Pub Date : 2024-11-06DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2024.10.014
Agnese Zazio , Cora Miranda Lanza , Antonietta Stango , Giacomo Guidali , Eleonora Marcantoni , Delia Lucarelli , Serena Meloni , Nadia Bolognini , Roberta Rossi , Marta Bortoletto
Objectives
Patients with borderline personality disorder (pw-BPD) have decreased levels of cognitive empathy, which may be subtended by mirror-like mechanisms in the somatosensory cortices, i.e., the Tactile Mirror System (TaMS). Here, we aimed to shed light on the TaMS and empathic deficits in pw-BPD focusing on connectivity, using transcranial magnetic stimulation and electroencephalography (TMS-EEG).
Methods
After study preregistration, we collected self-report measures of empathic abilities, behavioral performance in a visuo-tactile spatial congruency task investigating TaMS activity, and TMS-evoked potentials (TEPs) from 20 pw-BPD and 20 healthy controls. TMS was delivered over the right primary somatosensory cortex (S1) during touch observation and real touch delivery.
Results
Pw-BPD reported significantly lower levels of cognitive empathy than controls and made significantly more errors in reporting the side of real touches during touch observation. Moreover, pw-BPD presented an altered connectivity pattern from S1-TEPs during touch perception and touch observation, in the last case without differences between human- and object-directed touches.
Conclusions
The results do not support a specific impairment of TaMS in pw-BPD, but reveal significant behavioral and connectivity alterations within the somatosensory network during touch processing.
Significance
The present findings temper the proposed role of the TaMS in BPD, while still highlighting the involvement of somatosensory network alterations.
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Pub Date : 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2024.09.020
Noah S. Philip, Amanda R. Arulpragasam
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Pub Date : 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2024.09.006
Andrew Strohman , Gabriel Isaac , Brighton Payne , Charles Verdonk , Sahib S. Khalsa , Wynn Legon
Objective
The heartbeat evoked potential (HEP) is a brain response time-locked to the heartbeat and a potential marker of interoceptive processing that may be generated in the insula and dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC). Low-intensity focused ultrasound (LIFU) can selectively modulate sub-regions of the insula and dACC to better understand their contributions to the HEP.
Methods
Healthy participants (n = 16) received stereotaxically targeted LIFU to the anterior insula (AI), posterior insula (PI), dACC, or Sham at rest during continuous electroencephalography (EEG) and electrocardiography (ECG) recording on separate days. Primary outcome was HEP amplitudes. Relationships between LIFU pressure and HEP changes and effects of LIFU on heart rate and heart rate variability (HRV) were also explored.
Results
Relative to sham, LIFU to the PI, but not AI or dACC, decreased HEP amplitudes; PI effects were partially explained by increased LIFU pressure. LIFU did not affect heart rate or HRV.
Conclusions
These results demonstrate the ability to modulate HEP amplitudes via non-invasive targeting of key interoceptive brain regions.
Significance
Our findings have implications for the causal role of these areas in bottom-up heart-brain communication that could guide future work investigating the HEP as a marker of interoceptive processing in healthy and clinical populations.
目的:心跳诱发电位(HEP心跳诱发电位(HEP)是一种与心跳时间锁定的大脑反应,也是可能在脑岛和背侧前扣带回皮层(dACC)中产生的感知间处理的潜在标记。低强度聚焦超声(LIFU)可选择性地调节岛叶和dACC的子区域,从而更好地了解它们对HEP的贡献。方法:健康参与者(n = 16)在连续脑电图(EEG)和心电图(ECG)记录期间,分别在前岛叶(AI)、后岛叶(PI)、dACC或静息时接受立体定向LIFU。主要结果是HEP振幅。此外,还探讨了 LIFU 压力与 HEP 变化之间的关系,以及 LIFU 对心率和心率变异性(HRV)的影响:结果:与假性相比,LIFU 对 PI(而非 AI 或 dACC)的影响降低了 HEP 波幅;LIFU 压力的增加部分解释了对 PI 的影响。LIFU 不影响心率或心率变异:这些结果表明,通过对关键的感知间脑区进行非侵入性靶向治疗,能够调节 HEP 波幅:我们的研究结果对这些区域在自下而上的心脑交流中的因果作用具有重要意义,可指导未来研究 HEP 作为健康和临床人群感知间处理标记的工作。
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Pub Date : 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2024.10.015
Yingchun Xu , Ping Jiang , Zixian Zhou , Fangzhou Liu , Yingying Tang , Ling Liu
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Pub Date : 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2024.07.008
Mikael Gian Andrea Izzo , Davide Rossi Sebastiano , Valentina Catanzaro , Ylenia Melillo , Ramona Togni , Elisa Visani , Jacopo Falco , Cecilia Casali , Marco Gemma , Paolo Ferroli , Annamaria Gallone , Daniele Cazzato , Grazia Devigili , Sara Alverà , Paola Lanteri
Objective
We assessed the Transcranial Electrical Stimulation (TES)-induced Corticobulbar-Motor Evoked Potentials (Cb-MEPs) evoked from Orbicularis Oculi (Oc) and Orbicularis Oris (Or) muscles with FCC5h/FCC6h-Mz, C3/C4-Cz and C5/C6/-Cz stimulation, during IntraOperative NeuroMonitoring (IONM) in 30 patients who underwent skull-base surgery.
Methods
before (T0) and after (T1) the surgery, we compared the peak-to-peak amplitudes of Cb-MEPs obtained from TES with C3/C4-Cz, C5/C6-Cz and FCC5h/FCC6h-Mz. Then, we compared the response category (present, absent and peripheral) related to different montages. Finally, we classified the Cb-MEPs data from each patient for concordance with clinical outcome and we assessed the diagnostic measures for Cb-MEPs data obtained from FCC5h/FCC6h-Mz, C3/C4-Cz and C5/C6-Cz TES stimulation.
Results
Both at T0 and T1, FCC5h/FCC6h-Mz stimulation evoked larger Cb-MEPs than C3/C4-Cz, less peripheral responses from direct activation of facial nerve than C5/C6-Cz. FCC5h/FCC6h-Mz stimulation showed the best accuracy and specificity of Cb-MEPs for clinical outcomes.
Conclusions
FCC5h/FCC6h-Mz stimulation showed the best performances for monitoring the facial nerve functioning, maintaining excellent diagnostic measures even at low stimulus voltages.
Significance
We demonstrated that FCC5h/FCC6h-Mz TES montage for Cb-MEPs in IONM has good accuracy in predicting the post-surgery outcome of facial nerve functioning.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-30DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2024.10.013
Seungbeom Seo , Sunmin Kim , Sung-Phil Kim , Jaeho Kim , Suk Yun Kang , Dongil Chung
Objective
Drug-induced parkinsonism (DIP) ranks second to Parkinson’s disease (PD) in causing parkinsonism. Despite sharing similar symptoms, DIP results from exposure to specific medications or substances, underscoring the need for accurate diagnosis. Here, we used resting-state electroencephalography (rsEEG) to investigate neural markers characterizing DIP and PD.
Methods
We conducted a retrospective analysis of rsEEG recordings from 18 DIP patients, 43 de novo PD patients, and 12 healthy controls (HC). After exclusions, data from 15 DIP, 41 PD, and 12 HC participants were analyzed. EEG spectral power and inter-channel coherence were compared across the groups.
Results
Our results demonstrated significant differences in rsEEG patterns among DIP, PD, and HC groups. DIP patients exhibited increased theta band power compared with PD patients and HC. Moreover, DIP patients showed higher delta band coherence compared with PD patients.
Conclusion
The current study highlights the differences in EEG spectral power and inter-channel coherence between DIP and PD patients.
Significance
Our results suggest that rsEEG holds promise as a valuable tool for capturing differential characteristics between DIP and PD patients.
目的药物诱发帕金森病(DIP)是仅次于帕金森病(PD)的第二大帕金森病。尽管症状相似,但药物性帕金森综合征(DIP)是由接触特定药物或物质引起的,因此需要准确诊断。在此,我们使用静息状态脑电图(rsEEG)研究了DIP和PD的神经标记物特征。经过排除,我们分析了 15 名 DIP 患者、41 名 PD 患者和 12 名 HC 患者的数据。结果表明,DIP、PD 和 HC 组之间的 rsEEG 模式存在显著差异。与 PD 患者和 HC 相比,DIP 患者表现出更高的 Theta 波段功率。意义我们的研究结果表明,rsEEG有望成为捕捉DIP和PD患者不同特征的重要工具。
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Pub Date : 2024-10-26DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2024.10.012
Margaux Cheval , Mickaël Ferrand , Sophie Colnat-Coubois , Olivier Aron , Louise Tyvaert , Laurent Koessler , Louis Maillard
Objective
To describe the ictal scalp EEG patterns of occipital seizures (OS) and their spatiotemporal correlations with intracerebral occipital ictal discharges derived from simultaneous SEEG-EEG recordings.
Methods
Patients with SEEG confirmed OS (14 OS from 8 patients) were selected from an epilepsy surgery center and were monitored 3–10 days using simultaneous scalp EEG and SEEG recordings.
Results
On scalp EEG, the most common onset patterns were background activity suppression (28.6 %) and high amplitude slow wave corresponding to intracerebral DC-shift (28.6 %) and occurred with a median delay of 0 s after intra-cerebral onset. The initial discharge involved occipital electrodes in only 50 % of the seizures (7/14) with additional basal temporal (8/14) or parietal electrodes (5/14). The onset was ipsilateral to the intra-cerebral onset zone in 71.4 % of seizures and bilateral in the remaining (28.6 %). The most common propagation pattern was either unilateral (50 %) or bilateral (50 %) and a rhythmic slow activity (66.7 %). Different OS subtypes display distinct scalp EEG patterns.
Conclusion
Scalp EEG accurately determines intra-cerebral seizure onset time in OS and has good lateralizing value. However, initial scalp modification does not always involves occipital electrodes and the second modification is well lateralizing in only 50 % of seizures.
Significance
This study describes will help clinicians to better identify OS during video EEG and better plan intra-cerebral explorations for epilepsy surgery.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-26DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2024.10.010
Anny Maza , Sandra Goizueta , María Dolores Navarro , Enrique Noé , Joan Ferri , Valery Naranjo , Roberto Llorens
Objective
To investigate the differences in the brain responses of healthy controls (HC) and patients with disorders of consciousness (DOC) to familiar and non-familiar audiovisual stimuli and their consistency with the clinical progress.
Methods
EEG responses of 19 HC and 19 patients with DOC were recorded while watching emotionally-valenced familiar and non-familiar videos. Differential entropy of the EEG recordings was used to train machine learning models aimed to distinguish brain responses to stimuli type. The consistency of brain responses with the clinical progress of the patients was also evaluated.
Results
Models trained using data from HC outperformed those for patients. However, the performance of the models for patients was not influenced by their clinical condition. The models were successfully trained for over 75% of participants, regardless of their clinical condition. More than 75% of patients whose CRS-R scores increased post-study displayed distinguishable brain responses to both stimuli.
Conclusions
Responses to emotionally-valenced stimuli enabled modelling classifiers that were sensitive to the familiarity of the stimuli, regardless of the clinical condition of the participants and were consistent with their clinical progress in most cases.
Significance
EEG responses are sensitive to familiarity of emotionally-valenced stimuli in HC and patients with DOC.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-25DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2024.10.009
Jiajia Liu, Xing Fan, Lirui Yang, Xiaorong Tao, Yanwen Jin, Ke Li, Jun Yang, Hui Qiao
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Pub Date : 2024-10-25DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2024.10.011
Luca Pierantoni , Fabrizio Vecchio , Francesca Miraglia , Cristiano Pecchioli , Francesco Iodice , Claudia Carrarini , Mattia Pinardi , Giovanni Di Pino , Silvestro Micera , Paolo Maria Rossini
Objective
To investigate the effects of transcutaneous spinal direct current stimulation (tsDCS) on spinal cord excitability using neurophysiological methods.
Methods
Spinal cord motoneuron excitability was assessed using various neurophysiological techniques in a sham-controlled randomized experiment, which involved delivering 2 mA tsDCS and testing four different montages. Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), F-waves to supramaximal ulnar nerve stimulation and somatosensory evoked potentials to upper limb nerves stimulation were measured in the participants with the electrode configuration that yielded the greatest effect, for a total of about 18 min. 18 young volunteers were recruited.
Results
Among the tested ones, the most promising tsDCS montage was the one with the anode placed on the 7th cervical spinous process and the cathode on the glottis. With this configuration, a significant enhancement of motor responses in the hand muscles to TMS of the contralateral hand motor area was observed during tsDCS (), reaching a plateau after 6 min. This facilitation rapidly declined within a few minutes after the tsDCS was stopped.
Conclusion
Results of the different techniques suggest a possible contribution to facilitatory neuromodulation of the motoneurons at the cervical spine level.
Significance
The occurrence of enhanced excitability after tsDCS suggests potential application in individuals with partial corticospinal fiber impairment affecting hand motor function.
目的 通过神经生理学方法研究经皮脊髓直流电刺激(tsDCS)对脊髓兴奋性的影响。方法 在一项假对照随机实验中,使用各种神经生理学技术评估脊髓运动神经元的兴奋性,其中包括提供 2 mA tsDCS 和测试四种不同的单体。结果 在测试的四种tsDCS组合中,阳极位于第7颈椎棘突、阴极位于声门的组合最有希望。通过这种配置,在tsDCS期间观察到手部肌肉对对侧手部运动区TMS的运动反应明显增强(p<0.00001),6分钟后达到高峰。tsDCS停止后几分钟内,这种促进作用迅速减弱。意义tsDCS后兴奋性增强的现象表明,它有可能应用于影响手部运动功能的部分皮质脊髓纤维损伤患者。
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