Ling Z, Yao C, Ritter P, Neumann WJ, Skandalakis GP, Komaitis S, Kalyvas A, Koutsarnakis C, Stranjalis G, Barbe M, Milanese V, Fox MD, Kühn AA, Middlebrooks E, Li N, Reich M, Neudorfer C, Horn A. Deep brain stimulation of symptom-specific networks in Parkinson's disease. Nat Commun 2024; 15:4662. [PMID: 38821913 PMCID: PMC11143329 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-48731-1] [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: 03/14/2023] [Accepted: 05/13/2024] [Indexed: 06/02/2024] Open
Abstract
Deep Brain Stimulation can improve tremor, bradykinesia, rigidity, and axial symptoms in patients with Parkinson's disease. Potentially, improving each symptom may require stimulation of different white matter tracts. Here, we study a large cohort of patients (N = 237 from five centers) to identify tracts associated with improvements in each of the four symptom domains. Tremor improvements were associated with stimulation of tracts connected to primary motor cortex and cerebellum. In contrast, axial symptoms are associated with stimulation of tracts connected to the supplementary motor cortex and brainstem. Bradykinesia and rigidity improvements are associated with the stimulation of tracts connected to the supplementary motor and premotor cortices, respectively. We introduce an algorithm that uses these symptom-response tracts to suggest optimal stimulation parameters for DBS based on individual patient's symptom profiles. Application of the algorithm illustrates that our symptom-tract library may bear potential in personalizing stimulation treatment based on the symptoms that are most burdensome in an individual patient.
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- Nanditha Rajamani
- Movement Disorder and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
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- Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics Department of Neurology Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- University of Würzburg, Faculty of Medicine, Josef-Schneider-Str. 2, 97080, Würzburg, Germany
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- Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics Department of Neurology Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics Department of Neurology Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Neurology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University Clinic of Würzburg, Josef-Schneider-Str. 11, 97080, Würzburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University Clinic of Würzburg, Josef-Schneider-Str. 11, 97080, Würzburg, Germany
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- Movement Disorder and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Einstein Center Digital Future, Berlin, 10117, Germany
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- Movement Disorder and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Einstein Center Digital Future, Berlin, 10117, Germany
- Brain Simulation Section, Department of Neurology, Charité University Medicine Berlin and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, 10117, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, University Clinic of Würzburg, Josef-Schneider-Str. 11, 97080, Würzburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, 100853, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Hainan Hospital of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Sanya, Hainan, 572000, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, The National Key Clinic Specialty, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Neurosurgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University, Shenzhen Second People's Hospital, Shenzhen, 518035, China
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- Movement Disorder and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Einstein Center Digital Future, Berlin, 10117, Germany
- Brain Simulation Section, Department of Neurology, Charité University Medicine Berlin and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, 10117, Germany
- Bernstein center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin, Berlin, 10117, Germany
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- Movement Disorder and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Section of Neurosurgery, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, 03756, USA
- Department of Neurosurgery, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School, Evangelismos General Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Neurosurgery, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School, Evangelismos General Hospital, Athens, Greece
- Centre for Spinal Studies and Surgery, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham, UK
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- Department of Neurosurgery, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School, Evangelismos General Hospital, Athens, Greece
- Division of Neurosurgery, Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Neurosurgery, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School, Evangelismos General Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Neurosurgery, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School, Evangelismos General Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Neurology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Neurosurgical Division, Hospital Beneficência Portuguesa de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
- Department of Neurosurgery, Mayo Clinic, Florida, USA
- Movement Disorders and Neuromodulation Unit, DOMMO Clinic, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics Department of Neurology Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
- Brain Modulation Lab, Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
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- Movement Disorder and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Einstein Center Digital Future, Berlin, 10117, Germany
- Brain Simulation Section, Department of Neurology, Charité University Medicine Berlin and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, 10117, Germany
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- Movement Disorder and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University Clinic of Würzburg, Josef-Schneider-Str. 11, 97080, Würzburg, Germany
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- Movement Disorder and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics Department of Neurology Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
- Brain Modulation Lab, Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
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- Movement Disorder and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics Department of Neurology Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
- Brain Modulation Lab, Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
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Vogel D, Nordin T, Feiler S, Wårdell K, Coste J, Lemaire JJ, Hemm S. Probabilistic stimulation mapping from intra-operative thalamic deep brain stimulation data in essential tremor. J Neural Eng 2024; 21:036017. [PMID: 38701768 DOI: 10.1088/1741-2552/ad4742] [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: 11/17/2023] [Accepted: 05/03/2024] [Indexed: 05/05/2024]
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Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a therapy for Parkinson's disease (PD) and essential tremor (ET). The mechanism of action of DBS is still incompletely understood. Retrospective group analysis of intra-operative data recorded from ET patients implanted in the ventral intermediate nucleus of the thalamus (Vim) is rare. Intra-operative stimulation tests generate rich data and their use in group analysis has not yet been explored.Objective.To implement, evaluate, and apply a group analysis workflow to generate probabilistic stimulation maps (PSMs) using intra-operative stimulation data from ET patients implanted in Vim.Approach.A group-specific anatomical template was constructed based on the magnetic resonance imaging scans of 6 ET patients and 13 PD patients. Intra-operative test data (total:n= 1821) from the 6 ET patients was analyzed: patient-specific electric field simulations together with tremor assessments obtained by a wrist-based acceleration sensor were transferred to this template. Occurrence and weighted mean maps were generated. Voxels associated with symptomatic response were identified through a linear mixed model approach to form a PSM. Improvements predicted by the PSM were compared to those clinically assessed. Finally, the PSM clusters were compared to those obtained in a multicenter study using data from chronic stimulation effects in ET.Main results.Regions responsible for improvement identified on the PSM were in the posterior sub-thalamic area (PSA) and at the border between the Vim and ventro-oral nucleus of the thalamus (VO). The comparison with literature revealed a center-to-center distance of less than 5 mm and an overlap score (Dice) of 0.4 between the significant clusters. Our workflow and intra-operative test data from 6 ET-Vim patients identified effective stimulation areas in PSA and around Vim and VO, affirming existing medical literature.Significance.This study supports the potential of probabilistic analysis of intra-operative stimulation test data to reveal DBS's action mechanisms and to assist surgical planning.
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- Dorian Vogel
- Institute for Medical Engineering and Medical Informatics, School of Life Sciences, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Hofackerstrasse 30, Muttenz, Switzerland
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Linköping University, Campus US, Linköping, Sweden
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- Dynamics and statistics of complex systems, School of Life Sciences, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Hofackerstrasse 30, Muttenz, Switzerland
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- Institute for Medical Engineering and Medical Informatics, School of Life Sciences, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Hofackerstrasse 30, Muttenz, Switzerland
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Linköping University, Campus US, Linköping, Sweden
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, SIGMA Clermont, Institut Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France
- Service de Neurochirurgie, Hôpital Gabriel-Montpied, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Clermont-Ferrand, 58 rue Montalembert, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, SIGMA Clermont, Institut Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France
- Service de Neurochirurgie, Hôpital Gabriel-Montpied, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Clermont-Ferrand, 58 rue Montalembert, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Institute for Medical Engineering and Medical Informatics, School of Life Sciences, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Hofackerstrasse 30, Muttenz, Switzerland
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Linköping University, Campus US, Linköping, Sweden
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Elias GJB, Germann J, Joel SE, Li N, Horn A, Boutet A, Lozano AM. A large normative connectome for exploring the tractographic correlates of focal brain interventions. Sci Data 2024; 11:353. [PMID: 38589407 PMCID: PMC11002007 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-024-03197-0] [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: 09/25/2023] [Accepted: 03/28/2024] [Indexed: 04/10/2024] Open
Abstract
Diffusion-weighted MRI (dMRI) is a widely used neuroimaging modality that permits the in vivo exploration of white matter connections in the human brain. Normative structural connectomics - the application of large-scale, group-derived dMRI datasets to out-of-sample cohorts - have increasingly been leveraged to study the network correlates of focal brain interventions, insults, and other regions-of-interest (ROIs). Here, we provide a normative, whole-brain connectome in MNI space that enables researchers to interrogate fiber streamlines that are likely perturbed by given ROIs, even in the absence of subject-specific dMRI data. Assembled from multi-shell dMRI data of 985 healthy Human Connectome Project subjects using generalized Q-sampling imaging and multispectral normalization techniques, this connectome comprises ~12 million unique streamlines, the largest to date. It has already been utilized in at least 18 peer-reviewed publications, most frequently in the context of neuromodulatory interventions like deep brain stimulation and focused ultrasound. Now publicly available, this connectome will constitute a useful tool for understanding the wider impact of focal brain perturbations on white matter architecture going forward.
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- Gavin J B Elias
- Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, University Health Network and University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- Krembil Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, University Health Network and University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- Krembil Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- Center for Advancing Neurotechnological Innovation to Application (CRANIA), University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Neurology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Einstein Center for Neurosciences Berlin, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics, Department of Neurology, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
- Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
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- Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, University Health Network and University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- Krembil Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- Joint Department of Medical Imaging, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, University Health Network and University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
- Krembil Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
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Ebden M, Elkaim LM, Breitbart S, Yan H, Warsi N, Huynh M, Mithani K, Venetucci Gouveia F, Fasano A, Ibrahim GM, Gorodetsky C. Chronic Pallidal Local Field Potentials Are Associated With Dystonic Symptoms in Children. Neuromodulation 2024; 27:551-556. [PMID: 37768258 DOI: 10.1016/j.neurom.2023.08.003] [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: 03/05/2023] [Revised: 08/07/2023] [Accepted: 08/18/2023] [Indexed: 09/29/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Novel deep brain stimulation devices can record local field potentials (LFPs), which represent the synchronous synaptic activity of neuronal populations. The clinical relevance of LFPs in patients with dystonia remains unclear. OBJECTIVES We sought to determine whether chronic LFPs recorded from the globus pallidus internus (GPi) were associated with symptoms of dystonia in children. MATERIALS AND METHODS Ten patients with heterogeneous forms of dystonia (genetic and acquired) were implanted with neurostimulators that recorded LFP spectral snapshots. Spectra were compared across parent-reported asymptomatic and symptomatic periods, with daily narrowband data superimposed in 24 one-hour bins. RESULTS Spectral power increased during periods of registered dystonic symptoms: mean increase = 102%, CI: (76.7, 132). Circadian rhythms within the LFP narrowband time series correlated with dystonic symptoms: for delta/theta-waves, correlation = 0.33, CI: (0.18, 0.47) and for alpha waves, correlation = 0.27, CI: (0.14, 0.40). CONCLUSIONS LFP spectra recorded in the GPi indicate a circadian pattern and are associated with the manifestation of dystonic symptoms.
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- Mark Ebden
- Neurosciences and Mental Health Program, the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Division of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Division of Neurosurgery, the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Division of Neurosurgery, the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Division of Neurosurgery, the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Neurosciences and Mental Health Program, the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Neurosciences and Mental Health Program, the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Edmond J. Safra Program in Parkinson's Disease, Morton and Gloria Shulman Movement Disorders Clinic, Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Division of Neurology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Krembil Brain Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; CenteR for Advancing Neurotechnological Innovation to Application, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Division of Neurosurgery, the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Division of Neurology, the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Pediatrics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Calvano A, Kleinholdermann U, Heun AS, Bopp MHA, Nimsky C, Timmermann L, Pedrosa DJ. Structural connectivity of low-frequency subthalamic stimulation for improving stride length in Parkinson's disease. Neuroimage Clin 2024; 42:103591. [PMID: 38507954 PMCID: PMC10965492 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2024.103591] [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: 01/19/2024] [Revised: 03/07/2024] [Accepted: 03/13/2024] [Indexed: 03/22/2024]
Abstract
BACKGROUND A reduction in stride length is considered a key characteristic of gait kinematics in Parkinson's disease (PD) and has been identified as a predictor of falls. Although low-frequency stimulation (LFS) has been suggested as a method to improve gait characteristics, the underlying structural network is not well understood. OBJECTIVE This study aims to investigate the structural correlates of changes in stride length during LFS (85 Hz). METHODS Objective gait performance was retrospectively evaluated in 19 PD patients who underwent deep brain stimulation (DBS) at 85 Hz and 130 Hz. Individual DBS contacts and volumes of activated tissue (VAT) were computed using preoperative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and postoperative computed tomography (CT) scans. Structural connectivity profiles to predetermined cortical and mesencephalic areas were estimated using a normative connectome. RESULTS LFS led to a significant improvement in stride length compared to 130 Hz stimulation. The intersection between VAT and the associative subregion of the subthalamic nucleus (STN) was associated with an improvement in stride length and had structural connections to the supplementary motor area, prefrontal cortex, and pedunculopontine nucleus. Conversely, we found that a lack of improvement was linked to stimulation volumes connected to cortico-diencephalic fibers bypassing the STN dorsolaterally. The robustness of the connectivity model was verified through leave-one-patient-out, 5-, and 10-fold cross cross-validation paradigms. CONCLUSION These findings offer new insights into the structural connectivity that underlies gait changes following LFS. Targeting the non-motor subregion of the STN with LFS on an individual level may present a potential therapeutic approach for PD patients with gait disorders.
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- Alexander Calvano
- Department of Neurology, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany; Center of Mind, Brain and Behaviour, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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- Center of Mind, Brain and Behaviour, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany; Department of Neurosurgery, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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- Center of Mind, Brain and Behaviour, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany; Department of Neurosurgery, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany; Center of Mind, Brain and Behaviour, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany; Center of Mind, Brain and Behaviour, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany.
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Chinichian N, Lindner M, Yanchuk S, Schwalger T, Schöll E, Berner R. Modeling brain network flexibility in networks of coupled oscillators: a feasibility study. Sci Rep 2024; 14:5713. [PMID: 38459077 PMCID: PMC10923875 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-55753-8] [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: 09/19/2023] [Accepted: 02/27/2024] [Indexed: 03/10/2024] Open
Abstract
Modeling the functionality of the human brain is a major goal in neuroscience for which many powerful methodologies have been developed over the last decade. The impact of working memory and the associated brain regions on the brain dynamics is of particular interest due to their connection with many functions and malfunctions in the brain. In this context, the concept of brain flexibility has been developed for the characterization of brain functionality. We discuss emergence of brain flexibility that is commonly measured by the identification of changes in the cluster structure of co-active brain regions. We provide evidence that brain flexibility can be modeled by a system of coupled FitzHugh-Nagumo oscillators where the network structure is obtained from human brain Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI). Additionally, we propose a straightforward and computationally efficient alternative macroscopic measure, which is derived from the Pearson distance of functional brain matrices. This metric exhibits similarities to the established patterns of brain template flexibility that have been observed in prior investigations. Furthermore, we explore the significance of the brain's network structure and the strength of connections between network nodes or brain regions associated with working memory in the observation of patterns in networks flexibility. This work enriches our understanding of the interplay between the structure and function of dynamic brain networks and proposes a modeling strategy to study brain flexibility.
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- Narges Chinichian
- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
- Psychiatry Department, Charité-Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany.
- Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Berlin, Germany.
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany
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- Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany
- Institute of Mathematics, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- School of Mathematical Sciences, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
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- Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Berlin, Germany
- Institute of Mathematics, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Berlin, Germany
- Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Department of Physics, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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Hollunder B, Ostrem JL, Sahin IA, Rajamani N, Oxenford S, Butenko K, Neudorfer C, Reinhardt P, Zvarova P, Polosan M, Akram H, Vissani M, Zhang C, Sun B, Navratil P, Reich MM, Volkmann J, Yeh FC, Baldermann JC, Dembek TA, Visser-Vandewalle V, Alho EJL, Franceschini PR, Nanda P, Finke C, Kühn AA, Dougherty DD, Richardson RM, Bergman H, DeLong MR, Mazzoni A, Romito LM, Tyagi H, Zrinzo L, Joyce EM, Chabardes S, Starr PA, Li N, Horn A. Mapping dysfunctional circuits in the frontal cortex using deep brain stimulation. Nat Neurosci 2024; 27:573-586. [PMID: 38388734 PMCID: PMC10917675 DOI: 10.1038/s41593-024-01570-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2023] [Accepted: 01/05/2024] [Indexed: 02/24/2024]
Abstract
Frontal circuits play a critical role in motor, cognitive and affective processing, and their dysfunction may result in a variety of brain disorders. However, exactly which frontal domains mediate which (dys)functions remains largely elusive. We studied 534 deep brain stimulation electrodes implanted to treat four different brain disorders. By analyzing which connections were modulated for optimal therapeutic response across these disorders, we segregated the frontal cortex into circuits that had become dysfunctional in each of them. Dysfunctional circuits were topographically arranged from occipital to frontal, ranging from interconnections with sensorimotor cortices in dystonia, the primary motor cortex in Tourette's syndrome, the supplementary motor area in Parkinson's disease, to ventromedial prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortices in obsessive-compulsive disorder. Our findings highlight the integration of deep brain stimulation with brain connectomics as a powerful tool to explore couplings between brain structure and functional impairments in the human brain.
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- Barbara Hollunder
- Movement Disorders and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Einstein Center for Neurosciences Berlin, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Movement Disorders and Neuromodulation Centre, Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Movement Disorders and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Einstein Center for Neurosciences Berlin, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Movement Disorders and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Movement Disorders and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Movement Disorders and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Einstein Center for Neurosciences Berlin, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
- Inserm, U1216, Grenoble Institut des Neurosciences, Grenoble, France
- Department of Psychiatry, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
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- Unit of Functional Neurosurgery, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, UK
- Victor Horsley Department of Neurosurgery, The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, UK
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy
- Department of Excellence in Robotics and AI, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Rujin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Rujin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Neurology, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
- Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Department of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Einstein Center for Neurosciences Berlin, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Department of Neurology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Movement Disorders and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Einstein Center for Neurosciences Berlin, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- NeuroCure Cluster of Excellence, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
- Department of Medical Neurobiology, Institute of Medical Research Israel-Canada, The Hebrew University, Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel
- Department of Neurosurgery, Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Department of Neurology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy
- Department of Excellence in Robotics and AI, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy
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- Parkinson and Movement Disorders Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milan, Italy
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- Unit of Functional Neurosurgery, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, UK
- Department of Neuropsychiatry, The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, UK
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- Unit of Functional Neurosurgery, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, UK
- Victor Horsley Department of Neurosurgery, The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, UK
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- Unit of Functional Neurosurgery, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, UK
- Department of Neuropsychiatry, The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, UK
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
- Inserm, U1216, Grenoble Institut des Neurosciences, Grenoble, France
- Department of Neurosurgery, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Movement Disorders and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
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- Movement Disorders and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
- Einstein Center for Neurosciences Berlin, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
- Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
- Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
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Béreau M, Kibleur A, Servant M, Clément G, Dujardin K, Rolland AS, Wirth T, Lagha-Boukbiza O, Voirin J, Santin MDN, Hainque E, Grabli D, Comte A, Drapier S, Durif F, Marques A, Eusebio A, Azulay JP, Giordana C, Houeto JL, Jarraya B, Maltete D, Rascol O, Rouaud T, Tir M, Moreau C, Danaila T, Prange S, Tatu L, Tranchant C, Corvol JC, Devos D, Thobois S, Desmarets M, Anheim M. Motivational and cognitive predictors of apathy after subthalamic nucleus stimulation in Parkinson's disease. Brain 2024; 147:472-485. [PMID: 37787488 DOI: 10.1093/brain/awad324] [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: 03/23/2023] [Revised: 07/13/2023] [Accepted: 08/21/2023] [Indexed: 10/04/2023] Open
Abstract
Postoperative apathy is a frequent symptom in Parkinson's disease patients who have undergone bilateral deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus. Two main hypotheses for postoperative apathy have been suggested: (i) dopaminergic withdrawal syndrome relative to postoperative dopaminergic drug tapering; and (ii) direct effect of chronic stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus. The primary objective of our study was to describe preoperative and 1-year postoperative apathy in Parkinson's disease patients who underwent chronic bilateral deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus. We also aimed to identify factors associated with 1-year postoperative apathy considering: (i) preoperative clinical phenotype; (ii) dopaminergic drug management; and (iii) volume of tissue activated within the subthalamic nucleus and the surrounding structures. We investigated a prospective clinical cohort of 367 patients before and 1 year after chronic bilateral deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus. We assessed apathy using the Lille Apathy Rating Scale and carried out a systematic evaluation of motor, cognitive and behavioural signs. We modelled the volume of tissue activated in 161 patients using the Lead-DBS toolbox and analysed overlaps within motor, cognitive and limbic parts of the subthalamic nucleus. Of the 367 patients, 94 (25.6%) exhibited 1-year postoperative apathy: 67 (18.2%) with 'de novo apathy' and 27 (7.4%) with 'sustained apathy'. We observed disappearance of preoperative apathy in 22 (6.0%) patients, who were classified as having 'reversed apathy'. Lastly, 251 (68.4%) patients had neither preoperative nor postoperative apathy and were classified as having 'no apathy'. We identified preoperative apathy score [odds ratio (OR) 1.16; 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.10, 1.22; P < 0.001], preoperative episodic memory free recall score (OR 0.93; 95% CI 0.88, 0.97; P = 0.003) and 1-year postoperative motor responsiveness (OR 0.98; 95% CI 0.96, 0.99; P = 0.009) as the main factors associated with postoperative apathy. We showed that neither dopaminergic dose reduction nor subthalamic stimulation were associated with postoperative apathy. Patients with 'sustained apathy' had poorer preoperative fronto-striatal cognitive status and a higher preoperative action initiation apathy subscore. In these patients, apathy score and cognitive status worsened postoperatively despite significantly lower reduction in dopamine agonists (P = 0.023), suggesting cognitive dopa-resistant apathy. Patients with 'reversed apathy' benefited from the psychostimulant effect of chronic stimulation of the limbic part of the left subthalamic nucleus (P = 0.043), suggesting motivational apathy. Our results highlight the need for careful preoperative assessment of motivational and cognitive components of apathy as well as executive functions in order to better prevent or manage postoperative apathy.
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- Matthieu Béreau
- Department of Neurology, NS-PARK/F-CRIN network, University Hospital of Besançon, 25030 Besançon Cedex, France
- UR LINC 481, Université de Franche-Comté, F-2500 Besançon, France
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- LIP/PC2S, Université Grenoble Alpes, Université Savoie Mont Blanc, 38040 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
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- UR LINC 481, Université de Franche-Comté, F-2500 Besançon, France
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- Department of Neurology, NS-PARK/F-CRIN network, University Hospital of Besançon, 25030 Besançon Cedex, France
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- Lille Neurosciences and Cognition, CHU-Lille, Neurology and Movement Disorders department, NS-Park/F-CRIN network, Univ. Lille, 59037 Lille, France
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- Lille Neurosciences and Cognition, CHU-Lille, Department of Medical Pharmacology, NS-Park/F-CRIN, Univ. Lille, Inserm, 59045 Lille, France
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- Service de Neurologie, NS-Park/F-CRIN network, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg et Fédération de Médecine Translationnelle de Médecine de Strasbourg, 67200 Strasbourg, France
- Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, INSERM-U964/CNRS-UMR7104/Université de Strasbourg, 67400 Illkirch, France
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- Service de Neurologie, NS-Park/F-CRIN network, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg et Fédération de Médecine Translationnelle de Médecine de Strasbourg, 67200 Strasbourg, France
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- Department of Neurosurgery, NS-PARK/F-CRIN network, Strasbourg University Hospital, 67200 Strasbourg, France
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- Department of Neurosurgery, NS-PARK/F-CRIN network, Strasbourg University Hospital, 67200 Strasbourg, France
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- Assistance publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Inserm, CNRS, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Department of Neurology, NS-Park/F-CRIN network, Sorbonne Université, Paris Brain Institute-ICM, 75014 Paris, France
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- Assistance publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Inserm, CNRS, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Department of Neurology, NS-Park/F-CRIN network, Sorbonne Université, Paris Brain Institute-ICM, 75014 Paris, France
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- UR LINC 481, Université de Franche-Comté, F-2500 Besançon, France
- Centre d'investigation clinique Inserm CIC 1431, CHU Besançon, F-25000 Besançon, France
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- Department of Neurology, NS-PARK/F-CRIN network, University Hospital of Rennes, 35000 Rennes, France
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- CNRS, Clermont Auvergne INP, Institut Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand University Hospital, Neurology department, NS-Park/F-CRIN network, Université Clermont Auvergne, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- CNRS, Clermont Auvergne INP, Institut Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand University Hospital, Neurology department, NS-Park/F-CRIN network, Université Clermont Auvergne, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Department of Neurology and Movement Disorders, APHM, Hôpital Universitaire Timone, 13005 Marseille, France
- CNRS, Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone, Aix Marseille Univ., 13005 Marseille, France
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- Department of Neurology and Movement Disorders, APHM, Hôpital Universitaire Timone, 13005 Marseille, France
- CNRS, Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone, Aix Marseille Univ., 13005 Marseille, France
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- Department of Neurology, NS-Park/F-CRIN network, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice, 06002 Nice, France
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- Department of Neurology, NS-Park/F-CRIN network, Limoges University Hospital, Inserm, U1094, EpiMaCT-Epidemiology of chronic diseases in tropical zone, Limoges University Hospital,87042 Limoges, France
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- Neuroscience Pole, NS-Park/F-CRIN network, Hôpital Foch, Suresnes, University of Versailles Paris-Saclay, INSERM-CEA NeuroSpin, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Department of Neurology, NS-Park/F-CRIN network, Rouen University Hospital and University of Rouen, 76000 Rouen, France
- INSERM U1239, Laboratory of Neuronal and Neuroendocrine Differentiation and Communication, 76130 Mont-Saint-Aignan, France
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- Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Neuroscience, CIC1436, NS-Park/F-CRIN network, NeuroToul Center of Excellence, Toulouse University Hospital, INSERM, CHU of Toulouse, 31000 Toulouse, France
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- Department of Neurology, Centre Expert Parkinson, NS-Park/F-CRIN network, CHU Nantes, 44093 Nantes, France
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- Department of Neurology, NS-Park/F-CRIN network, Amiens University Hospital, 80000 Amiens, France
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- Lille Neurosciences and Cognition, CHU-Lille, Neurology and Movement Disorders department, NS-Park/F-CRIN network, Univ. Lille, 59037 Lille, France
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- Department of Neurology, NS-Park/F-CRIN network, Amiens University Hospital, 80000 Amiens, France
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- Department of Neurology, NS-Park/F-CRIN network, Amiens University Hospital, 80000 Amiens, France
- Service de Neurologie C, NS-Park/F-CRIN network, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Hôpital Neurologique Pierre Wertheimer, 69500 Bron, France
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- Department of Neurology, NS-PARK/F-CRIN network, University Hospital of Besançon, 25030 Besançon Cedex, France
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- Service de Neurologie, NS-Park/F-CRIN network, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg et Fédération de Médecine Translationnelle de Médecine de Strasbourg, 67200 Strasbourg, France
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- Assistance publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Inserm, CNRS, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Department of Neurology, NS-Park/F-CRIN network, Sorbonne Université, Paris Brain Institute-ICM, 75014 Paris, France
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- Lille Neurosciences and Cognition, CHU-Lille, Neurology and Movement Disorders department, NS-Park/F-CRIN network, Univ. Lille, 59037 Lille, France
- Lille Neurosciences and Cognition, CHU-Lille, Department of Medical Pharmacology, NS-Park/F-CRIN, Univ. Lille, Inserm, 59045 Lille, France
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- Service de Neurologie C, NS-Park/F-CRIN network, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Hôpital Neurologique Pierre Wertheimer, 69500 Bron, France
- Institut des Sciences Cognitives Marc Jeannerot, CNRS, UMR5229, 69675 Bron, France
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- Centre d'investigation clinique Inserm CIC 1431, CHU Besançon, F-25000 Besançon, France
- Université de Franche-Comté, EFS, INSERM, UMR RIGHT, 25000 Besançon, France
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- Service de Neurologie, NS-Park/F-CRIN network, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg et Fédération de Médecine Translationnelle de Médecine de Strasbourg, 67200 Strasbourg, France
- Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, INSERM-U964/CNRS-UMR7104/Université de Strasbourg, 67400 Illkirch, France
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Torres V, Del Giudice K, Roldán P, Rumià J, Muñoz E, Cámara A, Compta Y, Sánchez-Gómez A, Valldeoriola F. Image-guided programming deep brain stimulation improves clinical outcomes in patients with Parkinson's disease. NPJ Parkinsons Dis 2024; 10:29. [PMID: 38280901 PMCID: PMC10821897 DOI: 10.1038/s41531-024-00639-9] [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: 10/02/2023] [Accepted: 01/09/2024] [Indexed: 01/29/2024] Open
Abstract
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is an effective treatment for patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). However, some patients may not respond optimally to clinical programming adjustments. Advances in DBS technology have led to more complex and time-consuming programming. Image-guided programming (IGP) could optimize and improve programming leading to better clinical outcomes in patients for whom DBS programming is not ideal due to sub-optimal response. We conducted a prospective single-center study including 31 PD patients with subthalamic nucleus (STN) DBS and suboptimal responses refractory to clinical programming. Programming settings were adjusted according to the volumetric reconstruction of the stimulation field using commercial postoperative imaging software. Clinical outcomes were assessed at baseline and at 3-month follow-up after IGP, using motor and quality of life (QoL) scales. Additionally, between these two assessment points, follow-up visits for fine-tuning amplitude intensity and medication were conducted at weeks 2, 4, 6, and 9. After IGP, twenty-six patients (83.9%) experienced motor and QoL improvements, with 25.8% feeling much better and 38.7% feeling moderately better according to the patient global impression scale. Five patients (16.1%) had no clinical or QoL changes after IGP. The MDS-UPDRS III motor scale showed a 21.9% improvement and the DBS-IS global score improved by 41.5%. IGP optimizes STN-DBS therapy for PD patients who are experiencing suboptimal clinical outcomes. These findings support using IGP as a standard tool in clinical practice, which could save programming time and improve patients' QoL.
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- Viviana Torres
- Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Unit, Neurology Service, Institut de Neurociencies, Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Unit, Neurology Service, Institut de Neurociencies, Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Neurosurgery Service, Institut de Neurociencies, Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Neurosurgery Service, Institut de Neurociencies, Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Unit, Neurology Service, Institut de Neurociencies, Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Unit, Neurology Service, Institut de Neurociencies, Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Unit, Neurology Service, Institut de Neurociencies, Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Unit, Neurology Service, Institut de Neurociencies, Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
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- Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Unit, Neurology Service, Institut de Neurociencies, Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
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Oxenford S, Ríos AS, Hollunder B, Neudorfer C, Boutet A, Elias GJB, Germann J, Loh A, Deeb W, Salvato B, Almeida L, Foote KD, Amaral R, Rosenberg PB, Tang-Wai DF, Wolk DA, Burke AD, Sabbagh MN, Salloway S, Chakravarty MM, Smith GS, Lyketsos CG, Okun MS, Anderson WS, Mari Z, Ponce FA, Lozano A, Neumann WJ, Al-Fatly B, Horn A. WarpDrive: Improving spatial normalization using manual refinements. Med Image Anal 2024; 91:103041. [PMID: 38007978 PMCID: PMC10842752 DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2023.103041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2023] [Revised: 11/08/2023] [Accepted: 11/17/2023] [Indexed: 11/28/2023]
Abstract
Spatial normalization-the process of mapping subject brain images to an average template brain-has evolved over the last 20+ years into a reliable method that facilitates the comparison of brain imaging results across patients, centers & modalities. While overall successful, sometimes, this automatic process yields suboptimal results, especially when dealing with brains with extensive neurodegeneration and atrophy patterns, or when high accuracy in specific regions is needed. Here we introduce WarpDrive, a novel tool for manual refinements of image alignment after automated registration. We show that the tool applied in a cohort of patients with Alzheimer's disease who underwent deep brain stimulation surgery helps create more accurate representations of the data as well as meaningful models to explain patient outcomes. The tool is built to handle any type of 3D imaging data, also allowing refinements in high-resolution imaging, including histology and multiple modalities to precisely aggregate multiple data sources together.
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- Simón Oxenford
- Movement Disorders and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Charité -Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
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- Movement Disorders and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Charité -Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Movement Disorders and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Charité -Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Einstein Center for Neurosciences Berlin, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Movement Disorders and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Charité -Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Brain Modulation Lab, Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, United States; Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics Department of Neurology Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
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- Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, University Health Network and University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5T2S8, Canada; Krembil Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5T2S8, Canada; Joint Department of Medical Imaging, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5T1W7, Canada
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- Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, University Health Network and University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5T2S8, Canada; Krembil Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5T2S8, Canada
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- Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, University Health Network and University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5T2S8, Canada; Krembil Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5T2S8, Canada
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- Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, University Health Network and University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5T2S8, Canada; Krembil Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5T2S8, Canada
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- UMass Chan Medical School, Department of Neurology, Worcester, MA 01655, United States; UMass Memorial Health, Department of Neurology, Worcester, MA 01655, United States
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- University of Florida Health Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL, United States
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- Department of Neurology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus, Minneapolis, MN, United States
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- Norman Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases, Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
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- Cerebral Imaging Centre, Douglas Research Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Richman Family Precision Medicine Center of Excellence, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States
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- Krembil Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5T2S8, Canada; Department of Medicine, Division of Neurology, University Health Network and University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5T2S8, Canada
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- Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and Neurology, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, United States; Memory & Aging Program, Butler Hospital, Providence, United States
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- Cerebral Imaging Centre, Douglas Research Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada; Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; Biological and Biomedical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Cerebral Imaging Centre, Douglas Research Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Norman Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases, Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
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- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States; Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, Las Vegas, NV, United States
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- Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, University Health Network and University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5T2S8, Canada; Krembil Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5T2S8, Canada
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- Movement Disorders and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Charité -Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Movement Disorders and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Charité -Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Movement Disorders and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Charité -Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Brain Modulation Lab, Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, United States; Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics Department of Neurology Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
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Liu B, Xu J, Feng Z, Hui R, Zhang Y, Liu D, Chang Q, Yu X, Mao Z. One-pass deep brain stimulation of subthalamic nucleus and ventral intermediate nucleus for levodopa-resistant tremor-dominant Parkinson's disease. Front Aging Neurosci 2023; 15:1289183. [PMID: 38187361 PMCID: PMC10768017 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2023.1289183] [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: 09/05/2023] [Accepted: 11/29/2023] [Indexed: 01/09/2024] Open
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Objective Tremor-dominant Parkinson's disease (TD-PD) can be further separated into levodopa-responsive and levodopa-resistant types, the latter being considered to have a different pathogenesis. Previous studies indicated that deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the subthalamic nucleus (STN) or the globus pallidus internus (GPi) individually was not sufficient for tremor control, especially for the levodopa-resistant TD-PD (LRTD-PD). The thalamic ventral intermediate nucleus (VIM) has been regarded as a potent DBS target for different kinds of tremors. Therefore, we focused on the LRTD-PD subgroup and performed one-pass combined DBSs of STN and VIM to treat refractory tremors, aiming to investigate the safety and effectiveness of this one-trajectory dual-target DBS scheme. Methods We retrospectively collected five LRTD-PD patients who underwent a one-pass combined DBS of STN and VIM via a trans-frontal approach. The targeting of VIM was achieved by probabilistic tractography. Changes in severity of symptoms (measured by the Unified Parkinson Disease Rating Scale part III, UPDRS-III), levodopa equivalent daily doses (LEDD), and disease-specific quality of life (measured by the 39-item Parkinson's Disease Questionnaire, PDQ-39) were evaluated. Results Three-dimensional reconstruction of electrodes illustrated that all leads were successfully implanted into predefined positions. The mean improvement rates (%) were 53 ± 6.2 (UPDRS-III), 82.6 ± 11.4 (tremor-related items of UPDRS), and 52.1 ± 11.4 (PDQ-39), respectively, with a mean follow-up of 11.4 months. Conclusion One-pass combined DBS of STN and VIM via the trans-frontal approach is an effective and safe strategy to alleviate symptoms for LRTD-PD patients.
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- Bin Liu
- Medical School of Chinese PLA, Beijing, China
- Department of Neurosurgery, The First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Medical School of Chinese PLA, Beijing, China
- Department of Neurosurgery, The First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, The First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, The First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, The First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, The First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, The First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, The First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, The First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China
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Wang Q, Stepniewska I, Kaas JH. Thalamic connections of the caudal part of the posterior parietal cortex differ from the rostral part in galagos (Otolemur garnettii). J Comp Neurol 2023; 531:1752-1771. [PMID: 37702312 PMCID: PMC10959078 DOI: 10.1002/cne.25537] [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: 05/28/2023] [Revised: 08/19/2023] [Accepted: 08/23/2023] [Indexed: 09/14/2023]
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In this study, thalamic connections of the caudal part of the posterior parietal cortex (PPCc) are described and compared to connections of the rostral part of PPC (PPCr) in strepsirrhine galagos. PPC of galagos is divided into two parts, PPCr and PPCc, based on the responsiveness to electrical stimulation. Stimulation of PPC with long trains of electrical pulses evokes different types of ethologically relevant movements from different subregions ("domains") of PPCr, while it fails to evoke any movements from PPCc. Anatomical tracers were placed in both dorsal and ventral divisions of PPCc to reveal thalamic origins and targets of PPCc connections. We found major thalamic connections of PPCc with the lateral posterior and lateral pulvinar nuclei, distinct from those of PPCr that were mainly with the ventral lateral, anterior pulvinar, and posterior nuclei. The anterior, medial, and inferior pulvinar, ventral anterior, ventral lateral, and intralaminar nuclei had fewer connections with PPCc. Dominant connections of PPCc with lateral posterior and lateral pulvinar nuclei provide evidence that unlike the sensorimotor-orientated PPCr, PPCc is more involved in visual-related functions.
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- Qimeng Wang
- Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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Avantaggiato F, Farokhniaee A, Bandini A, Palmisano C, Hanafi I, Pezzoli G, Mazzoni A, Isaias IU. Intelligibility of speech in Parkinson's disease relies on anatomically segregated subthalamic beta oscillations. Neurobiol Dis 2023; 185:106239. [PMID: 37499882 DOI: 10.1016/j.nbd.2023.106239] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2023] [Revised: 07/16/2023] [Accepted: 07/24/2023] [Indexed: 07/29/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Speech impairment is commonly reported in Parkinson's disease and is not consistently improved by available therapies - including deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus (STN-DBS), which can worsen communication performance in some patients. Improving the outcome of STN-DBS on speech is difficult due to our incomplete understanding of the contribution of the STN to fluent speaking. OBJECTIVE To assess the relationship between subthalamic neural activity and speech production and intelligibility. METHODS We investigated bilateral STN local field potentials (LFPs) in nine parkinsonian patients chronically implanted with DBS during overt reading. LFP spectral features were correlated with clinical scores and measures of speech intelligibility. RESULTS Overt reading was associated with increased beta-low ([1220) Hz) power in the left STN, whereas speech intelligibility correlated positively with beta-high ([2030) Hz) power in the right STN. CONCLUSION We identified separate contributions from frequency and brain lateralization of the STN in the execution of an overt reading motor task and its intelligibility. This subcortical organization could be exploited for new adaptive stimulation strategies capable of identifying the occurrence of speaking behavior and facilitating its functional execution.
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- Federica Avantaggiato
- Department of Neurology, University Hospital of Würzburg and Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, Josef-Schneider-Straße 11, 97080 Würzburg, Germany.
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- Fondazione Grigioni per il Morbo di Parkinson, Via Gianfranco Zuretti 35, 20125 Milano, Italy.
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- The BioRobotics Institute, Department of Excellence in Robotics and AI, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Viale Rinaldo Piaggo 34, Pontedera, Pisa, Italy; KITE Research Institute, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; Health Science Interdisciplinary Center, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Viale Rinaldo Piaggo 34, Pontedera, Pisa, Italy.
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- Department of Neurology, University Hospital of Würzburg and Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, Josef-Schneider-Straße 11, 97080 Würzburg, Germany; Parkinson Institute Milan, ASST G. Pini-CTO, via Bignami 1, 20126 Milano, Italy.
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- Department of Neurology, University Hospital of Würzburg and Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, Josef-Schneider-Straße 11, 97080 Würzburg, Germany.
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- Fondazione Grigioni per il Morbo di Parkinson, Via Gianfranco Zuretti 35, 20125 Milano, Italy; Parkinson Institute Milan, ASST G. Pini-CTO, via Bignami 1, 20126 Milano, Italy.
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- Health Science Interdisciplinary Center, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Viale Rinaldo Piaggo 34, Pontedera, Pisa, Italy.
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- Department of Neurology, University Hospital of Würzburg and Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, Josef-Schneider-Straße 11, 97080 Würzburg, Germany; Parkinson Institute Milan, ASST G. Pini-CTO, via Bignami 1, 20126 Milano, Italy.
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Hollunder B, Ostrem JL, Sahin IA, Rajamani N, Oxenford S, Butenko K, Neudorfer C, Reinhardt P, Zvarova P, Polosan M, Akram H, Vissani M, Zhang C, Sun B, Navratil P, Reich MM, Volkmann J, Yeh FC, Baldermann JC, Dembek TA, Visser-Vandewalle V, Alho EJL, Franceschini PR, Nanda P, Finke C, Kühn AA, Dougherty DD, Richardson RM, Bergman H, DeLong MR, Mazzoni A, Romito LM, Tyagi H, Zrinzo L, Joyce EM, Chabardes S, Starr PA, Li N, Horn A. Mapping Dysfunctional Circuits in the Frontal Cortex Using Deep Brain Stimulation. MEDRXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR HEALTH SCIENCES 2023:2023.03.07.23286766. [PMID: 36945497 PMCID: PMC10029043 DOI: 10.1101/2023.03.07.23286766] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/23/2023]
Abstract
Frontal circuits play a critical role in motor, cognitive, and affective processing - and their dysfunction may result in a variety of brain disorders. However, exactly which frontal domains mediate which (dys)function remains largely elusive. Here, we study 534 deep brain stimulation electrodes implanted to treat four different brain disorders. By analyzing which connections were modulated for optimal therapeutic response across these disorders, we segregate the frontal cortex into circuits that became dysfunctional in each of them. Dysfunctional circuits were topographically arranged from occipital to rostral, ranging from interconnections with sensorimotor cortices in dystonia, with the primary motor cortex in Tourette's syndrome, the supplementary motor area in Parkinson's disease, to ventromedial prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortices in obsessive-compulsive disorder. Our findings highlight the integration of deep brain stimulation with brain connectomics as a powerful tool to explore couplings between brain structure and functional impairment in the human brain.
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- Barbara Hollunder
- Department of Neurology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Einstein Center for Neurosciences Berlin, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Movement Disorders and Neuromodulation Centre, Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Einstein Center for Neurosciences Berlin, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics, Department of Neurology, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics, Department of Neurology, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Einstein Center for Neurosciences Berlin, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
- Inserm, U1216, Grenoble Institut des Neurosciences, Grenoble, France
- Psychiatry Department, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
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- Department of Clinical and Movement Neurosciences, University College London Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, UK
- National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, University College London Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, UK
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy
- Department of Excellence in Robotics and AI, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Rujin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Rujin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Neurology, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
- Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Department of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Einstein Center for Neurosciences Berlin, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Einstein Center for Neurosciences Berlin, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- NeuroCure Cluster of Excellence, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
- Department of Medical Neurobiology, Institute of Medical Research Israel-Canada, The Hebrew University, Hassadah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel
- Department of Neurosurgery, Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Department of Neurology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy
- Department of Excellence in Robotics and AI, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy
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- Parkinson and Movement Disorders Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Clinical and Movement Neurosciences, University College London Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, UK
- National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, University College London Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, UK
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- Department of Clinical and Movement Neurosciences, University College London Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, UK
- National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, University College London Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, UK
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- Department of Clinical and Movement Neurosciences, University College London Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, UK
- National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, University College London Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, UK
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
- Inserm, U1216, Grenoble Institut des Neurosciences, Grenoble, France
- Department of Neurosurgery, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Einstein Center for Neurosciences Berlin, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics, Department of Neurology, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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Hacker ML, Rajamani N, Neudorfer C, Hollunder B, Oxenford S, Li N, Sternberg AL, Davis TL, Konrad PE, Horn A, Charles D. Connectivity Profile for Subthalamic Nucleus Deep Brain Stimulation in Early Stage Parkinson Disease. Ann Neurol 2023; 94:271-284. [PMID: 37177857 PMCID: PMC10846105 DOI: 10.1002/ana.26674] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2023] [Revised: 04/18/2023] [Accepted: 05/09/2023] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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OBJECTIVE This study was undertaken to describe relationships between electrode localization and motor outcomes from the subthalamic nucleus (STN) deep brain stimulation (DBS) in early stage Parkinson disease (PD) pilot clinical trial. METHODS To determine anatomical and network correlates associated with motor outcomes for subjects randomized to early DBS (n = 14), voxelwise sweet spot mapping and structural connectivity analyses were carried out using outcomes of motor progression (Unified Parkinson Disease Rating Scale Part III [UPDRS-III] 7-day OFF scores [∆baseline➔24 months, MedOFF/StimOFF]) and symptomatic motor improvement (UPDRS-III ON scores [%∆baseline➔24 months, MedON/StimON]). RESULTS Sweet spot mapping revealed a location associated with slower motor progression in the dorsolateral STN (anterior/posterior commissure coordinates: 11.07 ± 0.82mm lateral, 1.83 ± 0.61mm posterior, 3.53 ± 0.38mm inferior to the midcommissural point; Montreal Neurological Institute coordinates: +11.25, -13.56, -7.44mm). Modulating fiber tracts from supplementary motor area (SMA) and primary motor cortex (M1) to the STN correlated with slower motor progression across STN DBS subjects, whereas fiber tracts originating from pre-SMA and cerebellum were negatively associated with motor progression. Robustness of the fiber tract model was demonstrated in leave-one-patient-out (R = 0.56, p = 0.02), 5-fold (R = 0.50, p = 0.03), and 10-fold (R = 0.53, p = 0.03) cross-validation paradigms. The sweet spot and fiber tracts associated with motor progression revealed strong similarities to symptomatic motor improvement sweet spot and connectivity in this early stage PD cohort. INTERPRETATION These results suggest that stimulating the dorsolateral region of the STN receiving input from M1 and SMA (but not pre-SMA) is associated with slower motor progression across subjects receiving STN DBS in early stage PD. This finding is hypothesis-generating and must be prospectively tested in a larger study. ANN NEUROL 2023;94:271-284.
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- Mallory L Hacker
- Department of Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Movement Disorder and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Department of Neurology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Free University of Berlin and Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Movement Disorder and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Department of Neurology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Free University of Berlin and Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Einstein Center for Neurosciences Berlin, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Movement Disorder and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Department of Neurology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Free University of Berlin and Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Movement Disorder and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Department of Neurology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Free University of Berlin and Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA
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- Movement Disorder and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Department of Neurology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Free University of Berlin and Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Neurosurgery and Center for Neurotechnology and Neurorecovery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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Al-Fatly B, Giesler SJ, Oxenford S, Li N, Dembek TA, Achtzehn J, Krause P, Visser-Vandewalle V, Krauss JK, Runge J, Tadic V, Bäumer T, Schnitzler A, Vesper J, Wirths J, Timmermann L, Kühn AA, Koy A. Neuroimaging-based analysis of DBS outcomes in pediatric dystonia: Insights from the GEPESTIM registry. Neuroimage Clin 2023; 39:103449. [PMID: 37321142 PMCID: PMC10275720 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2023.103449] [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: 02/16/2023] [Revised: 05/16/2023] [Accepted: 06/02/2023] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
Abstract
INTRODUCTION Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is an established treatment in patients of various ages with pharmaco-resistant neurological disorders. Surgical targeting and postoperative programming of DBS depend on the spatial location of the stimulating electrodes in relation to the surrounding anatomical structures, and on electrode connectivity to a specific distribution pattern within brain networks. Such information is usually collected using group-level analysis, which relies on the availability of normative imaging resources (atlases and connectomes). Analysis of DBS data in children with debilitating neurological disorders such as dystonia would benefit from such resources, especially given the developmental differences in neuroimaging data between adults and children. We assembled pediatric normative neuroimaging resources from open-access datasets in order to comply with age-related anatomical and functional differences in pediatric DBS populations. We illustrated their utility in a cohort of children with dystonia treated with pallidal DBS. We aimed to derive a local pallidal sweetspot and explore a connectivity fingerprint associated with pallidal stimulation to exemplify the utility of the assembled imaging resources. METHODS An average pediatric brain template (the MNI brain template 4.5-18.5 years) was implemented and used to localize the DBS electrodes in 20 patients from the GEPESTIM registry cohort. A pediatric subcortical atlas, analogous to the DISTAL atlas known in DBS research, was also employed to highlight the anatomical structures of interest. A local pallidal sweetspot was modeled, and its degree of overlap with stimulation volumes was calculated as a correlate of individual clinical outcomes. Additionally, a pediatric functional connectome of 100 neurotypical subjects from the Consortium for Reliability and Reproducibility was built to allow network-based analyses and decipher a connectivity fingerprint responsible for the clinical improvements in our cohort. RESULTS We successfully implemented a pediatric neuroimaging dataset that will be made available for public use as a tool for DBS analyses. Overlap of stimulation volumes with the identified DBS-sweetspot model correlated significantly with improvement on a local spatial level (R = 0.46, permuted p = 0.019). The functional connectivity fingerprint of DBS outcomes was determined to be a network correlate of therapeutic pallidal stimulation in children with dystonia (R = 0.30, permuted p = 0.003). CONCLUSIONS Local sweetspot and distributed network models provide neuroanatomical substrates for DBS-associated clinical outcomes in dystonia using pediatric neuroimaging surrogate data. Implementation of this pediatric neuroimaging dataset might help to improve the practice and pave the road towards a personalized DBS-neuroimaging analyses in pediatric patients.
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- Bassam Al-Fatly
- Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Neurology, Berlin, Germany.
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- Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Neurology, Berlin, Germany
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- Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Neurology, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Neurology, Berlin, Germany
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- Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Neurology, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Schleswig Holstein, Lübeck Campus, Lübeck, Germany
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- Institute of System Motor Science, University Medical Center Schleswig Holstein, Lübeck Campus, Lübeck, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Institute of Clinical Neuroscience and Medical Psychology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany; Department of Neurology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Institute of Clinical Neuroscience and Medical Psychology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Department of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University Hospital of Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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- Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Neurology, Berlin, Germany.
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- Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany; Center for Rare Diseases, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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Andrews L, Keller SS, Osman-Farah J, Macerollo A. A structural magnetic resonance imaging review of clinical motor outcomes from deep brain stimulation in movement disorders. Brain Commun 2023; 5:fcad171. [PMID: 37304793 PMCID: PMC10257440 DOI: 10.1093/braincomms/fcad171] [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: 11/13/2022] [Revised: 04/05/2023] [Accepted: 05/30/2023] [Indexed: 06/13/2023] Open
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Patients with movement disorders treated by deep brain stimulation do not always achieve successful therapeutic alleviation of motor symptoms, even in cases where surgery is without complications. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) offers methods to investigate structural brain-related factors that may be predictive of clinical motor outcomes. This review aimed to identify features which have been associated with variability in clinical post-operative motor outcomes in patients with Parkinson's disease, dystonia, and essential tremor from structural MRI modalities. We performed a literature search for articles published between 1 January 2000 and 1 April 2022 and identified 5197 articles. Following screening through our inclusion criteria, we identified 60 total studies (39 = Parkinson's disease, 11 = dystonia syndromes and 10 = essential tremor). The review captured a range of structural MRI methods and analysis techniques used to identify factors related to clinical post-operative motor outcomes from deep brain stimulation. Morphometric markers, including volume and cortical thickness were commonly identified in studies focused on patients with Parkinson's disease and dystonia syndromes. Reduced metrics in basal ganglia, sensorimotor and frontal regions showed frequent associations with reduced motor outcomes. Increased structural connectivity to subcortical nuclei, sensorimotor and frontal regions was also associated with greater motor outcomes. In patients with tremor, increased structural connectivity to the cerebellum and cortical motor regions showed high prevalence across studies for greater clinical motor outcomes. In addition, we highlight conceptual issues for studies assessing clinical response with structural MRI and discuss future approaches towards optimizing individualized therapeutic benefits. Although quantitative MRI markers are in their infancy for clinical purposes in movement disorder treatments, structural features obtained from MRI offer the powerful potential to identify candidates who are more likely to benefit from deep brain stimulation and provide insight into the complexity of disorder pathophysiology.
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- Luke Andrews
- The Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Institute of Systems, Molecular and Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L3 9TA, UK
- Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool L97LJ, UK
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- The Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Institute of Systems, Molecular and Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L3 9TA, UK
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- Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool L97LJ, UK
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- The Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Institute of Systems, Molecular and Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L3 9TA, UK
- Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool L97LJ, UK
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Neumann WJ, Horn A, Kühn AA. Insights and opportunities for deep brain stimulation as a brain circuit intervention. Trends Neurosci 2023; 46:472-487. [PMID: 37105806 DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2023.03.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2022] [Revised: 03/13/2023] [Accepted: 03/17/2023] [Indexed: 04/29/2023]
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Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is an effective treatment and has provided unique insights into the dynamic circuit architecture of brain disorders. This Review illustrates our current understanding of the pathophysiology of movement disorders and their underlying brain circuits that are modulated with DBS. It proposes principles of pathological network synchronization patterns like beta activity (13-35 Hz) in Parkinson's disease. We describe alterations from microscale including local synaptic activity via modulation of mesoscale hypersynchronization to changes in whole-brain macroscale connectivity. Finally, an outlook on advances for clinical innovations in next-generation neurotechnology is provided: from preoperative connectomic targeting to feedback controlled closed-loop adaptive DBS as individualized network-specific brain circuit interventions.
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- Wolf-Julian Neumann
- Movement Disorders and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Einstein Center for Neurosciences Berlin, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Movement Disorders and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Einstein Center for Neurosciences Berlin, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics, Department of Neurology, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; MGH Neurosurgery & Center for Neurotechnology and Neurorecovery at MGH Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Movement Disorders and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Einstein Center for Neurosciences Berlin, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany; NeuroCure Clinical Research Centre, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany; DZNE, German Center for Degenerative Diseases, Berlin, Germany.
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Breit S, Milosevic L, Naros G, Cebi I, Weiss D, Gharabaghi A. Structural-Functional Correlates of Response to Pedunculopontine Stimulation in a Randomized Clinical Trial for Axial Symptoms of Parkinson's Disease. JOURNAL OF PARKINSON'S DISEASE 2023:JPD225031. [PMID: 37092235 DOI: 10.3233/jpd-225031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/25/2023]
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BACKGROUND Axial symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD) can be debilitating and are often refractory to conventional therapies such as dopamine replacement therapy and deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the subthalamic nuclei (STN). OBJECTIVE Evaluate the efficacy of bilateral DBS of the pedunculopontine nucleus area (PPNa) and investigate structural and physiological correlates of clinical response. METHODS A randomized, double-blind, cross-over clinical trial was employed to evaluate the efficacy of bilateral PPNa-DBS on axial symptoms. Lead positions and neuronal activity were evaluated with respect to clinical response. Connectomic cortical activation profiles were generated based on the volumes of tissue activated. RESULTS PPNa-DBS modestly improved (p = 0.057) axial symptoms in the medication-off condition, with greatest positive effects on gait symptoms (p = 0.027). Electrode placements towards the anterior commissure (ρ= 0.912; p = 0.011) or foramen caecum (ρ= 0.853; p = 0.031), near the 50% mark of the ponto-mesencephalic junction, yielded better therapeutic responses. Recording trajectories of patients with better therapeutic responses (i.e., more anterior electrode placements) had neurons with lower firing-rates (p = 0.003) and higher burst indexes (p = 0.007). Structural connectomic profiles implicated activation of fibers of the posterior parietal lobule which is involved in orienting behavior and locomotion. CONCLUSION Bilateral PPNa-DBS influenced gait symptoms in patients with PD. Anatomical and physiological information may aid in localization of a favorable stimulation target.
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- Sorin Breit
- Department for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, and German Centre of Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), University Hospital and University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Institute for Neuromodulation and Neurotechnology, University Hospital and University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- Krembil Research Institute, Clinical and Computational Neuroscience, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
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- Institute for Neuromodulation and Neurotechnology, University Hospital and University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, and German Centre of Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), University Hospital and University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- Institute for Neuromodulation and Neurotechnology, University Hospital and University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, and German Centre of Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), University Hospital and University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Institute for Neuromodulation and Neurotechnology, University Hospital and University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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Freund BE, Greco E, Okromelidze L, Mendez J, Tatum WO, Grewal SS, Middlebrooks EH. Clinical outcome of imaging-based programming for anterior thalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation. J Neurosurg 2023; 138:1008-1015. [PMID: 36087330 DOI: 10.3171/2022.7.jns221116] [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: 05/10/2022] [Accepted: 07/19/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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OBJECTIVE The authors hypothesized that the proximity of deep brain stimulator contacts to the anterior thalamic nucleus-mammillothalamic tract (ANT-MMT) junction determines responsiveness to treatment with ANT deep brain stimulation (DBS) in drug-resistant epilepsy and conducted this study to test that hypothesis. METHODS This retrospective study evaluated patients who had undergone ANT DBS electrode implantation and whose devices were programmed to stimulate nearest the ANT-MMT junction based on direct MRI visualization. The proximity of the active electrode to the ANT and the ANT-MMT junction was compared between responders (≥ 50% reduction in seizure frequency) and nonresponders. Linear regression was performed to assess the percentage of seizure reduction and distance to both the ANT and the ANT-MMT junction. RESULTS Four (57.1%) of 7 patients had ≥ 50% reduction in seizures. All 4 responders had at least one contact within 1 mm of the ANT-MMT junction, whereas the 3 patients with < 50% seizure improvement did not have a contact within 1 mm of the ANT-MMT junction. Additionally, the 4 responders demonstrated contact positioning closer to the ANT-MMT junction than the 3 nonresponders (mean distance from MMT: 0.7 mm on the left and 0.6 mm on the right in responders vs 3.0 mm on the left and 2.3 mm on the right in nonresponders). However, proximity of the electrode contact to any point in the ANT nucleus did not correlate with seizure reduction. Greater seizure improvement was correlated with a contact position closer to the ANT-MMT junction (R2 = 0.62, p = 0.04). Seizure improvement was not significantly correlated with proximity of the contact to any ANT border (R2 = 0.24, p = 0.26). CONCLUSIONS Obtained using a combination of direct visualization and targeted programming of the ANT-MMT junction, data in this study support the hypothesis that proximity to the ANT alone does not correlate with seizure reduction in ANT DBS, whereas proximity to the ANT-MMT junction does. These findings support the importance of direct targeting in ANT DBS, as well as imaging-informed programming. Additionally, the authors provide supportive evidence for future prospective trials using ANT-MMT junction for direct surgical targeting.
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Hegde A, Canty M, Littlechild P. A Comparison of Robotic Versus Conventional Frame Based Stereotactic Lead Placement in Parkinson’s Disease. Neuromodulation 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neurom.2023.02.061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/09/2023]
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Fridgeirsson EA, Bais MN, Eijsker N, Thomas RM, Smit DJA, Bergfeld IO, Schuurman PR, van den Munckhof P, de Koning P, Vulink N, Figee M, Mazaheri A, van Wingen GA, Denys D. Patient specific intracranial neural signatures of obsessions and compulsions in the ventral striatum. J Neural Eng 2023; 20. [PMID: 36827705 DOI: 10.1088/1741-2552/acbee1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2022] [Accepted: 02/24/2023] [Indexed: 02/26/2023]
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Objective. Deep brain stimulation is a treatment option for patients with refractory obsessive-compulsive disorder. A new generation of stimulators hold promise for closed loop stimulation, with adaptive stimulation in response to biologic signals. Here we aimed to discover a suitable biomarker in the ventral striatum in patients with obsessive compulsive disorder using local field potentials.Approach.We induced obsessions and compulsions in 11 patients undergoing deep brain stimulation treatment using a symptom provocation task. Then we trained machine learning models to predict symptoms using the recorded intracranial signal from the deep brain stimulation electrodes.Main results.Average areas under the receiver operating characteristics curve were 62.1% for obsessions and 78.2% for compulsions for patient specific models. For obsessions it reached over 85% in one patient, whereas performance was near chance level when the model was trained across patients. Optimal performances for obsessions and compulsions was obtained at different recording sites.Significance. The results from this study suggest that closed loop stimulation may be a viable option for obsessive-compulsive disorder, but that intracranial biomarkers are patient and not disorder specific.Clinical Trial:Netherlands trial registry NL7486.
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- Egill A Fridgeirsson
- Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam UMC location University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.,Amsterdam Neuroscience, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.,Amsterdam Brain and Cognition, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam UMC location University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.,Amsterdam Neuroscience, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.,Amsterdam Brain and Cognition, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam UMC location University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.,Amsterdam Neuroscience, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.,Amsterdam Brain and Cognition, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam UMC location University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.,Amsterdam Neuroscience, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.,Amsterdam Brain and Cognition, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam UMC location University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.,Amsterdam Neuroscience, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.,Amsterdam Brain and Cognition, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam UMC location University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.,Amsterdam Neuroscience, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.,Amsterdam Brain and Cognition, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam UMC location University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam UMC location University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Nash Family Center for Advanced Circuit Therapeutics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States of America
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- School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.,Centre for Human Brain Health, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam UMC location University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.,Amsterdam Neuroscience, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.,Amsterdam Brain and Cognition, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam UMC location University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.,Amsterdam Neuroscience, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.,The Netherlands institute for Neuroscience, an Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Lead-DBS v3.0: Mapping deep brain stimulation effects to local anatomy and global networks. Neuroimage 2023; 268:119862. [PMID: 36610682 PMCID: PMC10144063 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.119862] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 34.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2022] [Revised: 12/22/2022] [Accepted: 01/03/2023] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Following its introduction in 2014 and with support of a broad international community, the open-source toolbox Lead-DBS has evolved into a comprehensive neuroimaging platform dedicated to localizing, reconstructing, and visualizing electrodes implanted in the human brain, in the context of deep brain stimulation (DBS) and epilepsy monitoring. Expanding clinical indications for DBS, increasing availability of related research tools, and a growing community of clinician-scientist researchers, however, have led to an ongoing need to maintain, update, and standardize the codebase of Lead-DBS. Major development efforts of the platform in recent years have now yielded an end-to-end solution for DBS-based neuroimaging analysis allowing comprehensive image preprocessing, lead localization, stimulation volume modeling, and statistical analysis within a single tool. The aim of the present manuscript is to introduce fundamental additions to the Lead-DBS pipeline including a deformation warpfield editor and novel algorithms for electrode localization. Furthermore, we introduce a total of three comprehensive tools to map DBS effects to local, tract- and brain network-levels. These updates are demonstrated using a single patient example (for subject-level analysis), as well as a retrospective cohort of 51 Parkinson's disease patients who underwent DBS of the subthalamic nucleus (for group-level analysis). Their applicability is further demonstrated by comparing the various methodological choices and the amount of explained variance in clinical outcomes across analysis streams. Finally, based on an increasing need to standardize folder and file naming specifications across research groups in neuroscience, we introduce the brain imaging data structure (BIDS) derivative standard for Lead-DBS. Thus, this multi-institutional collaborative effort represents an important stage in the evolution of a comprehensive, open-source pipeline for DBS imaging and connectomics.
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Waldthaler J, Sperlich A, Stüssel C, Steidel K, Timmermann L, Pedrosa DJ. Stimulation of non-motor subthalamic nucleus impairs selective response inhibition via prefrontal connectivity. Brain Commun 2023; 5:fcad121. [PMID: 37113315 PMCID: PMC10128876 DOI: 10.1093/braincomms/fcad121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2022] [Revised: 03/03/2023] [Indexed: 04/29/2023] Open
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Given the inconsistent results in the past, there is an ongoing debate whether and how deep brain stimulation in the subthalamic nucleus modifies cognitive control processes like response inhibition in persons with Parkinson's disease. In this study, we examined how the location of the stimulation volume within the subthalamic nucleus affects the performance in an antisaccade task but also how its structural connectivity is related to response inhibition. Antisaccade error rates and latencies were collected in 14 participants on and off deep brain stimulation in a randomized order. Stimulation volumes were computed based on patient-specific lead localizations using preoperative MRI and postoperative CT scans. Structural connectivity of the stimulation volumes with pre-defined cortical oculomotor control regions as well as whole-brain connectivity was estimated using a normative connectome. We showed that the detrimental effect of deep brain stimulation on response inhibition, measured as antisaccade error rate, depended upon the magnitude of the intersection of volumes of activated tissue with the non-motor subregion of the subthalamic nucleus and on its structural connectivity with regions of the prefrontal oculomotor network including bilateral frontal eye fields and right anterior cingulate cortex. Our results corroborate previous recommendations for avoidance of stimulation in the ventromedial non-motor subregion of the subthalamic nucleus which connects to the prefrontal cortex to prevent stimulation-induced impulsivity. Furthermore, antisaccades were initiated faster with deep brain stimulation when the stimulation volume was connected to fibres passing the subthalamic nucleus laterally and projecting onto the prefrontal cortex, indicating that improvement of voluntary saccade generation with deep brain stimulation may be an off-target effect driven by stimulation of corticotectal fibres directly projecting from the frontal and supplementary eye fields onto brainstem gaze control areas. Taken together, these findings could help implement individualized circuit-based deep brain stimulation strategies that avoid impulsive side effects while improving voluntary oculomotor control.
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- Josefine Waldthaler
- Correspondence to: Josefine Waldthaler, Department of Neurology, University Hospitals Gießen and Marburg, Baldingerstraße, 35033 Marburg, Hesse, Germany E-mail:
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- Department of Neurology, University Hospital Gießen and Marburg, 35033 Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University Hospital Gießen and Marburg, 35033 Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University Hospital Gießen and Marburg, 35033 Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University Hospital Gießen and Marburg, 35033 Marburg, Germany
- Center for Mind, Brain and Behavior (CMBB), Philipps-University Marburg and Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, 35033 Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University Hospital Gießen and Marburg, 35033 Marburg, Germany
- Center for Mind, Brain and Behavior (CMBB), Philipps-University Marburg and Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, 35033 Marburg, Germany
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Ríos AS, Oxenford S, Neudorfer C, Butenko K, Li N, Rajamani N, Boutet A, Elias GJB, Germann J, Loh A, Deeb W, Wang F, Setsompop K, Salvato B, Almeida LBD, Foote KD, Amaral R, Rosenberg PB, Tang-Wai DF, Wolk DA, Burke AD, Salloway S, Sabbagh MN, Chakravarty MM, Smith GS, Lyketsos CG, Okun MS, Anderson WS, Mari Z, Ponce FA, Lozano AM, Horn A. Optimal deep brain stimulation sites and networks for stimulation of the fornix in Alzheimer's disease. Nat Commun 2022; 13:7707. [PMID: 36517479 PMCID: PMC9751139 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-34510-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2021] [Accepted: 10/27/2022] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
Abstract
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) to the fornix is an investigational treatment for patients with mild Alzheimer's Disease. Outcomes from randomized clinical trials have shown that cognitive function improved in some patients but deteriorated in others. This could be explained by variance in electrode placement leading to differential engagement of neural circuits. To investigate this, we performed a post-hoc analysis on a multi-center cohort of 46 patients with DBS to the fornix (NCT00658125, NCT01608061). Using normative structural and functional connectivity data, we found that stimulation of the circuit of Papez and stria terminalis robustly associated with cognitive improvement (R = 0.53, p < 0.001). On a local level, the optimal stimulation site resided at the direct interface between these structures (R = 0.48, p < 0.001). Finally, modulating specific distributed brain networks related to memory accounted for optimal outcomes (R = 0.48, p < 0.001). Findings were robust to multiple cross-validation designs and may define an optimal network target that could refine DBS surgery and programming.
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Grants
- P30 AG066507 NIA NIH HHS
- R01 NS127892 NINDS NIH HHS
- R01 MH113929 NIMH NIH HHS
- R01 MH130666 NIMH NIH HHS
- P30 AG072979 NIA NIH HHS
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation)
- Received grants and personal fees from Medtronic and Boston Scientific, grants from Abbott/St. Jude, and Functional Neuromodulation outside the submitted work.
- Received grants from Functional Neuromodulation during conduct of this study, grants and personal fees from Avid/Lily, and Merck, personal fees from Jannsen, GE Healthcare, Biogen and Neuronix outside the submitted work.
- Receives personal fees from Elsai, Lilly, Roche Novartis and Biogen outside the submitted work.
- Received personal fees from Allergan, Biogen, Roche-Genentech, Cortexyme, Bracket, Sanofi, and other type of support from Brain Health Inc and uMethod Health outside of the submitted work.
- Received grants from Functional Neuromodulation Inc. during conduct of this study, from Avanir and Eli Lily and NFL Benefits Office outside of the submitted work.
- Received grants from NIH, Tourette Association of America Grant, Parkinson’s Alliance, Smallwood Foundation, and personal fees from Parkinson’s Foundation Medical Director, Books4Patients, American Academy of Neurology, Peerview, WebMD/Medscape, Mededicus, Movement Disorders Society, Taylor and Francis, Demos, Robert Rose and non-financial support from Medtronic outside of the submitted work.
- Received grants from Medtronic and Functional Neuromodulation during conduct of this study, personal fees from Medtronic, St. Jude, Boston Scientific, and Functional Neuromodulation outside of submitted work
- Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (German Centre for Air and Space Travel)
- National Institutes of Health (R01 13478451, 1R01NS127892-01 & 2R01 MH113929) New Venture Fund (FFOR Seed Grant).
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- Ana Sofía Ríos
- Movement Disorder and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Movement Disorder and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Movement Disorder and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Movement Disorder and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Movement Disorder and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Movement Disorder and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, University Health Network and University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5T2S8, Canada
- Krembil Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5T2S8, Canada
- Joint Department of Medical Imaging, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5T1W7, Canada
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- Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, University Health Network and University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5T2S8, Canada
- Krembil Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5T2S8, Canada
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- Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, University Health Network and University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5T2S8, Canada
- Krembil Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5T2S8, Canada
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- Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, University Health Network and University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5T2S8, Canada
- Krembil Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5T2S8, Canada
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- UMass Chan Medical School, Department of Neurology, Worcester, MA, 01655, USA
- UMass Memorial Health, Department of Neurology, Worcester, MA, 01655, USA
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- Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, USA
- Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, USA
- Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- University of Florida Health Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL, USA
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- Norman Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases, Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Norman Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases, Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Cerebral Imaging Centre, Douglas Research Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Richman Family Precision Medicine Center of Excellence, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Krembil Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5T2S8, Canada
- Department of Medicine, Division of Neurology, University Health Network and University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5T2S8, Canada
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- Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and Neurology, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
- Memory & Aging Program, Butler Hospital, Providence, USA
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- Cerebral Imaging Centre, Douglas Research Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Biological and Biomedical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Richman Family Precision Medicine Center of Excellence, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Richman Family Precision Medicine Center of Excellence, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Norman Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases, Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, Las Vegas, NV, USA
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- Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, University Health Network and University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5T2S8, Canada
- Krembil Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5T2S8, Canada
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- Movement Disorder and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
- Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
- Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
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Spee BTM, Sladky R, Fingerhut J, Laciny A, Kraus C, Carls-Diamante S, Brücke C, Pelowski M, Treven M. Repeating patterns: Predictive processing suggests an aesthetic learning role of the basal ganglia in repetitive stereotyped behaviors. Front Psychol 2022; 13:930293. [PMID: 36160532 PMCID: PMC9497189 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.930293] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2022] [Accepted: 07/21/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Recurrent, unvarying, and seemingly purposeless patterns of action and cognition are part of normal development, but also feature prominently in several neuropsychiatric conditions. Repetitive stereotyped behaviors (RSBs) can be viewed as exaggerated forms of learned habits and frequently correlate with alterations in motor, limbic, and associative basal ganglia circuits. However, it is still unclear how altered basal ganglia feedback signals actually relate to the phenomenological variability of RSBs. Why do behaviorally overlapping phenomena sometimes require different treatment approaches-for example, sensory shielding strategies versus exposure therapy for autism and obsessive-compulsive disorder, respectively? Certain clues may be found in recent models of basal ganglia function that extend well beyond action selection and motivational control, and have implications for sensorimotor integration, prediction, learning under uncertainty, as well as aesthetic learning. In this paper, we systematically compare three exemplary conditions with basal ganglia involvement, obsessive-compulsive disorder, Parkinson's disease, and autism spectrum conditions, to gain a new understanding of RSBs. We integrate clinical observations and neuroanatomical and neurophysiological alterations with accounts employing the predictive processing framework. Based on this review, we suggest that basal ganglia feedback plays a central role in preconditioning cortical networks to anticipate self-generated, movement-related perception. In this way, basal ganglia feedback appears ideally situated to adjust the salience of sensory signals through precision weighting of (external) new sensory information, relative to the precision of (internal) predictions based on prior generated models. Accordingly, behavioral policies may preferentially rely on new data versus existing knowledge, in a spectrum spanning between novelty and stability. RSBs may then represent compensatory or reactive responses, respectively, at the opposite ends of this spectrum. This view places an important role of aesthetic learning on basal ganglia feedback, may account for observed changes in creativity and aesthetic experience in basal ganglia disorders, is empirically testable, and may inform creative art therapies in conditions characterized by stereotyped behaviors.
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- Blanca T. M. Spee
- Vienna Cognitive Science Hub, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
- Department of Neurology, Center of Expertise for Parkinson and Movement Disorders, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands
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- Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Unit, Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Department of Philosophy, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Religious Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany
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- Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Klosterneuburg, Austria
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
- Medical Neuroscience Cluster, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Medical Neuroscience Cluster, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
- Department of Neurology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Vienna Cognitive Science Hub, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
- Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Klosterneuburg, Austria
- Medical Neuroscience Cluster, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
- Department of Neurology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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Lofredi R, Auernig CG, Ewert S, Irmen F, Steiner LA, Scheller U, van Wijk BCM, Oxenford S, Kühn AA, Horn A. Interrater reliability of deep brain stimulation electrode localizations. Neuroimage 2022; 262:119552. [PMID: 35981644 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119552] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2022] [Revised: 07/15/2022] [Accepted: 08/08/2022] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
Abstract
Lead-DBS is an open-source, semi-automatized and widely applied software tool facilitating precise localization of deep brain stimulation electrodes both in native as well as in standardized stereotactic space. While automatized preprocessing steps within the toolbox have been tested and validated in previous studies, the interrater reliability in manual refinements of electrode localizations using the tool has not been objectified so far. Here, we investigate the variance introduced in this processing step by different raters when localizing electrodes based on postoperative CT or MRI. Furthermore, we compare the performance of novel trainees that received a structured training and more experienced raters with an expert user. We show that all users yield similar results with an average difference in localizations ranging between 0.52-0.75 mm with 0.07-0.12 mm increases in variability when using postoperative MRI and following normalization to standard space. Our findings may pave the way toward formal training for using Lead-DBS and demonstrate its reliability and ease-of-use for imaging research in the field of deep brain stimulation.
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- Roxanne Lofredi
- Department of Neurology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), Berlin, Germany.
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- Department of Neurology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Department of Neurology, Universitätsmedizin Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Department of Human Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Neurology, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Germany; NeuroCure, Exzellenzcluster, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany; DZNE, German center for neurodegenerative diseases, Berlin, Germany; Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
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- Department of Neurology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics Department of Neurology Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School; MGH Neurosurgery & Center for Neurotechnology and Neurorecovery (CNTR) at MGH Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
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Windbuhler A, Okkesim S, Christ O, Mottaghi S, Rastogi S, Schmuker M, Baumann T, Hofmann UG. Machine Learning Approaches to Classify Anatomical Regions in Rodent Brain from High Density Recordings. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2022; 2022:3530-3533. [PMID: 36086280 DOI: 10.1109/embc48229.2022.9871702] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Identifying different functional regions during a brain surgery is a challenging task usually performed by highly specialized neurophysiologists. Progress in this field may be used to improve in situ brain navigation and will serve as an important building block to minimize the number of animals in preclinical brain research required by properly positioning implants intraoperatively. The study at hand aims to correlate recorded extracellular signals with the volume of origin by deep learning methods. Our work establishes connections between the position in the brain and recorded high-density neural signals. This was achieved by evaluating the performance of BLSTM, BGRU, QRNN and CNN neural network architectures on multisite electrophysiological data sets. All networks were able to successfully distinguish cortical and thalamic brain regions according to their respective neural signals. The BGRU provides the best results with an accuracy of 88.6 % and demonstrates that this classification task might be solved in higher detail while minimizing complex preprocessing steps.
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Zhang Q, Zhao B, Neumann WJ, Xie H, Shi L, Zhu G, Yin Z, Qin G, Bai Y, Meng F, Yang A, Jiang Y, Zhang J. Low-frequency oscillations link frontal and parietal cortex with subthalamic nucleus in conflicts. Neuroimage 2022; 258:119389. [PMID: 35714885 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119389] [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: 01/26/2022] [Revised: 05/04/2022] [Accepted: 06/13/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Low-frequency oscillations (LFOs, 28 Hz) in the subthalamic nucleus(STN) are known to reflect cognitive conflict. However, it is unclear if LFOs mediate communication and functional interactions among regions implicated in conflict processing, such as the motor cortex (M1), premotor cortex (PMC), and superior parietal lobule (SPL). To investigate the potential contribution of LFOs to cognitive conflict mediation, we recorded M1, PMC, and SPL activities by right subdural electrocorticography (ECoG) simultaneously with bilateral STN local field potentials (LFPs) by deep brain stimulation electrodes in 13 patients with Parkinson's disease who performed the arrow version of the Eriksen flanker task. Elevated cue-related LFO activity was observed across patients during task trials, with the earliest onset in PMC and SPL. At cue onset, LFO power exhibited a significantly greater increase or a trend of a greater increase in the PMC, M1, and STN, and less increase in the SPL during high-conflict (incongruent) trials than in low-conflict (congruent) trials. The local LFO power increases in PMC, SPL, and right STN were correlated with response time, supporting the notion that these structures are critical hubs for cognitive conflict processing. This power increase was accompanied by increased functional connectivity between the PMC and right STN, which was correlated with response time across subjects. Finally, ipsilateral PMC-STN Granger causality was enhanced during high-conflict trials, with direction from STN to PMC. Our study indicates that LFOs link the frontal and parietal cortex with STN during conflicts, and the ipsilateral PMC-STN connection is specifically involved in this cognitive conflict processing.
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- Quan Zhang
- Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, The South Fourth Ring Road, West Road, Fengtai District & No. 119, Beijing 100070, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, The South Fourth Ring Road, West Road, Fengtai District & No. 119, Beijing 100070, China
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- Movement Disorder and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Charite´, Universita¨Tsmedizin Berlin, Charite´ Campus Mitte, Berlin 10117, Germany
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, The South Fourth Ring Road, West Road, Fengtai District & No. 119, Beijing 100070, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, The South Fourth Ring Road, West Road, Fengtai District & No. 119, Beijing 100070, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, The South Fourth Ring Road, West Road, Fengtai District & No. 119, Beijing 100070, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, The South Fourth Ring Road, West Road, Fengtai District & No. 119, Beijing 100070, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, The South Fourth Ring Road, West Road, Fengtai District & No. 119, Beijing 100070, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, The South Fourth Ring Road, West Road, Fengtai District & No. 119, Beijing 100070, China
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- Department of Functional Neurosurgery, Beijing Neurosurgical Institute, Capital Medical University, The South Fourth Ring Road, West Road, Fengtai District & No. 119, Beijing 100070, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, The South Fourth Ring Road, West Road, Fengtai District & No. 119, Beijing 100070, China
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- Department of Functional Neurosurgery, Beijing Neurosurgical Institute, Capital Medical University, The South Fourth Ring Road, West Road, Fengtai District & No. 119, Beijing 100070, China.
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, The South Fourth Ring Road, West Road, Fengtai District & No. 119, Beijing 100070, China; Department of Functional Neurosurgery, Beijing Neurosurgical Institute, Capital Medical University, The South Fourth Ring Road, West Road, Fengtai District & No. 119, Beijing 100070, China; Beijing Key Laboratory of Neurostimulation, Beijing, 100070, China.
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Overnight unilateral withdrawal of thalamic deep brain stimulation to identify reversibility of gait disturbances. Exp Neurol 2022; 355:114135. [DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2022.114135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2021] [Revised: 05/11/2022] [Accepted: 05/30/2022] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Oxenford S, Roediger J, Neudorfer C, Milosevic L, Güttler C, Spindler P, Vajkoczy P, Neumann WJ, Kühn A, Horn A. Lead-OR: A multimodal platform for deep brain stimulation surgery. eLife 2022; 11:e72929. [PMID: 35594135 PMCID: PMC9177150 DOI: 10.7554/elife.72929] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2021] [Accepted: 05/19/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Background Deep brain stimulation (DBS) electrode implant trajectories are stereotactically defined using preoperative neuroimaging. To validate the correct trajectory, microelectrode recordings (MERs) or local field potential recordings can be used to extend neuroanatomical information (defined by MRI) with neurophysiological activity patterns recorded from micro- and macroelectrodes probing the surgical target site. Currently, these two sources of information (imaging vs. electrophysiology) are analyzed separately, while means to fuse both data streams have not been introduced. Methods Here, we present a tool that integrates resources from stereotactic planning, neuroimaging, MER, and high-resolution atlas data to create a real-time visualization of the implant trajectory. We validate the tool based on a retrospective cohort of DBS patients (N = 52) offline and present single-use cases of the real-time platform. Results We establish an open-source software tool for multimodal data visualization and analysis during DBS surgery. We show a general correspondence between features derived from neuroimaging and electrophysiological recordings and present examples that demonstrate the functionality of the tool. Conclusions This novel software platform for multimodal data visualization and analysis bears translational potential to improve accuracy of DBS surgery. The toolbox is made openly available and is extendable to integrate with additional software packages. Funding Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft (410169619, 424778381), Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DynaSti), National Institutes of Health (2R01 MH113929), and Foundation for OCD Research (FFOR).
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- Simón Oxenford
- Movement Disorders and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Charité — Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt Universität zu BerlinBerlinGermany
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- Movement Disorders and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Charité — Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt Universität zu BerlinBerlinGermany
- Charité — Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Einstein Center for Neurosciences BerlinBerlinGermany
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- Movement Disorders and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Charité — Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt Universität zu BerlinBerlinGermany
- Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics Department of Neurology, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical SchoolBostonUnited States
- MGH Neurosurgery & Center for Neurotechnology and Neurorecovery (CNTR) at MGH Neurology Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical SchoolBostonUnited States
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- Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of TorontoTorontoCanada
- Krembil Brain Institute, University Health NetworkTorontoCanada
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- Movement Disorders and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Charité — Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt Universität zu BerlinBerlinGermany
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Charité — Universitätsmedizin BerlinBerlinGermany
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Charité — Universitätsmedizin BerlinBerlinGermany
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- Movement Disorders and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Charité — Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt Universität zu BerlinBerlinGermany
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- Movement Disorders and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Charité — Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt Universität zu BerlinBerlinGermany
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- Movement Disorders and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Charité — Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt Universität zu BerlinBerlinGermany
- Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics Department of Neurology, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical SchoolBostonUnited States
- MGH Neurosurgery & Center for Neurotechnology and Neurorecovery (CNTR) at MGH Neurology Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical SchoolBostonUnited States
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Optimal deep brain stimulation sites and networks for cervical vs. generalized dystonia. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2022; 119:e2114985119. [PMID: 35357970 PMCID: PMC9168456 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2114985119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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We studied deep brain stimulation effects in two types of dystonia and conclude that different specific connections between the pallidum and thalamus are responsible for optimal treatment effects. Since alternative treatment options for dystonia beyond deep brain stimulation are scarce, our results will be crucial to maximize treatment outcome in this population of patients. Dystonia is a debilitating disease with few treatment options. One effective option is deep brain stimulation (DBS) to the internal pallidum. While cervical and generalized forms of isolated dystonia have been targeted with a common approach to the posterior third of the nucleus, large-scale investigations regarding optimal stimulation sites and potential network effects have not been carried out. Here, we retrospectively studied clinical results following DBS for cervical and generalized dystonia in a multicenter cohort of 80 patients. We model DBS electrode placement based on pre- and postoperative imaging and introduce an approach to map optimal stimulation sites to anatomical space. Second, we investigate which tracts account for optimal clinical improvements, when modulated. Third, we investigate distributed stimulation effects on a whole-brain functional connectome level. Our results show marked differences of optimal stimulation sites that map to the somatotopic structure of the internal pallidum. While modulation of the striatopallidofugal axis of the basal ganglia accounted for optimal treatment of cervical dystonia, modulation of pallidothalamic bundles did so in generalized dystonia. Finally, we show a common multisynaptic network substrate for both phenotypes in the form of connectivity to the cerebellum and somatomotor cortex. Our results suggest a brief divergence of optimal stimulation networks for cervical vs. generalized dystonia within the pallidothalamic loop that merge again on a thalamo-cortical level and share a common whole-brain network.
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Wong JK, Patel B, Middlebrooks EH, Hilliard JD, Foote KD, Okun MS, Almeida L. Connectomic analysis of unilateral dual lead thalamic deep brain stimulation for treatment of multiple sclerosis tremor. Brain Commun 2022; 4:fcac063. [PMID: 35368612 PMCID: PMC8971897 DOI: 10.1093/braincomms/fcac063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2021] [Revised: 01/24/2022] [Accepted: 03/14/2022] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Tremor is a common symptom in multiple sclerosis and can present as a severe postural and action tremor, leading to significant disability. Owing to the diffuse and progressive nature of the disease, it has been challenging to characterize the pathophysiology underlying multiple sclerosis tremor. Deep brain stimulation of the ventralis intermedius and the ventralis oralis posterior thalamic nuclei has been used to treat medically refractory multiple sclerosis tremors with variable results. The aim of this study was to characterize multiple sclerosis tremor at the network level by applying modern connectomic techniques to data from a previously completed single-centre, randomized, single-blind prospective trial of 12 subjects who were treated with unilateral dual-lead (ventralis intermedius + ventralis oralis posterior) thalamic deep brain stimulation. Preoperative T1-weighted MRI and postoperative head CTs were used, along with applied programming settings, to estimate the volume of tissue activated for each patient. The volumes of tissue activated were then used to make voxel-wise and structural connectivity correlations with clinically observed tremor suppression. The volume of the tissue-activated analyses identified the optimal region of stimulation at the ventralis oralis posterior ventralis intermedius border intersecting with the dentato-rubro-thalamic tract. A regression model showed strong connectivity to the supplemental motor area was positively associated with tremor suppression (r = 0.66) in this cohort, whereas connectivity to the primary motor cortex was negatively associated with tremor suppression (r = −0.69), a finding opposite to that seen in ventralis intermedius deep brain stimulation for essential tremor. Comparing the structural connectivity to that of an essential tremor cohort revealed a distinct network that lies anterior to the essential tremor network. Overall, the volumes of tissue activated and connectivity observations converge to suggest that optimal suppression of multiple sclerosis tremor will likely be achieved by directing stimulation more anteriorly toward the ventralis oralis posterior and that a wide field of stimulation synergistically modulating the ventralis oralis posterior and ventralis intermedius nuclei may be more effective than traditional ventralis intermedius deep brain stimulation at suppressing the severe tremors commonly seen in complex tremor syndromes such as multiple sclerosis tremor.
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- Joshua K. Wong
- Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases, Department of Neurology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32608, USA
- Correspondence to: Joshua K. Wong, MD 3009 Williston Road Gainesville, FL 32608, USA E-mail:
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- Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases, Department of Neurology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32608, USA
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- Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32608, USA
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- Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32608, USA
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- Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases, Department of Neurology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32608, USA
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- Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases, Department of Neurology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32608, USA
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Hollunder B, Rajamani N, Siddiqi SH, Finke C, Kühn AA, Mayberg HS, Fox MD, Neudorfer C, Horn A. Toward personalized medicine in connectomic deep brain stimulation. Prog Neurobiol 2022; 210:102211. [PMID: 34958874 DOI: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2021.102211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2021] [Revised: 12/15/2021] [Accepted: 12/22/2021] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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At the group-level, deep brain stimulation leads to significant therapeutic benefit in a multitude of neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders. At the single-patient level, however, symptoms may sometimes persist despite "optimal" electrode placement at established treatment coordinates. This may be partly explained by limitations of disease-centric strategies that are unable to account for heterogeneous phenotypes and comorbidities observed in clinical practice. Instead, tailoring electrode placement and programming to individual patients' symptom profiles may increase the fraction of top-responding patients. Here, we propose a three-step, circuit-based framework with the aim of developing patient-specific treatment targets that address the unique symptom constellation prevalent in each patient. First, we describe how a symptom network target library could be established by mapping beneficial or undesirable DBS effects to distinct circuits based on (retrospective) group-level data. Second, we suggest ways of matching the resulting symptom networks to circuits defined in the individual patient (template matching). Third, we introduce network blending as a strategy to calculate optimal stimulation targets and parameters by selecting and weighting a set of symptom-specific networks based on the symptom profile and subjective priorities of the individual patient. We integrate the approach with published literature and conclude by discussing limitations and future challenges.
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- Barbara Hollunder
- Department of Neurology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Einstein Center for Neurosciences Berlin, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
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- Department of Neurology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Einstein Center for Neurosciences Berlin, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Einstein Center for Neurosciences Berlin, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany; NeuroCure Cluster of Excellence, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Nash Family Center for Advanced Circuit Therapeutics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Einstein Center for Neurosciences Berlin, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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Tödt I, Al-Fatly B, Granert O, Kühn AA, Krack P, Rau J, Timmermann L, Schnitzler A, Paschen S, Helmers AK, Hartmann A, Bardinet E, Schuepbach M, Barbe MT, Dembek TA, Fraix V, Kübler D, Brefel-Courbon C, Gharabaghi A, Wojtecki L, Pinsker MO, Thobois S, Damier P, Witjas T, Houeto JL, Schade-Brittinger C, Vidailhet M, Horn A, Deuschl G. The Contribution of Subthalamic Nucleus Deep Brain Stimulation to the Improvement in Motor Functions and Quality of Life. Mov Disord 2022; 37:291-301. [PMID: 35112384 DOI: 10.1002/mds.28952] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2021] [Revised: 01/17/2022] [Accepted: 01/17/2022] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation (STN-DBS) effectively treats motor symptoms and quality of life (QoL) of advanced and fluctuating early Parkinson's disease. Little is known about the relation between electrode position and changes in symptom control and ultimately QoL. OBJECTIVES The relation between the stimulated part of the STN and clinical outcomes, including the motor score of the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS) and the quality-of-life questionnaire, was assessed in a subcohort of the EARLYSTIM study. METHODS Sixty-nine patients from the EARLYSTIM cohort who underwent DBS, with a comprehensive clinical characterization before and 24 months after surgery, were included. Intercorrelations of clinical outcome changes, correlation between the affected functional parts of the STN, and changes in clinical outcomes were investigated. We further calculated sweet spots for different clinical parameters. RESULTS Improvements in the UPDRS III and Parkinson's Disease Questionnaire (PDQ-39) correlated positively with the extent of the overlap with the sensorimotor STN. The sweet spots for the UPDRS III (x = 11.6, y = -13.1, z = -6.3) and the PDQ-39 differed (x = 14.8, y = -12.4, z = -4.3) ~3.8 mm. CONCLUSIONS The main influence of DBS on QoL is likely mediated through the sensory-motor basal ganglia loop. The PDQ sweet spot is located in a posteroventral spatial location in the STN territory. For aspects of QoL, however, there was also evidence of improvement through stimulation of the other STN subnuclei. More research is necessary to customize the DBS target to individual symptoms of each patient. © 2022 The Authors. Movement Disorders published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society.
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- Inken Tödt
- Department of Neurology, University Hospital Schleswig Holstein, Kiel, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Movement Disorders and Neuromodulation Section, Charité Medicine University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University Hospital Schleswig Holstein, Kiel, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Movement Disorders and Neuromodulation Section, Charité Medicine University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University Hospital Bern and University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Coordinating Center for Clinical Trials, Philipps-University, Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University Hospital Giessen and Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Institute of Clinical Neuroscience and Medical Psychology, Heinrich-Heine University Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University Hospital Schleswig Holstein, Kiel, Germany
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Schleswig Holstein, Kiel, Germany
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- Assistance-Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Center d'Investigation Clinique 9503, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière, Paris, France.,Département de Neurologie, Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6 et INSERM, Paris, France
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- Department of Neurology, NS-PARK/F-CRIN, University Hospital of Besançon, Besançon, France.,Center de Neuroimagerie de Recherche, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle (ICM), Paris, France
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- Department of Neurology, University Hospital Bern and University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.,Assistance-Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Center d'Investigation Clinique 9503, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière, Paris, France.,Département de Neurologie, Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6 et INSERM, Paris, France.,Institute of Neurology, Konolfingen, Switzerland
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- Department of Neurology, University of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine, Cologne, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine, Cologne, Germany
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, Inserm, U1216, CHU Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble Institut Neurosciences, Grenoble, France.,Neurology Department, Grenoble University Hospital, Grenoble, France
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- Department of Neurology, Movement Disorders and Neuromodulation Section, Charité Medicine University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Neurosurgery and Neurotechnology Institute for Neuromodulation and Neurotechnology, University Hospital and University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
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- Department of Neurology and Neurorehabilitation, Hospital zum Heiligen Geist GmbH & Co.KG Academic Teaching Hospital of the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf Von-Broichhausen-Allee 1, Kempen, Germany
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Hospices Civils de Lyon, Hôpital Neurologique Pierre Wertheimer, Service de Neurologie C, Center Expert Parkinson, Bron, France.,Université Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Faculté de Médecine Lyon Sud Charles Mérieux, Oullins, France
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- Department of Neurology, Timone University Hospital UMR 7289, CNRS Marseille, Marseille, France
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- Hospices Civils de Lyon, Hôpital Neurologique Pierre Wertheimer, Service de Neurologie C, Center Expert Parkinson, Bron, France
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- Department of Neurology, Sorbonne Université, ICM UMR1127, INSERM &1127, CNRS 7225, Salpêtriere University Hospital AP-HP, Paris, France
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- Department of Neurology, Movement Disorders and Neuromodulation Section, Charité Medicine University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University Hospital Schleswig Holstein, Kiel, Germany
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Lee SH, Kim MS, Hwang YS, Jo S, Park KW, Jeon SR, Chung SJ. Clinical implication of stimulation-induced dyskinaesia in globus pallidus deep brain stimulation for advanced Parkinson's disease. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2022; 93:224-225. [PMID: 34408006 PMCID: PMC8785047 DOI: 10.1136/jnnp-2020-326015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2020] [Accepted: 06/20/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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- Seung Hyun Lee
- Department of Neurology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Songpa-gu, Seoul, The Republic of Korea
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- Department of Neurology, Asan Medical Center, Songpa-gu, Seoul, The Republic of Korea
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- Department of Neurology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Songpa-gu, Seoul, The Republic of Korea
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- Department of Neurology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Songpa-gu, Seoul, The Republic of Korea
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- Department of Neurology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Songpa-gu, Seoul, The Republic of Korea
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Songpa-gu, Seoul, The Republic of Korea
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- Department of Neurology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Songpa-gu, Seoul, The Republic of Korea
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Bouwens van der Vlis TA, Samanci Y, Ackermans L, Schruers KR, Temel Y, Leentjens AF, Dincer A, Peker S. Network analysis in Gamma Knife capsulotomy for intractable obsessive-compulsive disorder. BRAIN AND SPINE 2022; 2:100892. [PMID: 36248148 PMCID: PMC9562250 DOI: 10.1016/j.bas.2022.100892] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2022] [Revised: 04/18/2022] [Accepted: 04/20/2022] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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- Tim A.M. Bouwens van der Vlis
- Department of Neurosurgery, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, the Netherlands
- Corresponding author. Department of Neurosurgery, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht (MUMC+) PO Box 5800, 6202 AZ, Maastricht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, the Netherlands
- School of Mental Health and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands
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- School of Mental Health and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, the Netherlands
- School of Mental Health and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands
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- School of Mental Health and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Radiology, Acıbadem Mehmet Ali Aydınlar University, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey
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Moussawi K, Kim MJ, Baybayan S, Wood M, Mills KA. Deep brain stimulation effect on anterior pallidum reduces motor impulsivity in Parkinson's disease. Brain Stimul 2022; 15:23-31. [PMID: 34749005 PMCID: PMC8816820 DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2021.11.006] [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: 07/19/2021] [Revised: 10/09/2021] [Accepted: 11/04/2021] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) of the subthalamic nucleus or globus pallidus internus is used to treat the motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease. The former can worsen impulsive and compulsive behaviors after controlling for the reduction of dopaminergic medications. However, the effect of pallidal DBS on such behaviors in PD patients is less clear. OBJECTIVE/HYPOTHESIS We hypothesized that greater stimulation spread to the pallidum with prefrontal connectivity would reduce motor impulsivity. METHODS Seven Parkinson's patients with stable globus pallidus internus DBS settings for 3 months, disease duration of 13 ± 1.3 years, and Montreal Cognitive Assessment of 26.8 ± 1.1 each had two stimulation settings defined based on reconstructions of lead placement and volume of tissue activation targeting either a dorsal or ventral position along the DBS electrode but still within the globus pallidus internus. Subjects performed a stop signal reaction time task with the DBS turned off vs. on in each of the defined stimulation settings, which was correlated with the degree of stimulation effect on pallidal subregions. RESULTS A shorter distance between the volume of tissue activation and the right prefrontally-connected GPi correlated with less impulsivity on the stop signal reaction time task (r = 0.69, p < 0.05). Greater volume of tissue activation overlap with the non-prefrontally-connected globus pallidus internus was associated with increased impulsivity. CONCLUSION These data can be leveraged to optimize DBS programming in PD patients with problematic impulsivity or in other disorders involving impulsive behaviors such as substance use disorders.
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- Khaled Moussawi
- Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Corresponding Author: Kelly A. Mills, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Dept. of Neurology, Meyer 6-181D, 600 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21287, Phone: 410-502-0133,
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- Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Corresponding Author: Kelly A. Mills, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Dept. of Neurology, Meyer 6-181D, 600 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21287, Phone: 410-502-0133,
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White matter variability, cognition, and disorders: a systematic review. Brain Struct Funct 2021; 227:529-544. [PMID: 34731328 PMCID: PMC8844174 DOI: 10.1007/s00429-021-02382-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2021] [Accepted: 09/03/2021] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Inter-individual differences can inform treatment procedures and—if accounted for—have the potential to significantly improve patient outcomes. However, when studying brain anatomy, these inter-individual variations are commonly unaccounted for, despite reports of differences in gross anatomical features, cross-sectional, and connectional anatomy. Brain connections are essential to facilitate functional organization and, when severed, cause impairments or complete loss of function. Hence, the study of cerebral white matter may be an ideal compromise to capture inter-individual variability in structure and function. We reviewed the wealth of studies that associate cognitive functions and clinical symptoms with individual tracts using diffusion tractography. Our systematic review indicates that tractography has proven to be a sensitive method in neurology, psychiatry, and healthy populations to identify variability and its functional correlates. However, the literature may be biased, as the most commonly studied tracts are not necessarily those with the highest sensitivity to cognitive functions and pathologies. Additionally, the hemisphere of the studied tract is often unreported, thus neglecting functional laterality and asymmetries. Finally, we demonstrate that tracts, as we define them, are not correlated with one, but multiple cognitive domains or pathologies. While our systematic review identified some methodological caveats, it also suggests that tract–function correlations might still be a promising tool in identifying biomarkers for precision medicine. They can characterize variations in brain anatomy, differences in functional organization, and predicts resilience and recovery in patients.
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Eguchi K, Shirai S, Matsushima M, Kano T, Yamazaki K, Hamauchi S, Sasamori T, Seki T, Hirata K, Kitagawa M, Otsuki M, Shiga T, Houkin K, Sasaki H, Yabe I. Correlation of active contact location with weight gain after subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation: a case series. BMC Neurol 2021; 21:351. [PMID: 34517835 PMCID: PMC8436541 DOI: 10.1186/s12883-021-02383-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2021] [Accepted: 09/01/2021] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Background Weight gain (WG) is a frequently reported side effect of subthalamic deep brain stimulation; however, the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. The active contact locations influence the clinical outcomes of subthalamic deep brain stimulation, but it is unclear whether WG is directly associated with the active contact locations. We aimed to determine whether WG is associated with the subthalamic deep brain stimulation active contact locations. Methods We enrolled 14 patients with Parkinson’s disease who underwent bilateral subthalamic deep brain stimulation between 2013 and 2019. Bodyweight and body mass index were measured before and one year following the surgery. The Lead-DBS Matlab toolbox was used to determine the active contact locations based on magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography. We also created sweet spot maps for WG using voxel-wise statistics, based on volume of tissue activation and the WG of each patient. Fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography data were also acquired before and one year following surgery, and statistical parametric mapping was used to evaluate changes in brain metabolism. We examined which brain regions’ metabolism fluctuation significantly correlated with increased body mass index scores and positron emission tomography data. Results One year after surgery, the body mass index increase was 2.03 kg/m2. The sweet spots for WG were bilateral, mainly located dorsally outside of the subthalamic nucleus (STN). Furthermore, WG was correlated with increased metabolism in the left limbic and associative regions, including the middle temporal gyrus, inferior frontal gyrus, and orbital gyrus. Conclusions Although the mechanisms underlying WG following subthalamic deep brain stimulation are possibly multifactorial, our findings suggest that dorsal stimulation outside of STN may lead to WG. The metabolic changes in limbic and associative cortical regions after STN-DBS may also be one of the mechanisms underlying WG. Further studies are warranted to confirm whether dorsal stimulation outside of STN changes the activities of these cortical regions.
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- Katsuki Eguchi
- Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Kita 15, Nishi 7, Kita-ku, 060-8638, Sapporo, Japan.
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- Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Kita 15, Nishi 7, Kita-ku, 060-8638, Sapporo, Japan
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- Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Kita 15, Nishi 7, Kita-ku, 060-8638, Sapporo, Japan
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- Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Kita 15, Nishi 7, Kita-ku, 060-8638, Sapporo, Japan
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Kita 15, Nishi 7, Kita-ku, 060-8638, Sapporo, Japan
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Kita 15, Nishi 7, Kita-ku, 060-8638, Sapporo, Japan
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Sapporo Azabu Neurosurgical Hospital, Kita 22, Higashi 1, Higashi-ku, 065-0022, Sapporo, Japan
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Kita 15, Nishi 7, Kita-ku, 060-8638, Sapporo, Japan
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- Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Faculty of Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Kita 15, Nishi 7, Kita-ku, 060-8638, Sapporo, Japan
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- Sapporo Teishinkai Hospital, Kita 33, Higashi 1, Higashi-ku, 065-0033, Sapporo, Japan
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- Faculty of Health Sciences, Graduate School of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Kita 15, Nishi 7, Kita-ku, 060-8638, Sapporo, Japan
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Kita 15, Nishi 7, Kita-ku, 060-8638, Sapporo, Japan
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Kita 15, Nishi 7, Kita-ku, 060-8638, Sapporo, Japan
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- Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Kita 15, Nishi 7, Kita-ku, 060-8638, Sapporo, Japan
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- Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Kita 15, Nishi 7, Kita-ku, 060-8638, Sapporo, Japan
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Sobesky L, Goede L, Odekerken VJJ, Wang Q, Li N, Neudorfer C, Rajamani N, Al-Fatly B, Reich M, Volkmann J, de Bie RMA, Kühn AA, Horn A. Subthalamic and pallidal deep brain stimulation: are we modulating the same network? Brain 2021; 145:251-262. [PMID: 34453827 DOI: 10.1093/brain/awab258] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2021] [Revised: 04/05/2021] [Accepted: 06/21/2021] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The subthalamic nucleus and internal pallidum are main target sites for deep brain stimulation in Parkinson's disease. Multiple trials that investigated subthalamic versus pallidal stimulation were unable to settle on a definitive optimal target between the two. One reason could be that the effect is mediated via a common functional network. To test this hypothesis, we calculated connectivity profiles seeding from deep brain stimulation electrodes in 94 patients that underwent subthalamic and 28 patients with pallidal treatment based on a normative connectome atlas calculated from 1,000 healthy subjects. In each cohort, we calculated connectivity profiles that were associated with optimal clinical improvements. The two maps showed striking similarity and were able to cross-predict outcomes in the respective other cohort (R = 0.37 at p < 0.001; R = 0.34 at p = 0.032). Next, we calculated an agreement map which retained regions common to both target sites. Crucially, this map was able to explain an additional amount of variance in clinical improvements of either cohort when compared to the maps calculated on the two cohorts alone. Finally, we tested profiles and predictive utility of connectivity maps calculated from different motor symptom subscores with a specific focus on bradykinesia and rigidity. While our study is based on retrospective data and indirect connectivity metrics, it may deliver empirical data to support the hypothesis of a largely overlapping network associated with effective deep brain stimulation in Parkinson's disease irrespective of the specific target.
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- Leon Sobesky
- Movement Disorder and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Charité Campus Mitte, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin 10117, Germany
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- Movement Disorder and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Charité Campus Mitte, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin 10117, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Movement Disorder and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Charité Campus Mitte, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin 10117, Germany
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- Movement Disorder and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Charité Campus Mitte, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin 10117, Germany
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- Movement Disorder and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Charité Campus Mitte, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin 10117, Germany
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- Movement Disorder and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Charité Campus Mitte, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin 10117, Germany
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- Movement Disorder and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Charité Campus Mitte, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin 10117, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University Clinic of Würzburg, Josef-Schneider-Str. 11, 97080 Würzburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University Clinic of Würzburg, Josef-Schneider-Str. 11, 97080 Würzburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Movement Disorder and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Charité Campus Mitte, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin 10117, Germany
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- Movement Disorder and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Charité Campus Mitte, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin 10117, Germany
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Strotzer QD, Kohl Z, Anthofer JM, Faltermeier R, Schmidt NO, Torka E, Greenlee MW, Fellner C, Schlaier JR, Beer AL. Structural Connectivity Patterns of Side Effects Induced by Subthalamic Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson's Disease. Brain Connect 2021; 12:374-384. [PMID: 34210163 DOI: 10.1089/brain.2021.0051] [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] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Background: Tractography based on diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DWI) models the structural connectivity of the human brain. Deep brain stimulation (DBS) targeting the subthalamic nucleus is an effective treatment for advanced Parkinson's disease, but may induce adverse effects. This study investigated the relationship between structural connectivity patterns of DBS electrodes and stimulation-induced side effects. Materials and Methods: Twenty-one patients with Parkinson's disease treated with bilateral subthalamic DBS were examined. Overall, 168 electrode contacts were categorized as inducing or noninducing depending on their capability for inducing side effects such as motor effects, paresthesia, dysarthria, oculomotor effects, hyperkinesia, and other complications as assessed during the initial programming session. Furthermore, the connectivity of each contact with target regions was evaluated by probabilistic tractography based on DWI. Finally, stimulation sites and structural connectivity patterns of inducing and noninducing contacts were compared. Results: Inducing contacts differed across the various side effects and from those mitigating Parkinson's symptoms. Although contacts showed a largely overlapping spatial distribution within the subthalamic region, they could be distinguished by their connectivity patterns. In particular, inducing contacts were more likely connected with supplementary motor areas (hyperkinesia, dysarthria), frontal cortex (oculomotor), fibers of the internal capsule (paresthesia), and the basal ganglia-thalamo-cortical circuitry (dysarthria). Discussion: Side effects induced by DBS seem to be associated with distinct connectivity patterns. Cerebellar connections are hardly associated with side effects, although they seem relevant for mitigating motor symptoms in Parkinson's disease. A symptom-specific, connectivity-based approach for target planning in DBS may enhance treatment outcomes and reduce adverse effects.
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- Quirin D Strotzer
- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Regensburg Medical Center, Regensburg, Germany.,Center for Deep Brain Stimulation, University of Regensburg Medical Center, Regensburg, Germany.,Institute of Radiology, and University of Regensburg Medical Center, Regensburg, Germany
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- Center for Deep Brain Stimulation, University of Regensburg Medical Center, Regensburg, Germany.,Department of Neurology, University of Regensburg Medical Center, Regensburg, Germany.,Department of Molecular Neurology, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Regensburg Medical Center, Regensburg, Germany.,Center for Deep Brain Stimulation, University of Regensburg Medical Center, Regensburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Regensburg Medical Center, Regensburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Regensburg Medical Center, Regensburg, Germany
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- Center for Deep Brain Stimulation, University of Regensburg Medical Center, Regensburg, Germany.,Department of Neurology, University of Regensburg Medical Center, Regensburg, Germany
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- Institute of Psychology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Institute of Radiology, and University of Regensburg Medical Center, Regensburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Regensburg Medical Center, Regensburg, Germany.,Center for Deep Brain Stimulation, University of Regensburg Medical Center, Regensburg, Germany
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- Institute of Psychology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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Torres Díaz CV, Treu S, Strange B, Lara M, Navas M, Ezquiaga E, Zazo ES, Vicente JS, Muñiz I, Fernandez FS. Deep Brain Stimulation of the Nucleus Accumbens, Ventral Striatum, or Internal Capsule Targets for Medication-Resistant Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Multicenter Study. World Neurosurg 2021; 155:e168-e176. [PMID: 34403796 DOI: 10.1016/j.wneu.2021.08.039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2021] [Revised: 08/06/2021] [Accepted: 08/07/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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BACKGROUND Deep brain stimulation of the nucleus accumbens, ventral striatum, or internal capsule region has shown a 45%-60% response rate in adults with severe treatment-refractory obsessive-compulsive disorder, regardless of which target is used. We sought to improve the effectiveness of deep brain stimulation by placing the electrode along a trajectory including these 3 targets, enabling a change of stimulation site depending on the patient's response. METHODS This study used the medical records of 14 patients from 4 different Spanish institutions: 7 from the Hospital Universitario La Princesa, 3 from the Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, 2 from Hospital Universitario Fundación Jiménez Díaz, and 2 from Hospital Universitari Son Espases. All patients were operated on under the same protocol. Qualitative and quantitative data were collected. RESULTS Of 14 patients, 11 showed significant improvement in obsessive-compulsive disorder symptoms, as evident in a reduction ≥35% in Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale scores following stimulation relative to preoperative scores. Seven patients responded to stimulation at the nucleus accumbens (the first area we set for stimulation), whereas 4 patients needed to have the active contact switched to the internal capsule to benefit from stimulation. CONCLUSIONS Deep brain stimulation of the nucleus accumbens, internal capsule, and ventral striatum significantly benefited our cohort of patients with medication-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder. Electrode insertion through the 3 main targets might confer additional therapeutic efficacy.
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- Cristina V Torres Díaz
- Department of Neurourgery, Hospital Universitario La Princesa, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
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- Laboratory for Clinical Neuroscience, Centre of Biomedical Technology, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Laboratory for Clinical Neuroscience, Centre of Biomedical Technology, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Hospital Universitario Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Neurourgery, Hospital Universitario La Princesa, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Psychiatry, Hospital Universitario La Princesa, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Psychiatry, Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, Oviedo, Spain
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- Department of Psychology, Universidad Anáhuac Cancún, Cancún, Mexico
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Coenen VA, Reisert M. DTI for brain targeting: Diffusion weighted imaging fiber tractography-Assisted deep brain stimulation. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF NEUROBIOLOGY 2021; 159:47-67. [PMID: 34446250 DOI: 10.1016/bs.irn.2021.07.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Fiber tractography assisted Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) has been performed by different groups for more than 10 years to now. Groups around the world have adapted initial approaches to currently embrace the fiber tractography technology mainly for treating tremor (DBS and lesions), psychiatric indications (OCD and major depression) and pain (DBS). Despite the advantages of directly visualizing the target structure, the technology is demanding and is vulnerable to inaccuracies especially since it is performed on individual level. In this contribution, we will focus on tremor and psychiatric indications, and will show future applications of sophisticated tractography applications for subthalamic nucleus (STN) DBS surgery and stimulation steering as an example.
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- Volker A Coenen
- Department of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, Medical Center of Freiburg University, Freiburg, Germany; Medical Faculty of Freiburg University, Freiburg, Germany; Center for Deep Brain Stimulation, Medical Center of Freiburg University, Freiburg, Germany.
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- Department of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, Medical Center of Freiburg University, Freiburg, Germany; Medical Faculty of Freiburg University, Freiburg, Germany; Department of Radiology-Medical Physics, Freiburg University, Freiburg, Germany
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