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Bologna M, Paparella G, Valls-Solé J, Hallett M, Berardelli A. Neural control of blinking. Clin Neurophysiol 2024; 161:59-68. [PMID: 38447495 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2024.02.023] [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: 10/31/2023] [Revised: 02/01/2024] [Accepted: 02/07/2024] [Indexed: 03/08/2024]
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Blinking is a motor act characterized by the sequential closing and opening of the eyelids, which is achieved through the reciprocal activation of the orbicularis oculi and levator palpebrae superioris muscles. This stereotyped movement can be triggered reflexively, occur spontaneously, or voluntarily initiated. During each type of blinking, the neural control of the antagonistic interaction between the orbicularis oculi and levator palpebrae superioris muscles is governed by partially overlapping circuits distributed across cortical, subcortical, and brainstem structures. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of the anatomical and physiological foundations underlying the neural control of blinking. We describe the infra-nuclear apparatus, as well as the supra-nuclear control mechanisms, i.e., how cortical, subcortical, and brainstem structures regulate and coordinate the different types of blinking.
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Affiliation(s)
- Matteo Bologna
- Department of Human Neurosciences, Sapienza, University of Rome, Rome, Italy; IRCCS Neuromed, Pozzilli, IS, Italy.
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- Department of Human Neurosciences, Sapienza, University of Rome, Rome, Italy; IRCCS Neuromed, Pozzilli, IS, Italy
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- Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica August Pi i Sunyer, Barcelona, Spain
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- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Human Neurosciences, Sapienza, University of Rome, Rome, Italy; IRCCS Neuromed, Pozzilli, IS, Italy
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Cao L, Palmisano C, Chen X, Isaias IU, Händel BF. Spontaneous blink-related beta power increase and theta phase reset in subthalamic nucleus of Parkinson patients during walking. Clin Neurophysiol 2024; 161:17-26. [PMID: 38432185 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2024.02.019] [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: 12/20/2023] [Accepted: 02/11/2024] [Indexed: 03/05/2024]
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OBJECTIVE Both blinking and walking are altered in Parkinson's disease and both motor outputs have been shown to be linked in healthy subjects. Additionally, studies suggest an involvement of basal ganglia activity and striatal dopamine in blink generation. We investigated the role of the basal ganglia circuitry on spontaneous blinking and if this role is dependent on movement state and striatal dopamine. METHODS We analysed subthalamic nucleus (STN) activity in seven chronically implanted patients for deep brain stimulation (DBS) with respect to blinks and movement state (resting state and unperturbed walking). Neurophysiological recordings were combined with individual molecular brain imaging assessing the dopamine reuptake transporter (DAT) density for the left and right striatum separately. RESULTS We found a significantly higher blink rate during walking compared to resting. The blink rate during walking positively correlated with the DAT density of the left caudate nucleus. During walking only, spontaneous blinking was followed by an increase in the right STN beta power and a bilateral subthalamic phase reset in the low frequencies. The right STN blink-related beta power modulation correlated negatively with the DAT density of the contralateral putamen. The left STN blink-related beta power correlated with the DAT density of the putamen in the less dopamine-depleted hemisphere. Both correlations were specific to the walking condition and to beta power following a blink. CONCLUSION Our findings show that spontaneous blinking is related to striatal dopamine and has a frequency specific deployment in the STN. This correlation depends on the current movement state such as walking. SIGNIFICANCE This work indicates that subcortical activity following a motor event as well as the relationship between dopamine and motor events can be dependent on the motor state. Accordingly, disease related changes in brain activity should be assessed during natural movement.
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- Liyu Cao
- Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China; Department of Psychology (III), Julius-Maximilian-University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University Hospital of Würzburg and Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychology (III), Julius-Maximilian-University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University Hospital of Würzburg and Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany; Parkinson Institute Milan, ASST G. Pini CTO, Milano, Italy
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- Department of Psychology (III), Julius-Maximilian-University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany; Department of Neurology, University Hospital of Würzburg and Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
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Gündüz A, Aliş C, Kızıltan ME. Blink reflex excitability in patients with Hemifacial spasm exhibiting different abnormal discharge patterns: from early isolated discharges to later grouped bursts or tonic spasms. Acta Neurol Belg 2024; 124:495-501. [PMID: 38296894 DOI: 10.1007/s13760-023-02445-1] [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: 05/01/2023] [Accepted: 11/27/2023] [Indexed: 02/02/2024]
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OBJECTIVE We studied blink reflex (BR) and BR excitability recovery (BRER) in patients with hemifacial spasm (HFS) exhibiting different abnormal discharge patterns. We hypothesized that patients with groups of clonic or tonic burst activities appear later in the disease course and may have more excitability of the BR circuit at the brainstem compared to patients with isolated twitchings, which occur earlier. METHODS We included 124 patients with botulinum toxin-naive HFS (mean age 50.6 ± 13.3 years) and 40 healthy subjects. We performed surface polymyography on facial muscles in patients and classified them according to the abnormal discharge pattern: isolated discharges, grouped bursts forming random sequences, tonic spasms, and a combination of these activities. Then, we recorded BR and BRER at 200, 600, and 1000 ms interstimulus intervals. We compared disease duration, R1 and R2 latencies, R2 area-under-the-curve (AUC), and BRER% (i) between healthy subjects and patients and (ii) among groups of patients with different abnormal discharge patterns. RESULTS There were isolated discharges in 28 patients, grouped bursts forming random sequences in 42, and continuous muscle activity with tonic spasms in one. The remaining patients had combinations. Mean R1 and R2 latencies were significantly longer, and mean R2 AUC was significantly higher on the symptomatic side of patients compared to healthy subjects. The mean BRER was enhanced on both sides in patients than in healthy subjects (p < 0.001). However, it was similar among patient groups with different abnormal discharge patterns (p > 0.05). The mean disease duration in patients with isolated discharges was shorter (3.3 ± 2.0 years) than those with grouped bursts or tonic spasms (p = 0.002; Kruskal-Wallis test). CONCLUSION Our study observed that excitability at the brainstem was similar in HFS patients with different abnormal discharge patterns, suggesting that the difference in discharge patterns in HFS may be due to a reason other than the difference in BR excitability.
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- Ayşegül Gündüz
- Cerrahpasa Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Istanbul, Türkiye.
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- Cerrahpasa Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Istanbul, Türkiye
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- Cerrahpasa Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Istanbul, Türkiye
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Bianchini E, Rinaldi D, Alborghetti M, Simonelli M, D’Audino F, Onelli C, Pegolo E, Pontieri FE. The Story behind the Mask: A Narrative Review on Hypomimia in Parkinson's Disease. Brain Sci 2024; 14:109. [PMID: 38275529 PMCID: PMC10814039 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci14010109] [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: 12/04/2023] [Revised: 01/18/2024] [Accepted: 01/19/2024] [Indexed: 01/27/2024] Open
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Facial movements are crucial for social and emotional interaction and well-being. Reduced facial expressions (i.e., hypomimia) is a common feature in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) and previous studies linked this manifestation to both motor symptoms of the disease and altered emotion recognition and processing. Nevertheless, research on facial motor impairment in PD has been rather scarce and only a limited number of clinical evaluation tools are available, often suffering from poor validation processes and high inter- and intra-rater variability. In recent years, the availability of technology-enhanced quantification methods of facial movements, such as automated video analysis and machine learning application, led to increasing interest in studying hypomimia in PD. In this narrative review, we summarize the current knowledge on pathophysiological hypotheses at the basis of hypomimia in PD, with particular focus on the association between reduced facial expressions and emotional processing and analyze the current evaluation tools and management strategies for this symptom, as well as future research perspectives.
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- Edoardo Bianchini
- Department of Neuroscience, Mental Health and Sensory Organs (NESMOS), Sapienza University of Rome, 00189 Rome, Italy; (E.B.); (D.R.); (M.A.); (M.S.)
- AGEIS, Université Grenoble Alpes, 38000 Grenoble, France
- Sant’Andrea University Hospital, 00189 Rome, Italy;
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- Department of Neuroscience, Mental Health and Sensory Organs (NESMOS), Sapienza University of Rome, 00189 Rome, Italy; (E.B.); (D.R.); (M.A.); (M.S.)
- Sant’Andrea University Hospital, 00189 Rome, Italy;
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- Department of Neuroscience, Mental Health and Sensory Organs (NESMOS), Sapienza University of Rome, 00189 Rome, Italy; (E.B.); (D.R.); (M.A.); (M.S.)
- Sant’Andrea University Hospital, 00189 Rome, Italy;
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- Department of Neuroscience, Mental Health and Sensory Organs (NESMOS), Sapienza University of Rome, 00189 Rome, Italy; (E.B.); (D.R.); (M.A.); (M.S.)
- Ospedale dei Castelli, ASL Rome 6, 00040 Ariccia, Italy
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padova, 35121 Padova, Italy;
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- Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, 35131 Padova, Italy;
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- Department of Neuroscience, Mental Health and Sensory Organs (NESMOS), Sapienza University of Rome, 00189 Rome, Italy; (E.B.); (D.R.); (M.A.); (M.S.)
- Sant’Andrea University Hospital, 00189 Rome, Italy;
- Fondazione Santa Lucia IRCCS, 00179 Rome, Italy
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Target Site of Prepulse Inhibition of the Trigeminal Blink Reflex in Humans. J Neurosci 2023; 43:261-269. [PMID: 36443001 PMCID: PMC9838709 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.1468-22.2022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2022] [Revised: 11/15/2022] [Accepted: 11/21/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Despite the clinical significance of prepulse inhibition (PPI), the mechanisms are not well understood. Herein, we present our investigation of PPI in the R1 component of electrically induced blink reflexes. The effect of a prepulse was explored with varying prepulse test intervals (PTIs) of 20-600 ms in 4 females and 12 males. Prepulse-test combinations included the following: stimulation of the supraorbital nerve (SON)-SON [Experiment (Exp) 1], sound-sound (Exp 2), the axon of the facial nerve-SON (Exp 3), sound-SON (Exp 4), and SON-SON with a long trial-trial interval (Exp 5). Results showed that (1) leading weak SON stimulation reduced SON-induced ipsilateral R1 with a maximum effect at a PTI of 140 ms, (2) the sound-sound paradigm resulted in a U-shaped inhibition time course of the auditory startle reflex (ASR) peaking at 140 ms PTI, (3) facial nerve stimulation showed only a weak effect on R1, (4) a weak sound prepulse facilitated R1 but strongly inhibited SON-induced late blink reflexes (LateRs) with a similar U-shaped curve, and (5) LateR in Exp 5 was almost completely absent at PTIs >80 ms. These results indicate that the principal sensory nucleus is responsible for R1 PPI. Inhibition of ASR or LateR occurs at a point in the startle reflex circuit where auditory and somatosensory signals converge. Although the two inhibitions are different in location, their similar time courses suggest similar neural mechanisms. As R1 has a simple circuit and is stable, R1 PPI helps to clarify PPI mechanisms.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT Prepulse inhibition (PPI) is a phenomenon in which the startle response induced by a startle stimulus is suppressed by a preceding nonstartle stimulus. This study demonstrated that the R1 component of the trigeminal blink reflex shows clear PPI despite R1 generation within a circuit consisting of the trigeminal and facial nuclei, without startle reflex circuit involvement. Thus, PPI is not specific to the startle reflex. In addition, PPI of R1, the auditory startle reflex, and the trigeminal late blink reflex showed similar time courses in response to the prepulse test interval, suggesting similar mechanisms regardless of inhibition site. R1 PPI, in conjunction with other paradigms with different prepulse-test combinations, would increase understanding of the underlying mechanisms.
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Validating a Portable Device for Blinking Analyses through Laboratory Neurophysiological Techniques. Brain Sci 2022; 12:brainsci12091228. [PMID: 36138962 PMCID: PMC9496691 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci12091228] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2022] [Revised: 09/02/2022] [Accepted: 09/06/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Blinking analysis contributes to the understanding of physiological mechanisms in healthy subjects as well as the pathophysiological mechanisms of neurological diseases. To date, blinking is assessed by various neurophysiological techniques, including electromyographic (EMG) recordings and optoelectronic motion analysis. We recorded eye-blink kinematics with a new portable device, the EyeStat (Generation 3, blinktbi, Inc., Charleston, SC, USA), and compared the measurements with data obtained using traditional laboratory-based techniques. Sixteen healthy adults underwent voluntary, spontaneous, and reflex blinking recordings using the EyeStat device and the SMART motion analysis system (BTS, Milan, Italy). During the blinking recordings, the EMG activity was recorded from the orbicularis oculi muscles using surface electrodes. The blinking data were analyzed through dedicated software and evaluated with repeated-measure analyses of variance. The Pearson’s product-moment correlation coefficient served to assess possible associations between the EyeStat device, the SMART motion system, and the EMG data. We found that the EMG data collected during the EyeStat and SMART system recordings did not differ. The blinking data recorded with the EyeStat showed a linear relationship with the results obtained with the SMART system (r ranging from 0.85 to 0.57; p ranging from <0.001 to 0.02). These results demonstrate a high accuracy and reliability of a blinking analysis through this portable device, compared with standard techniques. EyeStat may make it easier to record blinking in research activities and in daily clinical practice, thus allowing large-scale studies in healthy subjects and patients with neurological diseases in an outpatient clinic setting.
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Rothwell J, Antal A, Burke D, Carlsen A, Georgiev D, Jahanshahi M, Sternad D, Valls-Solé J, Ziemann U. Central nervous system physiology. Clin Neurophysiol 2021; 132:3043-3083. [PMID: 34717225 PMCID: PMC8863401 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2021.09.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2021] [Revised: 09/13/2021] [Accepted: 09/20/2021] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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This is the second chapter of the series on the use of clinical neurophysiology for the study of movement disorders. It focusses on methods that can be used to probe neural circuits in brain and spinal cord. These include use of spinal and supraspinal reflexes to probe the integrity of transmission in specific pathways; transcranial methods of brain stimulation such as transcranial magnetic stimulation and transcranial direct current stimulation, which activate or modulate (respectively) the activity of populations of central neurones; EEG methods, both in conjunction with brain stimulation or with behavioural measures that record the activity of populations of central neurones; and pure behavioural measures that allow us to build conceptual models of motor control. The methods are discussed mainly in relation to work on healthy individuals. Later chapters will focus specifically on changes caused by pathology.
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- John Rothwell
- Department of Clinical and Movement Neuroscience, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, UK,Corresponding author at: Department of Clinical and Movement Neuroscience, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London WC1N 3BG, UK, (J. Rothwell)
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, University of Sydney, Sydney 2050, Australia
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- School of Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Department of Clinical and Movement Neuroscience, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, UK
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- Departments of Biology, Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Institut d’Investigació Biomèdica August Pi I Sunyer, Villarroel, 170, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Neurology and Stroke, and Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany
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Blink reflex in newly diagnosed and treated patients with Wilson's disease. J Neural Transm (Vienna) 2021; 128:1873-1880. [PMID: 34669020 PMCID: PMC8571127 DOI: 10.1007/s00702-021-02432-x] [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: 08/21/2021] [Accepted: 10/14/2021] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Abnormal blink reflex (BR) results mainly from the dysfunction of reticular brainstem pathways and is one of the features of degenerative brain disorders. We aimed to investigate whether patients with Wilson’s disease (WD) have abnormal BR. This was a prospective, observational, single-center study. BR was assessed in accordance with generally accepted standards in 44 newly diagnosed treatment-naïve and 66 treated patients with WD. Any abnormal parameters in BR were observed in 45.5% treatment-naïve patients and 37.9% treated patients (p = 0.429). We also did not observe significant differences in BR parameters and frequency of abnormal findings between treated and treatment naïve patients. Abnormal findings in any of the BR parameters were more frequent in patients with neurological vs. non-neurological presentation (57.5 vs. 28.6%, p = 0.002), present vs. absent Kayser–Fleischer ring (73 vs. 21.5%, p < 0.001), and typical vs. no typical WD abnormalities in brain MRI (50% vs. 24.4%, p = 0.009). In addition, longer median R1 and R2 latencies, both ipsilateral and contralateral, were significantly more frequent in neurological than non-neurological WD patients, those with Kayser–Fleischer rings, and those with abnormal MRI findings typical of WD. Our results confirm frequent BR abnormalities in WD, which may be explained by the pathological influence of copper deposits in the circuit linking the basal ganglia, cerebellum and brainstem.
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Mechelli A, Quattrone A, Nisticò R, Crasà M, La Torre D, Vescio B, Quattrone A. Blink reflex recovery cycle distinguishes patients with idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus from elderly subjects. J Neurol 2021; 269:1007-1012. [PMID: 34213613 DOI: 10.1007/s00415-021-10687-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2021] [Revised: 06/18/2021] [Accepted: 06/24/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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BACKGROUND The R2 component of blink reflex recovery cycle (R2BRrc) is a simple neurophysiological tool to detect the brainstem hyperexcitability commonly occurring in several neurological diseases such as Parkinson's disease and atypical parkinsonisms. In our study, we investigated for the first time the usefulness of R2BRrc to assess brainstem excitability in patients with idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus (iNPH) in comparison with healthy subjects. METHODS Eighteen iNPH patients and 25 age-matched control subjects were enrolled. R2BRrc was bilaterally evaluated at interstimulus intervals (ISIs) of 100, 150, 200, 300, 400, 500 and 750 ms in all participants. We investigated the diagnostic performance of R2BRrc in differentiating iNPH patients from control subjects using ROC analysis. Midbrain area and Magnetic Resonance Hydrocephalic Index (MRHI), an MRI biomarker for the diagnosis of iNPH, were measured on T1-weighted MR images, and correlations between R2BRrc values and MRI measurements were investigated. RESULTS Fourteen (78%) of 18 iNPH patients showed an enhanced R2BRrc at ISIs 100-150-200 ms, while no control subjects had abnormal R2BRrc. The mean amplitude of bilateral R2BRrc at the shortest ISIs (100-150-200 ms) showed high accuracy in differentiating iNPH patients from controls (AUC = 0.89). R2BRrc values significantly correlated with midbrain area and MRHI values. CONCLUSIONS This study represents the first evidence of brainstem hyperexcitability in iNPH patients. Given its low cost and wide availability, R2BRrc could be a useful tool for selecting elderly subjects with mild gait and urinary dysfunction who should undergo an extensive diagnostic workup for the diagnosis of NPH.
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- Alessandro Mechelli
- Department of Medical Sciences, Institute of Neurology, University Magna Graecia, Catanzaro, Italy
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- Department of Medical Sciences, Institute of Neurology, University Magna Graecia, Catanzaro, Italy
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- Neuroimaging Research Unit, Institute of Molecular Bioimaging and Physiology, National Research Council, Catanzaro, Italy
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- Neuroscience Research Centre, University Magna Graecia, Catanzaro, Italy
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- Department of Medical Sciences, Institute of Neurosurgery, University Magna Graecia, Catanzaro, Italy
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- Neuroimaging Research Unit, Institute of Molecular Bioimaging and Physiology, National Research Council, Catanzaro, Italy. .,Neuroscience Research Centre, University Magna Graecia, Catanzaro, Italy. .,Neuroscience Centre and Neuroimaging Research Unit, Institute of Molecular Bioimaging and Physiology, National Research Council, Magna Graecia University, 88100, Catanzaro, Italy.
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Ocular measures during associative learning predict recall accuracy. Int J Psychophysiol 2021; 166:103-115. [PMID: 34052234 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2021.05.010] [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: 11/01/2019] [Revised: 05/19/2021] [Accepted: 05/25/2021] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The ability to form associations between stimuli and commit those associations to memory is a cornerstone of human cognition. Dopamine and noradrenaline are critical neuromodulators implicated in a range of cognitive functions, including learning and memory. Eye blink rate (EBR) and pupil diameter have been shown to index dopaminergic and noradrenergic activity. Here, we examined how these ocular measures relate to accuracy in a paired-associate learning task where participants (N = 73) learned consistent object-location associations over eight trials consisting of pre-trial fixation, encoding, delay, and retrieval epochs. In order to examine how within-subject changes and between-subject changes in ocular metrics related to accuracy, we mean centered individual metric values on each trial based on within-person and across-subject means for each epoch. Within-participant variation in EBR was positively related to accuracy in both encoding and delay epochs: faster EBR within the individual predicted better retrieval. Differences in EBR across participants was negatively related to accuracy in the encoding epoch and in early trials of the pre-trial fixation: faster EBR, relative to other subjects, predicted poorer retrieval. Visual scanning behavior in pre-trial fixation and delay epochs was also positively related to accuracy in early trials: more scanning predicted better retrieval. We found no relationship between pupil diameter and accuracy. These results provide novel evidence supporting the utility of ocular metrics in illuminating cognitive and neurobiological mechanisms of paired-associate learning.
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Effects of Transcranial Ultrasound Stimulation on Trigeminal Blink Reflex Excitability. Brain Sci 2021; 11:brainsci11050645. [PMID: 34063492 PMCID: PMC8156436 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci11050645] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2021] [Revised: 05/05/2021] [Accepted: 05/12/2021] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Recent evidence indicates that transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS) modulates sensorimotor cortex excitability. However, no study has assessed possible TUS effects on the excitability of deeper brain areas, such as the brainstem. In this study, we investigated whether TUS delivered on the substantia nigra, superior colliculus, and nucleus raphe magnus modulates the excitability of trigeminal blink reflex, a reliable neurophysiological technique to assess brainstem functions in humans. The recovery cycle of the trigeminal blink reflex (interstimulus intervals of 250 and 500 ms) was tested before (T0), and 3 (T1) and 30 min (T2) after TUS. The effects of substantia nigra-TUS, superior colliculus-TUS, nucleus raphe magnus-TUS and sham-TUS were assessed in separate and randomized sessions. In the superior colliculus-TUS session, the conditioned R2 area increased at T1 compared with T0, while T2 and T0 values did not differ. Results were independent of the interstimulus intervals tested and were not related to trigeminal blink reflex baseline (T0) excitability. Conversely, the conditioned R2 area was comparable at T0, T1, and T2 in the nucleus raphe magnus-TUS and substantia nigra-TUS sessions. Our findings demonstrate that the excitability of brainstem circuits, as evaluated by testing the recovery cycle of the trigeminal blink reflex, can be increased by TUS. This result may reflect the modulation of inhibitory interneurons within the superior colliculus.
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Girard B, Davoudi O, Tatry M, Tassart M. [Secondary blepharospasm, analysis and pathophysiology of blepharospasm. French translation of the article]. J Fr Ophtalmol 2021; 44:151-162. [PMID: 33431190 DOI: 10.1016/j.jfo.2020.06.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2020] [Revised: 06/03/2020] [Accepted: 06/05/2020] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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PURPOSE To localize the brain structures involved in blepharospasm. MATERIALS AND METHODS This is a retrospective consecutive series of brain MRI's of patients with secondary blepharospasm whose immediate past medical history included cerebrovascular accident or head trauma. RESULTS Six patients, including 4 with CVA with ischemic or hemorrhagic lesions of the thalamus and caudate nuclei and 2 with head trauma with contusive sequellae to the tectal plate and frontal cortical and cerebellar atrophy. CONCLUSION According to the literature, brain lesions associated with blepharospasm involve mainly the thalamus, head of the caudate nucleus, corpus striatum, globus pallidus, internal capsule, cerebral cortex and cerebellum. This study demonstrates that blepharospasm is associated with a lesion of a complex neural network - cortex-thalamus-globus pallidus-cortex - and does not correspond to a single, unique lesion. This network is connected with ascending and descending sensory-motor pathways and motor nuclei.
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- B Girard
- Service d'ophtalmologie de l'hôpital Tenon, Sorbonne université, AP-HP, 4, rue de la Chine, 75020 Paris, France.
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- Service d'ophtalmologie de l'hôpital Tenon, AP-HP, Paris, France; Service d'ophtalmologie de l'Hôpital Tenon, APHP, université de Clermont-Ferrand, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Service d'ophtalmologie de l'hôpital Tenon, Sorbonne université, AP-HP, 4, rue de la Chine, 75020 Paris, France
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- Service de radiologie de l'hôpital Tenon, GHU Sorbonne université, AP-HP, Paris, France
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Secondary blepharospasm, analysis and pathophysiology of blepharospasm. J Fr Ophtalmol 2020; 44:e1-e12. [PMID: 33349487 DOI: 10.1016/j.jfo.2020.11.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2020] [Revised: 10/13/2020] [Accepted: 11/17/2020] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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PURPOSE To localize the brain structures involved in blepharospasm. MATERIALS AND METHODS This is a retrospective consecutive series of brain MRI's of patients with secondary blepharospasm whose immediate past medical history included cerebrovascular accident or head trauma. RESULTS Six patients, including 4 with CVA with ischemic or hemorrhagic lesions of the thalamus and caudate nuclei and 2 with head trauma with contusive sequellae to the tectal plate and frontal cortical and cerebellar atrophy. CONCLUSION According to the literature, brain lesions associated with blepharospasm involve mainly the thalamus, head of the caudate nucleus, corpus striatum, globus pallidus, internal capsule, cerebral cortex and cerebellum. This study demonstrates that blepharospasm is associated with a lesion of a complex neural network - cortex-thalamus-globus pallidus-cortex - and does not correspond to a single, unique lesion. This network is connected with ascending and descending sensory-motor pathways and motor nuclei.
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Paparella G, Di Stefano G, Fasolino A, Di Pietro G, Colella D, Truini A, Cruccu G, Berardelli A, Bologna M. Painful stimulation increases spontaneous blink rate in healthy subjects. Sci Rep 2020; 10:20014. [PMID: 33203984 PMCID: PMC7672065 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-76804-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2020] [Accepted: 10/05/2020] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Spontaneous blink rate is considered a biomarker of central dopaminergic activity. Recent evidence suggests that the central dopaminergic system plays a role in nociception. In the present study, we aimed to investigate whether pain modulates spontaneous blink rate in healthy subjects. We enrolled 15 participants. Spontaneous blink rate was quantified with an optoelectronic system before and after: (1) a painful laser stimulation, and (2) an acoustic startling stimulation. In control experiments, we investigated whether laser stimulation effects depended on stimulation intensity and whether laser stimulation induced any changes in the blink reflex recovery cycle. Finally, we investigated any relationship between spontaneous blink rate modification and pain modulation effect during the cold pressor test. Laser, but not acoustic, stimulation increased spontaneous blink rate. This effect was independent of stimulation intensity and negatively correlated with pain perception. No changes in trigeminal-facial reflex circuit excitability were elicited by laser stimulation. The cold pressor test also induced an increased spontaneous blink rate. Our study provides evidence on the role of dopamine in nociception and suggests that dopaminergic activity may be involved in pain modulation. These findings lay the groundwork for further investigations in patients with pathological conditions characterized by dopaminergic deficit and pain.
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- Department of Human Neurosciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale dell'Università, 30, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Human Neurosciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale dell'Università, 30, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Human Neurosciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale dell'Università, 30, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Human Neurosciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale dell'Università, 30, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Human Neurosciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale dell'Università, 30, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Human Neurosciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale dell'Università, 30, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- IRCCS Neuromed, Pozzilli, IS, Italy. .,Department of Human Neurosciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale dell'Università, 30, 00185, Rome, Italy.
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- IRCCS Neuromed, Pozzilli, IS, Italy.,Department of Human Neurosciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale dell'Università, 30, 00185, Rome, Italy
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Nguyen P, Kelly D, Glickman A, Argaw S, Shelton E, Peterson DA, Berman BD. Abnormal Neural Responses During Reflexive Blinking in Blepharospasm: An Event-Related Functional MRI Study. Mov Disord 2020; 35:1173-1180. [PMID: 32250472 DOI: 10.1002/mds.28042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2019] [Revised: 03/06/2020] [Accepted: 03/10/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The neurophysiological disruptions underlying blepharospasm, a disabling movement disorder characterized by increased blinking and involuntary muscle spasms of the eyelid, remain poorly understood. OBJECTIVE To investigate the neural substrates underlying reflexive blinking in blepharospasm patients compared to healthy controls using simultaneous functional MRI and surface electromyography. METHODS Fifteen blepharospasm patients and 15 healthy controls were recruited. Randomly timed air puffs to the left eye were used to induce reflexive eye blinks during two 8-minute functional MRI scans. Continuous surface electromyography and video recordings were used to monitor blink responses. Imaging data were analyzed using an event-related design. RESULTS Fourteen blepharospasm patients (10 female; 61.6 ± 8.0 years) and 15 controls (11 female; 60.9 ± 5.5 years) were included in the final analysis. Reflexive eye blinks in controls were associated with activation of the right hippocampus and in patients with activation of the left caudate nucleus. Reflexive blinks in blepharospasm patients showed increased activation in the right postcentral gyrus and precuneus, left precentral gyrus, and left occipital cortex compared to controls. Dystonia severity negatively correlated with activity in the left occipital cortex, and disease duration negatively correlated with reflexive-blink activity in the cerebellum. CONCLUSIONS Reflexive blinking in blepharospasm is associated with increased activation in the caudate nucleus and sensorimotor cortices, suggesting a loss of inhibition within the sensorimotor corticobasal ganglia network. The association between decreasing neural response during reflexive blinking in the cerebellum with disease duration suggests an adaptive role. © 2020 International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society.
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- Phuong Nguyen
- School of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, USA
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- School of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, USA
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- School of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, USA
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- School of Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, USA
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- Institute of Neural Computation, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, USA.,Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute of Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, USA
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Blinking is one of the motor acts performed more frequently by healthy human subjects. It involves the reciprocal action of at least two muscles: the orbicularis oculi shows a brief phasic activation while the levator palpebrae shows transient inhibition. In clinical practice, noninvasive recording of the orbicularis oculi activity is sufficient to obtain useful information for electrodiagnostic testing. Blinking can be spontaneous, voluntary, or reflex. Although the analysis of spontaneous blinks can already furnish interesting data, most studies are based on reflex blinking. This article is a review of some of the alterations that can be observed in blinking, focusing in four patterns of abnormality that can be distinguished in the blink reflex: (1) afferent versus efferent, which allows characterization of trigeminal or facial lesions; (2) peripheral versus central, which distinguishes alterations in nerve conduction from those involving synaptic delay; (3) upper versus lower brainstem lesions, which indicates the lesions involving specific circuits for trigeminal and somatosensory blink reflexes; and (4) asymmetric abnormal excitability pattern, which shows a unilateral alteration in the descending control of excitability in brainstem circuits. The blink reflex excitability recovery curve to paired stimuli may provide information about other modulatory inputs to trigemino-facial circuits, such as those proposed for the connection between basal ganglia and trigeminal neurons. Finally, prepulse inhibition of blink reflex reflects the motor surrogate of subcortical gating on sensory volleys, which is still another window by which electrodiagnosis can document motor control mechanisms and their abnormalities in neurologic diseases.
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Srivastava A, Garg D. Blink and Don′t Miss it: The Role of Blink Reflex in Neurodegenerative Disorders. Neurol India 2020; 68:76-77. [DOI: 10.4103/0028-3886.279681] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Badler JB, Watamaniuk SNJ, Heinen SJ. A common mechanism modulates saccade timing during pursuit and fixation. J Neurophysiol 2019; 122:1981-1988. [PMID: 31533016 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00198.2019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Smooth pursuit is punctuated by catch-up saccades, which are thought to automatically correct sensory errors in retinal position and velocity. Recent studies have shown that the timing of catch-up saccades is susceptible to cognitive modulation, as is the timing of fixational microsaccades. Are the timing of catchup and microsaccades thus modulated by the same mechanism? Here, we test directly whether pursuit catch-up saccades and fixational microsaccades exhibit the same temporal pattern of task-related bursts and subsidence. Observers pursued a linear array of 15 alphanumeric characters that translated across the screen and simultaneously performed a character identification task on it. At a fixed time, a cue briefly surrounded the central element to specify it as the pursuit target. After a random delay, a probe (E or 3) appeared briefly at a randomly selected character location, and observers identified it. For comparison, a fixation condition was also tested with trial parameters identical to the pursuit condition, except that the array remained stationary. We found that during both pursuit and fixation tasks, saccades paused after the cue and then rebounded as expected but also subsided in anticipation of the task. The time courses of the reactive pause, rebound, and anticipatory subsidence were similar, and idiosyncratic subject behavior was consistent across pursuit and fixation. The results provide evidence for a common mechanism of saccade control during pursuit and fixation, which is predictive as well as reactive and has an identifiable temporal signature in individual observers.NEW & NOTEWORTHY During natural scene viewing, voluntary saccades reorient the fovea to different locations for high-acuity viewing. Less is known about small "microsaccades" that also occur when fixating stationary objects and "catch-up saccades" that occur during smooth pursuit of moving objects. We provide evidence that microsaccade and catch-up saccade frequencies are generally modulated by the same mechanism. Furthermore, on a finer time scale the mechanism operates differently in different observers, suggesting that neural saccade generators are individually unique.
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- Jeremy B Badler
- Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco, California
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- Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco, California.,Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio
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- Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco, California
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Kumru H, Kofler M, Valls-Sole J, Vidal J. Brainstem reflex excitability after high-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in healthy and spinal cord injury subjects. Brain Res Bull 2019; 147:86-91. [PMID: 30769128 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2019.02.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2018] [Revised: 01/18/2019] [Accepted: 02/06/2019] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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BACKGROUND The excitability of brainstem interneuronal circuits is partly under control from descending inputs. Since high frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) modulates cortical output, we hypothesized that it will also modulate brainstem functions. Such modulation may be different in healthy subjects than in subjects with spinal cord injury (SCI), submitted to an altered integration of body afferent inputs. METHODS In this randomized, double-blind, sham-controlled trial, we recruited 22 subjects with SCI assigned to either real (n = 11) or sham (n = 11) rTMS and nine healthy subjects, who served as control group, receiving both real (at 20 Hz, with double cone coil over vertex) and sham rTMS separated by at least one week. We recorded the blink reflex (BR) to supraorbital nerve (SON) electrical stimulation and its modification by another conditioning SON, to study the BR excitability recovery (BRER), or a prepulse electrical stimulus to the right index finger, to study the BR inhibition by prepulse (BRIP). Subjects were examined immediately before and after either sham or real rTMS. RESULTS Real but not sham rTMS significantly reduced the area of the BR R2 response in both SCI and healthy subjects. There were no changes in BRER and BRIP. CONCLUSION rTMS over the vertex modulates brainstem reflexes with no significant differences between SCI and healthy subjects.
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- Hatice Kumru
- Institut Guttmann, Institut Universitari de Neurorehabilitació adscrit a la UAB, 089M6, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain; Univ Autonoma de Barcelona, 08M93, Bellaterra, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain; Fundació Institut d'Investigació en Ciències de la Salut Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain.
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- Institut Guttmann, Institut Universitari de Neurorehabilitació adscrit a la UAB, 089M6, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut Guttmann, Institut Universitari de Neurorehabilitació adscrit a la UAB, 089M6, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain; Univ Autonoma de Barcelona, 08M93, Bellaterra, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain; Fundació Institut d'Investigació en Ciències de la Salut Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain
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Wu CC, Cao B, Dali V, Gagliardi C, Barthelemy OJ, Salazar RD, Pomplun M, Cronin-Golomb A, Yazdanbakhsh A. Eye movement control during visual pursuit in Parkinson's disease. PeerJ 2018; 6:e5442. [PMID: 30155357 PMCID: PMC6109371 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.5442] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2018] [Accepted: 07/24/2018] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Prior studies of oculomotor function in Parkinson's disease (PD) have either focused on saccades without considering smooth pursuit, or tested smooth pursuit while excluding saccades. The present study investigated the control of saccadic eye movements during pursuit tasksand assessed the quality of binocular coordinationas potential sensitive markers of PD. METHODS Observers fixated on a central cross while a target moved toward it. Once the target reached the fixation cross, observers began to pursue the moving target. To further investigate binocular coordination, the moving target was presented on both eyes (binocular condition), or on one eye only (dichoptic condition). RESULTS The PD group made more saccades than age-matched normal control adults (NC) both during fixation and pursuit. The difference between left and right gaze positions increased over time during the pursuit period for PD but not for NC. The findings were not related to age, as NC and young-adult control group (YC) performed similarly on most of the eye movement measures, and were not correlated with classical measures of PD severity (e.g., Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS) score). DISCUSSION Our results suggest that PD may be associated with impairment not only in saccade inhibition, but also in binocular coordination during pursuit, and these aspects of dysfunction may be useful in PD diagnosis or tracking of disease course.
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- Chia-Chien Wu
- Center for Computational Neuroscience and Neural Technology, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Center for Computational Neuroscience and Neural Technology, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Center for Computational Neuroscience and Neural Technology, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts at Boston, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Center for Computational Neuroscience and Neural Technology, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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Disinhibited Blink Reflex Recovery Is Related to Lateral Trunk Flexion in Parkinson Disease. J Clin Neurophysiol 2018; 35:346-350. [DOI: 10.1097/wnp.0000000000000457] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Kohsaka M, Oeda T, Umemura A, Tomita S, Park K, Yamamoto K, Sugiyama H, Sawada H. Oxybuprocaine for apraxia of lid opening in Parkinson's disease: A placebo-controlled pilot trial. Mov Disord 2017; 33:494-495. [PMID: 29168901 DOI: 10.1002/mds.27243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2017] [Revised: 10/11/2017] [Accepted: 10/20/2017] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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- Masayuki Kohsaka
- Clinical Research Center and Department of Neurology, National Hospital Organization Utano Hospital, Kyoto, Japan
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- Clinical Research Center and Department of Neurology, National Hospital Organization Utano Hospital, Kyoto, Japan
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- Clinical Research Center and Department of Neurology, National Hospital Organization Utano Hospital, Kyoto, Japan
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- Clinical Research Center and Department of Neurology, National Hospital Organization Utano Hospital, Kyoto, Japan
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- Clinical Research Center and Department of Neurology, National Hospital Organization Utano Hospital, Kyoto, Japan
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- Clinical Research Center and Department of Neurology, National Hospital Organization Utano Hospital, Kyoto, Japan
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- Clinical Research Center and Department of Neurology, National Hospital Organization Utano Hospital, Kyoto, Japan
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- Clinical Research Center and Department of Neurology, National Hospital Organization Utano Hospital, Kyoto, Japan
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Nakano T, Kuriyama C. Transient heart rate acceleration in association with spontaneous eyeblinks. Int J Psychophysiol 2017; 121:56-62. [PMID: 28890182 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2017.09.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2017] [Revised: 08/23/2017] [Accepted: 09/06/2017] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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The reason why people spontaneously blink several times more frequently than is necessary for ocular lubrication has been a mystery. However, spontaneous eyeblinks selectively occur at attentional breakpoints of information processing, suggesting the involvement of spontaneous eyeblink in attentional disengagement from external stimuli. Physiological activity also changes considerably according to attention state. Heart rate decreases when attention is directed at stimuli, while it increases as attention is released. Therefore, we examined the temporal dynamics between spontaneous eyeblinks and instantaneous heart rate under natural circumstances. Our results showed that the heart rate momentarily increases after each spontaneous eyeblink while participants were freely viewing a movie or listening to a story. This phenomenon was consistently observed even when the participants were placed in a dark room. The skin conductance level on the fingers also increased after each spontaneous eyeblink, suggesting that the blink-related heart rate acceleration was induced by an increase in sympathetic nervous system activity. In contrast, no heart rate acceleration was observed to accompany spontaneous eyeblinks at rest or volitional eyeblinks. These results demonstrated that the generation of spontaneous eyeblinks and the activity of the autonomic nervous system are correlated under attentional influence of natural circumstances.
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- Tamami Nakano
- Dynamic Brain Network Laboratory, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Japan; Department of Brain Physiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan; Center for Information and Neural Networks, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Osaka 565-0871, Japan; PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Tokyo, Japan.
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- Dynamic Brain Network Laboratory, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Japan
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Neurophysiological studies on atypical parkinsonian syndromes. Parkinsonism Relat Disord 2017; 42:12-21. [DOI: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2017.06.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2017] [Revised: 06/14/2017] [Accepted: 06/24/2017] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Caligiuri ME, Arabia G, Barbagallo G, Lupo A, Morelli M, Nisticò R, Novellino F, Quattrone A, Salsone M, Vescio B, Cherubini A, Quattrone A. Structural connectivity differences in essential tremor with and without resting tremor. J Neurol 2017; 264:1865-1874. [DOI: 10.1007/s00415-017-8553-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2017] [Revised: 06/19/2017] [Accepted: 06/20/2017] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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McDiarmid TA, Bernardos AC, Rankin CH. Habituation is altered in neuropsychiatric disorders-A comprehensive review with recommendations for experimental design and analysis. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2017; 80:286-305. [PMID: 28579490 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2017.05.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2016] [Accepted: 05/29/2017] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Abnormalities in the simplest form of learning, habituation, have been reported in a variety of neuropsychiatric disorders as etiologically diverse as Autism Spectrum Disorder, Fragile X syndrome, Schizophrenia, Parkinson's Disease, Huntington's Disease, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Tourette's Syndrome, and Migraine. Here we provide the first comprehensive review of what is known about alterations in this form of non-associative learning in each disorder. Across several disorders, abnormal habituation is predictive of symptom severity, highlighting the clinical significance of habituation and its importance to normal cognitive function. Abnormal habituation is discussed within the greater framework of learning theory and how it may relate to disease phenotype either as a cause, symptom, or therapy. Important considerations for the design and interpretation of habituation experiments are outlined with the hope that these will aid both clinicians and basic researchers investigating how this simple form of learning is altered in disease.
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- Troy A McDiarmid
- Graduate Program in Neuroscience, University of British Columbia, 2215 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z3, Canada; Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, University of British Columbia, Rm F221, 2211 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 2B5, Canada
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- Graduate Program in Neuroscience, University of British Columbia, 2215 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z3, Canada; Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, University of British Columbia, Rm F221, 2211 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 2B5, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, 2136 West Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z4, Canada; Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, University of British Columbia, Rm F221, 2211 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 2B5, Canada.
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Lamusuo S, Hirvonen J, Lindholm P, Martikainen IK, Hagelberg N, Parkkola R, Taiminen T, Hietala J, Helin S, Virtanen A, Pertovaara A, Jääskeläinen S. Neurotransmitters behind pain relief with transcranial magnetic stimulation - positron emission tomography evidence for release of endogenous opioids. Eur J Pain 2017; 21:1505-1515. [DOI: 10.1002/ejp.1052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/21/2017] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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- S. Lamusuo
- Department of Neurology; Turku University Hospital; Finland
- Division of Clinical Neuroscience; University of Turku; Finland
- Turku PET Centre; University of Turku; Finland
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- Turku PET Centre; University of Turku; Finland
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- Department of Neurology; Turku University Hospital; Finland
- Department of Clinical Neurophysiology; Turku University Hospital and University of Turku; Finland
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- Department of Physiology; Turku University Hospital and University of Turku; Finland
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- Pain Clinic; Turku University Hospital and University of Turku; Finland
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- Turku PET Centre; University of Turku; Finland
- Department of Radiology; Turku University Hospital and University of Turku; Finland
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- Department of Psychiatry; Turku University Hospital and University of Turku; Finland
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- Turku PET Centre; University of Turku; Finland
- Department of Psychiatry; Turku University Hospital and University of Turku; Finland
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- Turku PET Centre; University of Turku; Finland
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- Department of Clinical Neurophysiology; Turku University Hospital and University of Turku; Finland
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- Department of Physiology; Faculty of Medicine; University of Helsinki; Finland
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- Department of Clinical Neurophysiology; Turku University Hospital and University of Turku; Finland
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Cengiz B, Ercan MB, İskender M, Kuruoğlu HR. Brainstem reflex excitability changes in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Muscle Nerve 2017; 56:925-929. [DOI: 10.1002/mus.25580] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2016] [Revised: 01/09/2017] [Accepted: 01/11/2017] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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- Bülent Cengiz
- Department of NeurologyDivision of Clinical Neurophysiology, Gazi University Faculty of MedicineBeşevler06500 Ankara Turkey
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- Department of NeurologyDivision of Clinical Neurophysiology, Gazi University Faculty of MedicineBeşevler06500 Ankara Turkey
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- Department of NeurologyDivision of Clinical Neurophysiology, Gazi University Faculty of MedicineBeşevler06500 Ankara Turkey
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- Department of NeurologyDivision of Clinical Neurophysiology, Gazi University Faculty of MedicineBeşevler06500 Ankara Turkey
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Peterson DA, Sejnowski TJ. A Dynamic Circuit Hypothesis for the Pathogenesis of Blepharospasm. Front Comput Neurosci 2017; 11:11. [PMID: 28326032 PMCID: PMC5340098 DOI: 10.3389/fncom.2017.00011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2016] [Accepted: 02/15/2017] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Blepharospasm (sometimes called “benign essential blepharospasm,” BEB) is one of the most common focal dystonias. It involves involuntary eyelid spasms, eye closure, and increased blinking. Despite the success of botulinum toxin injections and, in some cases, pharmacologic or surgical interventions, BEB treatments are not completely efficacious and only symptomatic. We could develop principled strategies for preventing and reversing the disease if we knew the pathogenesis of primary BEB. The objective of this study was to develop a conceptual framework and dynamic circuit hypothesis for the pathogenesis of BEB. The framework extends our overarching theory for the multifactorial pathogenesis of focal dystonias (Peterson et al., 2010) to incorporate a two-hit rodent model specifically of BEB (Schicatano et al., 1997). We incorporate in the framework three features critical to cranial motor control: (1) the joint influence of motor cortical regions and direct descending projections from one of the basal ganglia output nuclei, the substantia nigra pars reticulata, on brainstem motor nuclei, (2) nested loops composed of the trigeminal blink reflex arc and the long sensorimotor loop from trigeminal nucleus through thalamus to somatosensory cortex back through basal ganglia to the same brainstem nuclei modulating the reflex arc, and (3) abnormalities in the basal ganglia dopamine system that provide a sensorimotor learning substrate which, when combined with patterns of increased blinking, leads to abnormal sensorimotor mappings manifest as BEB. The framework explains experimental data on the trigeminal reflex blink excitability (TRBE) from Schicatano et al. and makes predictions that can be tested in new experimental animal models based on emerging genetics in dystonia, including the recently characterized striatal-specific D1R dopamine transduction alterations caused by the GNAL mutation. More broadly, the model will provide a guide for future efforts to mechanistically link multiple factors in the pathogenesis of BEB and facilitate simulations of how exogenous manipulations of the pathogenic factors could ultimately be used to prevent and reverse the disorder.
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- David A Peterson
- Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological StudiesSan Diego, CA, USA; Institute for Neural Computation, University of California, San DiegoSan Diego, CA, USA
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- Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological StudiesSan Diego, CA, USA; Institute for Neural Computation, University of California, San DiegoSan Diego, CA, USA
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Moretti R, Signori R. Neural Correlates for Apathy: Frontal-Prefrontal and Parietal Cortical- Subcortical Circuits. Front Aging Neurosci 2016; 8:289. [PMID: 28018207 PMCID: PMC5145860 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2016.00289] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2016] [Accepted: 11/15/2016] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Apathy is an uncertain nosographical entity, which includes reduced motivation, abulia, decreased empathy, and lack of emotional involvement; it is an important and heavy-burden clinical condition which strongly impacts in everyday life events, affects the common daily living abilities, reduced the inner goal directed behavior, and gives the heaviest burden on caregivers. Is a quite common comorbidity of many neurological disease, However, there is no definite consensus on the role of apathy in clinical practice, no definite data on anatomical circuits involved in its development, and no definite instrument to detect it at bedside. As a general observation, the occurrence of apathy is connected to damage of prefrontal cortex (PFC) and basal ganglia; “emotional affective” apathy may be related to the orbitomedial PFC and ventral striatum; “cognitive apathy” may be associated with dysfunction of lateral PFC and dorsal caudate nuclei; deficit of “autoactivation” may be due to bilateral lesions of the internal portion of globus pallidus, bilateral paramedian thalamic lesions, or the dorsomedial portion of PFC. On the other hand, apathy severity has been connected to neurofibrillary tangles density in the anterior cingulate gyrus and to gray matter atrophy in the anterior cingulate (ACC) and in the left medial frontal cortex, confirmed by functional imaging studies. These neural networks are linked to projects, judjing and planning, execution and selection common actions, and through the basolateral amygdala and nucleus accumbens projects to the frontostriatal and to the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. Therefore, an alteration of these circuitry caused a lack of insight, a reduction of decision-making strategies, and a reduced speedness in action decision, major responsible for apathy. Emergent role concerns also the parietal cortex, with its direct action motivation control. We will discuss the importance of these circuits in different pathologies, degenerative or vascular, acute or chronic.
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- Rita Moretti
- Neurology Clinic, Department of Medicine, Surgery and Health Sciences, University of Trieste Trieste, Italy
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- Neurology Clinic, Department of Medicine, Surgery and Health Sciences, University of Trieste Trieste, Italy
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Lozeron P, Poujois A, Richard A, Masmoudi S, Meppiel E, Woimant F, Kubis N. Contribution of TMS and rTMS in the Understanding of the Pathophysiology and in the Treatment of Dystonia. Front Neural Circuits 2016; 10:90. [PMID: 27891079 PMCID: PMC5102895 DOI: 10.3389/fncir.2016.00090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2016] [Accepted: 10/24/2016] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Dystonias represent a heterogeneous group of movement disorders responsible for sustained muscle contraction, abnormal postures, and muscle twists. It can affect focal or segmental body parts or be generalized. Primary dystonia is the most common form of dystonia but it can also be secondary to metabolic or structural dysfunction, the consequence of a drug's side-effect or of genetic origin. The pathophysiology is still not elucidated. Based on lesion studies, dystonia has been regarded as a pure motor dysfunction of the basal ganglia loop. However, basal ganglia lesions do not consistently produce dystonia and lesions outside basal ganglia can lead to dystonia; mild sensory abnormalities have been reported in the dystonic limb and imaging studies have shown involvement of multiple other brain regions including the cerebellum and the cerebral motor, premotor and sensorimotor cortices. Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a non-invasive technique of brain stimulation with a magnetic field applied over the cortex allowing investigation of cortical excitability. Hyperexcitability of contralateral motor cortex has been suggested to be the trigger of focal dystonia. High or low frequency repetitive TMS (rTMS) can induce excitatory or inhibitory lasting effects beyond the time of stimulation and protocols have been developed having either a positive or a negative effect on cortical excitability and associated with prevention of cell death, γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) interneurons mediated inhibition and brain-derived neurotrophic factor modulation. rTMS studies as a therapeutic strategy of dystonia have been conducted to modulate the cerebral areas involved in the disease. Especially, when applied on the contralateral (pre)-motor cortex or supplementary motor area of brains of small cohorts of dystonic patients, rTMS has shown a beneficial transient clinical effect in association with restrained motor cortex excitability. TMS is currently a valuable tool to improve our understanding of the pathophysiology of dystonia but large controlled studies using sham stimulation are still necessary to delineate the place of rTMS in the therapeutic strategy of dystonia. In this review, we will focus successively on the use of TMS as a tool to better understand pathophysiology, and the use of rTMS as a therapeutic strategy.
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- Pierre Lozeron
- Service de Physiologie Clinique-Explorations Fonctionnelles, AP-HP, Hôpital LariboisièreParis, France; INSERM UMR965Paris, France; Sorbonne Paris Cité - Université Paris DiderotParis, France
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- Service de Neurologie, AP-HP, Hôpital LariboisièreParis, France; Centre de Référence National de la Maladie de Wilson, Hôpital LariboisièreParis, France
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- Service de Physiologie Clinique-Explorations Fonctionnelles, AP-HP, Hôpital LariboisièreParis, France; Sorbonne Paris Cité - Université Paris DiderotParis, France
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- Service de Physiologie Clinique-Explorations Fonctionnelles, AP-HP, Hôpital Lariboisière Paris, France
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- Service de Physiologie Clinique-Explorations Fonctionnelles, AP-HP, Hôpital LariboisièreParis, France; Sorbonne Paris Cité - Université Paris DiderotParis, France
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- Service de Neurologie, AP-HP, Hôpital LariboisièreParis, France; Centre de Référence National de la Maladie de Wilson, Hôpital LariboisièreParis, France
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- Service de Physiologie Clinique-Explorations Fonctionnelles, AP-HP, Hôpital LariboisièreParis, France; INSERM UMR965Paris, France; Sorbonne Paris Cité - Université Paris DiderotParis, France
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Diagnostic value of blink reflex in multisystem atrophy, progressive supranuclear palsy and Parkinson disease. Neurol Neurochir Pol 2016; 50:336-41. [PMID: 27591058 DOI: 10.1016/j.pjnns.2016.06.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2016] [Revised: 05/18/2016] [Accepted: 06/14/2016] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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UNLABELLED Abnormal blink reflex (BR) is a result of reticular brainstem pathways dysfunction and seems to be one of the features of brain degenerative disorders. The aim of the study was to estimate the diagnostic value of blink reflex in neurodegenerative diseases such as: multisystem atrophy (MSA), progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) and Parkinson disease (PD). Material consisted of 99 patients with clinically probable MSA (51), PSP (28) and PD (20). MSA patients were divided into two subgroups, with dominant cerebellar (MSA-C) and parkinsonian signs (MSA-P). The mean age of patients was 64.9 years (47-79 years); males - 55.3%. Blink reflex was obtained in a typical way. RESULTS The significant differences in mean values of blink reflex latencies between PD and other subgroups (MSA-P, MSA-C, PSP) were found, but all of them were in normal range. In individual patients with PD and PSP (50% and 18%, respectively) delayed R2 latencies were recorded. CONCLUSIONS The most frequently abnormal blink reflexes, comparing the MSA, PSP and PD groups, were present in PD patients. We postulate that this may be explained by pathological influence of nigrostriatal pathway on the circuit linking the basal ganglia, cerebellum and brainstem.
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Santarcangelo EL, Briscese L, Capitani S, Orsini P, Varanini M, Rossi B, Carboncini MC. Blink reflex in subjects with different hypnotizability: New findings for an old debate. Physiol Behav 2016; 163:288-293. [DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2016.05.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2016] [Revised: 05/11/2016] [Accepted: 05/12/2016] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Spontaneous eye blink rate as predictor of dopamine-related cognitive function-A review. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2016; 71:58-82. [PMID: 27555290 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2016.08.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 150] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2016] [Revised: 07/29/2016] [Accepted: 08/16/2016] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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An extensive body of research suggests the spontaneous eye blink rate (EBR) is a non-invasive indirect marker of central dopamine (DA) function, with higher EBR predicting higher DA function. In the present review we provide a comprehensive overview of this literature. We broadly divide the available research in studies that aim to disentangle the dopaminergic underpinnings of EBR, investigate its utility in diagnosis of DA-related disorders and responsivity to drug treatment, and, lastly, investigate EBR as predictor of individual differences in DA-related cognitive performance. We conclude (i) EBR can reflect both DA receptor subtype D1 and D2 activity, although baseline EBR might be most strongly related to the latter, (ii) EBR can predict hypo- and hyperdopaminergic activity as well as normalization of this activity following treatment, and (iii) EBR can reliably predict individual differences in performance on many cognitive tasks, in particular those related to reward-driven behavior and cognitive flexibility. In sum, this review establishes EBR as a useful predictor of DA in a wide variety of contexts.
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Suppa A, Bologna M, Conte A, Berardelli A, Fabbrini G. The effect of L-dopa in Parkinson’s disease as revealed by neurophysiological studies of motor and sensory functions. Expert Rev Neurother 2016; 17:181-192. [DOI: 10.1080/14737175.2016.1219251] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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- Antonio Suppa
- Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, Sapienza University of Rome and Neuromed Institute IRCCS, Pozzilli, Italy
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- Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, Sapienza University of Rome and Neuromed Institute IRCCS, Pozzilli, Italy
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- Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, Sapienza University of Rome and Neuromed Institute IRCCS, Pozzilli, Italy
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- Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, Sapienza University of Rome and Neuromed Institute IRCCS, Pozzilli, Italy
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- Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, Sapienza University of Rome and Neuromed Institute IRCCS, Pozzilli, Italy
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Valls-Sole J, Defazio G. Blepharospasm: Update on Epidemiology, Clinical Aspects, and Pathophysiology. Front Neurol 2016; 7:45. [PMID: 27064462 PMCID: PMC4814756 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2016.00045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2015] [Accepted: 03/14/2016] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Blepharospasm (BSP) is a rather distressing form of focal dystonia. Although many aspects of its pathophysiological mechanisms are already known, we lack fundamental evidence on etiology, prevention, and treatment. To advance in our knowledge, we need to review what is already known in various aspects of the disorder and use these bases to find future lines of interest. Some of the signs observed in BSP are cause, while others are consequence of the disorder. Non-motor symptoms and signs may be a cue for understanding better the disease. Various cerebral sites have been shown to be functionally abnormal in BSP, including the basal ganglia, the cortex, and the cerebellum. However, we still do not know if the dysfunction or structural change affecting these brain regions is cause or consequence of BSP. Further advances in neurophysiology and neuroimaging may eventually clarify the pathophysiological mechanisms implicated. In this manuscript, we aim to update what is known regarding epidemiology, clinical aspects, and pathophysiology of the disorder and speculate on the directions of research worth pursuing in the near future.
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- Josep Valls-Sole
- EMG and Motor Control Section, Neurology Department, Hospital Clinic, University of Barcelona , Barcelona , Spain
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- Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Neurosciences and Sensory Organs, "Aldo Moro" University of Bari , Bari , Italy
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Correlation between Inter-Blink Interval and Episodic Encoding during Movie Watching. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0141242. [PMID: 26529091 PMCID: PMC4631519 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0141242] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2015] [Accepted: 10/06/2015] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Human eye blinking is cognitively suppressed to minimize loss of visual information for important real-world events. Despite the relationship between eye blinking and cognitive state, the effect of eye blinks on cognition in real-world environments has received limited research attention. In this study, we focused on the temporal pattern of inter-eye blink interval (IEBI) during movie watching and investigated its relationship with episodic memory. As a control condition, 24 healthy subjects watched a nature documentary that lacked a specific story line while electroencephalography was performed. Immediately after viewing the movie, the subjects were asked to report its most memorable scene. Four weeks later, subjects were asked to score 32 randomly selected scenes from the movie, based on how much they were able to remember and describe. The results showed that the average IEBI was significantly longer during the movie than in the control condition. In addition, the significant increase in IEBI when watching a movie coincided with the most memorable scenes of the movie. The results suggested that the interesting episodic narrative of the movie attracted the subjects’ visual attention relative to the documentary clip that did not have a story line. In the episodic memory test executed four weeks later, memory performance was significantly positively correlated with IEBI (p<0.001). In summary, IEBI may be a reliable bio-marker of the degree of concentration on naturalistic content that requires visual attention, such as a movie.
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Kandemir M, Gündüz A, Uzun N, Yeni SN, Kızıltan ME. Enhanced blink reflex recovery in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy. Neurosci Lett 2015; 609:7-10. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2015.10.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2015] [Revised: 07/30/2015] [Accepted: 10/08/2015] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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de Natale E, Ginatempo F, Paulus K, Manca A, Mercante B, Pes G, Agnetti V, Tolu E, Deriu F. Paired neurophysiological and clinical study of the brainstem at different stages of Parkinson’s Disease. Clin Neurophysiol 2015; 126:1871-8. [DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2014.12.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2014] [Revised: 12/03/2014] [Accepted: 12/24/2014] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Coşkun T, Kiziltan M, Gündüz A, Delil Ş, Yeni N, Özkara Ç. Blink reflex in progressive myoclonic epilepsies. Seizure 2015; 29:169-73. [PMID: 26076862 DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2015.05.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2015] [Revised: 05/08/2015] [Accepted: 05/09/2015] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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PURPOSE Progressive myoclonic epilepsies (PME) include a heterogeneous group of disorders. The brainstem is involved in these disorders, as demonstrated by neuroimaging and autopsy studies. The blink reflex (BR) is characteristically elicited after supraorbital electrical stimulation. The BR has two components, an ipsilateral R1 and bilateral R2 (R2 and R2c). The central generator of the BR is the brainstem. In this study, we aimed to investigate the functional status of the brainstem using the BR in PME cases with different etiological factors. METHODS We prospectively included 17 patients with a diagnosis of PME (8 male, 47.1%) who were examined between June 2009 and June 2012. For comparison, we included 41 healthy volunteers (18 male 43.9%) who did not have any neurological or systemic diseases. We recorded responses bilaterally over the orbicularis oculi muscles after supraorbital stimulation in all participants. RESULTS The R1 and R2 components of the BR were obtained in all healthy subjects with normal latencies, whereas abnormalities in the R2 and R2c components were observed at significantly higher rates in the PME patients. The mean latencies of the bilateral R2 and R2c components were significantly prolonged, and the amplitudes were diminished in the PME patients. Disease duration and the use of multiple antiepileptic drugs were related to abnormal R2s. CONCLUSION The abnormalities of the R2 and R2c components of the BR confirmed the inhibition of the reticular formation. The findings are probably related to disease processes and partially due to the use of multiple antiepileptic drugs.
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- Tülin Coşkun
- Istanbul University, Cerrahpasa School of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Turkey
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- Istanbul University, Cerrahpasa School of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Turkey
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- Istanbul University, Cerrahpasa School of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Turkey.
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- Istanbul University, Cerrahpasa School of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Turkey
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- Istanbul University, Cerrahpasa School of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Turkey
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- Istanbul University, Cerrahpasa School of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Turkey
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Gruart A, Leal-Campanario R, López-Ramos JC, Delgado-García JM. Functional basis of associative learning and its relationships with long-term potentiation evoked in the involved neural circuits: Lessons from studies in behaving mammals. Neurobiol Learn Mem 2015; 124:3-18. [PMID: 25916668 DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2015.04.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2015] [Revised: 04/14/2015] [Accepted: 04/15/2015] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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While contemporary neuroscience is paying increasing attention to subcellular and molecular events and other intracellular phenomena underlying the acquisition, storage, and retrieval of newly acquired motor and cognitive abilities, parallel attention should be paid to the study of the electrophysiological phenomena taking place at selected cortical and subcortical neuronal and synaptic sites during the precise moment of learning acquisition, extinction, and recall. These in vivo approaches to the study of learning and memory processes will allow the proper integration of the important information collected from in vitro and delayed molecular studies. Here, we summarize studies in behaving mammals carried out in our laboratory during the past ten years on the relationships between experimentally evoked long-term potentiation (LTP) and activity-dependent changes in synaptic strength taking place in hippocampal, prefrontal and related cortical and subcortical circuits during the acquisition of classical eyeblink conditioning or operant learning tasks. These studies suggest that different hippocampal synapses are selectively modified in strength during the acquisition of classical, but not instrumental, learning tasks. In contrast, selected prefrontal and striatum synapses are more directly modified by operant conditioning. These studies also show that besides N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors, many other neurotransmitter, intracellular mediating, and transcription factors participate in these two types of associative learning. Although experimentally evoked LTP seems to prevent the acquisition of classical eyeblink conditioning when induced at selected hippocampal synapses, it proved to be ineffective in preventing the acquisition of operant conditioned tasks when induced at numerous hippocampal, prefrontal, and striatal sites. The differential roles of these cortical structures during these two types of associative learning are discussed, and a diagrammatic representation of their respective functions is presented.
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- Agnès Gruart
- Division of Neurosciences, Pablo de Olavide University, Seville 41013, Spain.
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Kaminer J, Thakur P, Evinger C. Effects of subthalamic deep brain stimulation on blink abnormalities of 6-OHDA lesioned rats. J Neurophysiol 2015; 113:3038-46. [PMID: 25673748 DOI: 10.1152/jn.01072.2014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2014] [Accepted: 02/10/2015] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Parkinson's disease (PD) patients and the 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA) lesioned rat model share blink abnormalities. In view of the evolutionarily conserved organization of blinking, characterization of blink reflex circuits in rodents may elucidate the neural mechanisms of PD reflex abnormalities. We examine the extent of this shared pattern of blink abnormalities by measuring blink reflex excitability, blink reflex plasticity, and spontaneous blinking in 6-OHDA lesioned rats. We also investigate whether 130-Hz subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation (STN DBS) affects blink abnormalities, as it does in PD patients. Like PD patients, 6-OHDA-lesioned rats exhibit reflex blink hyperexcitability, impaired blink plasticity, and a reduced spontaneous blink rate. At 130 Hz, but not 16 Hz, STN DBS eliminates reflex blink hyperexcitability and restores both short- and long-term blink plasticity. Replicating its lack of effect in PD patients, 130-Hz STN DBS does not reinstate a normal temporal pattern or rate to spontaneous blinking in 6-OHDA lesioned rats. These data show that the 6-OHDA lesioned rat is an ideal model system for investigating the neural bases of reflex abnormalities in PD and highlight the complexity of PD's effects on motor control, by showing that dopamine depletion does not affect all blink systems via the same neural mechanisms.
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- Jaime Kaminer
- Program of Integrative Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
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- Program in Neuroscience, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
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- Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York; and SUNY Eye Institute, Syracuse, New York
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Evinger CL. Animal Models of Focal Dystonia. Mov Disord 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-405195-9.00026-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Kaminer J, Thakur P, Evinger C. Frequency matters: beta-band subthalamic nucleus deep-brain stimulation induces Parkinsonian-like blink abnormalities in normal rats. Eur J Neurosci 2014; 40:3237-42. [PMID: 25146113 PMCID: PMC4205166 DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12697] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2014] [Revised: 06/19/2014] [Accepted: 07/18/2014] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The synchronized beta-band oscillations in the basal ganglia-cortical networks in Parkinson's disease (PD) may be responsible for PD motor symptoms or an epiphenomenon of dopamine loss. We investigated the causal role of beta-band activity in PD motor symptoms by testing the effects of beta-frequency subthalamic nucleus deep-brain stimulation (STN DBS) on the blink reflex excitability, amplitude, and plasticity in normal rats. Delivering 16 Hz STN DBS produced the same increase in blink reflex excitability and impairment in blink reflex plasticity in normal rats as occurs in rats with 6-hydroxydopamine lesions and patients with PD. These deficits were not an artifact of STN DBS because, when these normal rats received 130 Hz STN DBS, their blink characteristics were the same as without STN DBS. To demonstrate that the blink reflex disturbances with 16 Hz STN DBS were frequency specific, we tested the same rats with 7 Hz STN DBS, a theta-band frequency typical of dystonia. In contrast to beta stimulation, 7 Hz STN DBS exaggerated the blink reflex plasticity as occurs in focal dystonia. Thus, without destroying dopamine neurons or blocking dopamine receptors, frequency-specific STN DBS can be used to create PD-like or dystonic-like symptoms in a normal rat.
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- Jaime Kaminer
- Program in Integrative Neuroscience. Dept. Psychology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-2500
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- Dept. Neurobiology & Behavior, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-5230
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- Dept. Neurobiology & Behavior, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-5230
- SUNY Eye Institute
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Coppola G, Di Lorenzo C, Bracaglia M, Di Lenola D, Parisi V, Perrotta A, Serrao M, Pierelli F. Lateralized nociceptive blink reflex habituation deficit in episodic cluster headache: Correlations with clinical features. Cephalalgia 2014; 35:600-7. [PMID: 25228682 DOI: 10.1177/0333102414550418] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2014] [Accepted: 08/15/2014] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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BACKGROUND We previously observed impaired habituation mechanisms of the conventional blink reflex (BR) in patients with episodic cluster headache (ECH) during the bout, studying only the affected side. Here, we have studied the nociceptive-specific BR (nBR) both on the affected and non-affected sides, and in relation to clinical features. PARTICIPANTS AND METHODS We recorded nBR in 18 ECH patients during the bout, and in 18 healthy volunteers (HVs). We compared pain threshold, area, and habituation of the nBR, recorded both for the affected and non-affected sides. RESULTS In patients, the pain threshold on the affected side was lower than that of the non-affected side (p = 0.009), and lower than in HVs (p = 0.038). Reflex area was decreased on both sides (p < 0.05) compared with HVs, whereas habituation was significantly impaired only on the affected side (p = 0.025 vs. HVs; p = 0.003 vs. non-affected). The habituation slope was positively correlated with the number of days since the onset of the bout and the daily attack frequency. CONCLUSIONS Our data reflect lateralized pathological variations in craniofacial nociception in ECH patients over the course of the cluster period. We hypothesized that this is due to malfunctioning of mechanisms that regulate hypothalamic activity and descending aminergic controls.
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- Gianluca Coppola
- Department of Neurophysiology of Vision and Neurophthalmology, G.B. Bietti Foundation-IRCCS, Italy
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- Department of Medico-Surgical Sciences and Biotechnologies, "Sapienza" University of Rome Polo Pontino, Italy
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- Department of Medico-Surgical Sciences and Biotechnologies, "Sapienza" University of Rome Polo Pontino, Italy
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- Department of Neurophysiology of Vision and Neurophthalmology, G.B. Bietti Foundation-IRCCS, Italy
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- Department of Medico-Surgical Sciences and Biotechnologies, "Sapienza" University of Rome Polo Pontino, Italy
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Abnormal control of orbicularis oculi reflex excitability in multiple sclerosis. PLoS One 2014; 9:e103897. [PMID: 25083902 PMCID: PMC4118978 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0103897] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2014] [Accepted: 07/07/2014] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Brain lesions in patients with multiple sclerosis may lead to abnormal excitability of brainstem reflex circuits because of impairment of descending control pathways. We hypothesized that such abnormality should show in the analysis of blink reflex responses in the form of asymmetries in response size. The study was done in 20 patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis and 12 matched healthy subjects. We identified first patients with latency abnormalities (AbLat). Then, we analyzed response size by calculating the R2c/R2 ratio to stimulation of either side and the mean area of the R2 responses obtained in the same side. Patients with significantly larger response size with respect to healthy subjects in at least one side were considered to have abnormal response excitability (AbEx). We also examined the blink reflex excitability recovery (BRER) and prepulse inhibition (BRIP) of either side in search for additional indices of asymmetry in response excitability. Neurophysiological data were correlated with MRI-determined brain lesion-load and volume. Eight patients were identified as AbLat (median Expanded Disability Status Scale–EDSS = 2.75) and 7 of them had ponto-medullary lesions. Nine patients were identified as AbEx (EDSS = 1.5) and only 2 of them, who also were AbLat, had ponto-medullary lesions. In AbEx patients, the abnormalities in response size were confined to one side, with a similar tendency in most variables (significantly asymmetric R1 amplitude, BRER index and BRIP percentage). AbEx patients had asymmetric distribution of hemispheral lesions, in contrast with the symmetric pattern observed in AbLat. The brainstem lesion load was significantly lower in AbEx than in AbLat patients (p = 0.04). Asymmetric abnormalities in blink reflex response excitability in patients with multiple sclerosis are associated with lesser disability and lower tissue loss than abnormalities in response latency. Testing response excitability could provide a reliable neurophysiological index of dysfunction in early stages of multiple sclerosis.
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Rahman M, Okamoto K, Thompson R, Bereiter DA. Trigeminal pathways for hypertonic saline- and light-evoked corneal reflexes. Neuroscience 2014; 277:716-23. [PMID: 25086311 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2014.07.052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2014] [Revised: 07/03/2014] [Accepted: 07/04/2014] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Cornea-evoked eyeblinks maintain tear film integrity on the ocular surface in response to dryness and protect the eye from real or potential damage. Eyelid movement following electrical stimulation has been well studied in humans and animals; however, the central neural pathways that mediate protective eyeblinks following natural nociceptive signals are less certain. The aim of this study was to assess the role of the trigeminal subnucleus interpolaris/caudalis (Vi/Vc) transition and subnucleus caudalis/upper cervical cord (Vc/C1) junction regions on orbicularis oculi electromyographic (OOemg) activity evoked by ocular surface application of hypertonic saline or exposure to bright light in urethane anesthetized male rats. The Vi/Vc and Vc/C1 regions are the main sites of termination for trigeminal afferent nerves that supply the ocular surface, while hypertonic saline (saline=0.15-5M) and bright light (light=5k-20klux) selectively activate ocular surface and intraocular trigeminal nerves, respectively, and excite second-order neurons at the Vi/Vc and Vc/C1 regions. Integrated OOemg activity, ipsilateral to the applied stimulus, increased with greater stimulus intensities for both modalities. Lidocaine applied to the ocular surface inhibited OOemg responses to hypertonic saline, but did not alter the response to light. Lidocaine injected into the trigeminal ganglion blocked completely the OOemg responses to hypertonic saline and light indicating a trigeminal afferent origin. Synaptic blockade by cobalt chloride of the Vi/Vc or Vc/C1 region greatly reduced OOemg responses to hypertonic saline and bright light. These data indicate that OOemg activity evoked by natural stimuli known to cause irritation or discomfort in humans depends on a relay in both the Vi/Vc transition and Vc/C1 junction regions.
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- M Rahman
- Department of Diagnostic and Biological Sciences, University of Minnesota School of Dentistry, Moos Tower 18-186, 515 Delaware Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
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- Department of Diagnostic and Biological Sciences, University of Minnesota School of Dentistry, Moos Tower 18-186, 515 Delaware Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Department of Diagnostic and Biological Sciences, University of Minnesota School of Dentistry, Moos Tower 18-186, 515 Delaware Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Department of Diagnostic and Biological Sciences, University of Minnesota School of Dentistry, Moos Tower 18-186, 515 Delaware Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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Péran P, Catani S, Falletta Caravasso C, Nemmi F, Sabatini U, Formisano R. Supplementary Motor Area Activation Is Impaired in Severe Traumatic Brain Injury Parkinsonism. J Neurotrauma 2014; 31:642-8. [DOI: 10.1089/neu.2013.3103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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- Patrice Péran
- INSERM, Imagerie Cérébrale et Handicaps Neurologiques, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
- Université de Toulouse III, UPS, Imagerie Cérébrale et Handicaps Neurologiques, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
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- INSERM, Imagerie Cérébrale et Handicaps Neurologiques, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
- Université de Toulouse III, UPS, Imagerie Cérébrale et Handicaps Neurologiques, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
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Zoetmulder M, Biernat HB, Nikolic M, Korbo L, Jennum PJ. Sensorimotor gating deficits in multiple system atrophy: Comparison with Parkinson's disease and idiopathic REM sleep behavior disorder. Parkinsonism Relat Disord 2014; 20:297-302. [DOI: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2013.11.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2013] [Revised: 10/22/2013] [Accepted: 11/30/2013] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Bologna M, Marsili L, Khan N, Parvez AK, Paparella G, Modugno N, Colosimo C, Fabbrini G, Berardelli A. Blinking in patients with clinically probable multiple system atrophy. Mov Disord 2014; 29:415-20. [DOI: 10.1002/mds.25830] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2013] [Revised: 11/12/2013] [Accepted: 01/06/2014] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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- Department of Neurology and Psychiatry; Sapienza University of Rome; Rome Italy
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- Department of Neurology and Psychiatry; Sapienza University of Rome; Rome Italy
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- Department of Neurology and Psychiatry; Sapienza University of Rome; Rome Italy
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- Department of Neurology and Psychiatry; Sapienza University of Rome; Rome Italy
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- Neuromed Institute IRCCS; Pozzilli (IS)
- Department of Neurology and Psychiatry; Sapienza University of Rome; Rome Italy
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- Neuromed Institute IRCCS; Pozzilli (IS)
- Department of Neurology and Psychiatry; Sapienza University of Rome; Rome Italy
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