Effects of transcranial alternating-current stimulation to secondary motor areas on cortical oscillations in stroke patients

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العنوان: Effects of transcranial alternating-current stimulation to secondary motor areas on cortical oscillations in stroke patients
المؤلفون: Robert Schulz, Marlene Boenstrup, Till R. Schneider, Jan Feldheim, Christian Gerloff, Bastian Cheng, Jonas Misselhorn, Winifried Backhaus, Lutz A. Krawinkel
بيانات النشر: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2019.
سنة النشر: 2019
مصطلحات موضوعية: Supplementary motor area, medicine.diagnostic_test, business.industry, Stimulation, Electroencephalography, medicine.disease, SMA, Coupling (electronics), Premotor cortex, medicine.anatomical_structure, medicine, business, Stroke, Neuroscience, Transcranial alternating current stimulation
الوصف: BackgroundThere is growing evidence that secondary motor areas are relevant for recovery after motor stroke. Communication among brain areas occurs via synchronization of oscillatory activity which can potentially be modulated via transcranial alternating-current stimulation (tACS).HypothesisWe hypothesized that tACS to secondary motor areas of the stroke-lesioned hemisphere leads to modulation of task-related connectivity among primary and secondary motor areas, reflected in metrics of EEG coupling in the frequency domain.MethodsWe applied focal tACS at 1mA peak-to-peak intensity to ipsilesional ventral premotor cortex (PMv) and supplementary motor area (SMA) in chronic stroke patients while they moved their impaired hand. To probe effects of stimulation on cortical oscillations, several task-related EEG-based connectivity metrics (coherence, imaginary coherence, phase-locking value, mutual information) were assessed before and after each stimulation.ResultsOverall, we found significant but weak modulations of the motor network by tACS. Stimulation of PMv reduced task-related coupling between (i) both primary motor cortices (M1) (coherence, −0.0514±0.0665 (mean±SD, active stimulation) vs. 0.0085±0.0888 (sham), p=0.0029) and (ii) between ipsilesional M1 and contralesional PMv (coherence, - 0.0386±0.0703 vs. 0.0226±0.0694, p=0.0283; phase-locking value, −0.0363±0.0581 vs. 0.0036±0.0497, p=0.0097) compared with sham stimulation.ConclusionsIn this exploratory analysis, tACS to the ipsilesional PMv induced a weak decrease of task-related connectivity between ipsilesional M1 and contralesional M1 and PMv. As an excess of interhemispheric coupling is under discussion as maladaptive phenomenon of motor reorganization after stroke (e.g., bimodal balance-recovery model), tACS-induced reduction of coupling might be an interesting approach to assist re-normalization of the post-stroke motor network.
اللغة: English
DOI: 10.1101/529818
URL الوصول: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::e9d9ccf770a4a7ed3a9bca96d11c5b20
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