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@ARTICLE{Weiss:137841,
author = {Weiss, Daniel and Klotz, Rosa and Govindan, Rathinaswamy B
and Scholten, Marlieke and Naros, Georgios and
Ramos-Murguialday, Ander and Bunjes, Friedemann and Meisner,
Christoph and Plewnia, Christian and Krüger, Rejko and
Gharabaghi, Alireza},
title = {{S}ubthalamic stimulation modulates cortical motor network
activity and synchronization in {P}arkinson's disease.},
journal = {Brain},
volume = {138},
number = {3},
issn = {1460-2156},
address = {Oxford},
publisher = {Oxford Univ. Press},
reportid = {DZNE-2020-04163},
pages = {679-693},
year = {2015},
abstract = {Dynamic modulations of large-scale network activity and
synchronization are inherent to a broad spectrum of
cognitive processes and are disturbed in neuropsychiatric
conditions including Parkinson's disease. Here, we set out
to address the motor network activity and synchronization in
Parkinson's disease and its modulation with subthalamic
stimulation. To this end, 20 patients with idiopathic
Parkinson's disease with subthalamic nucleus stimulation
were analysed on externally cued right hand finger movements
with 1.5-s interstimulus interval. Simultaneous recordings
were obtained from electromyography on antagonistic muscles
(right flexor digitorum and extensor digitorum) together
with 64-channel electroencephalography. Time-frequency
event-related spectral perturbations were assessed to
determine cortical and muscular activity. Next,
cross-spectra in the time-frequency domain were analysed to
explore the cortico-cortical synchronization. The
time-frequency modulations enabled us to select a
time-frequency range relevant for motor processing. On these
time-frequency windows, we developed an extension of the
phase synchronization index to quantify the global
cortico-cortical synchronization and to obtain topographic
differentiations of distinct electrode sites with respect to
their contributions to the global phase synchronization
index. The spectral measures were used to predict clinical
and reaction time outcome using regression analysis. We
found that movement-related desynchronization of cortical
activity in the upper alpha and beta range was significantly
facilitated with 'stimulation on' compared to 'stimulation
off' on electrodes over the bilateral parietal,
sensorimotor, premotor, supplementary-motor, and prefrontal
areas, including the bilateral inferior prefrontal areas.
These spectral modulations enabled us to predict both
clinical and reaction time improvement from subthalamic
stimulation. With 'stimulation on', interhemispheric
cortico-cortical coherence in the beta band was
significantly attenuated over the bilateral sensorimotor
areas. Similarly, the global cortico-cortical phase
synchronization was attenuated, and the topographic
differentiation revealed stronger desynchronization over the
(ipsilateral) right-hemispheric prefrontal, premotor and
sensorimotor areas compared to 'stimulation off'. We further
demonstrated that the cortico-cortical phase synchronization
was largely dominated by genuine neuronal coupling. The
clinical improvement with 'stimulation on' compared to
'stimulation off' could be predicted from this cortical
decoupling with multiple regressions, and the reduction of
synchronization over the right prefrontal area showed a
linear univariate correlation with clinical improvement. Our
study demonstrates wide-spread activity and synchronization
modulations of the cortical motor network, and highlights
subthalamic stimulation as a network-modulating therapy.
Accordingly, subthalamic stimulation may release bilateral
cortical computational resources by facilitating
movement-related desynchronization. Moreover, the
subthalamic nucleus is critical to balance inhibitory and
facilitatory cortical players within the motor program.},
keywords = {Adult / Aged / Antiparkinson Agents: therapeutic use /
Cortical Synchronization: drug effects / Cortical
Synchronization: physiology / Deep Brain Stimulation:
methods / Evoked Potentials, Motor: physiology / Female /
Humans / Levodopa: therapeutic use / Longitudinal Studies /
Male / Middle Aged / Motor Cortex: physiopathology / Nerve
Net: physiopathology / Neural Pathways: physiopathology /
Parkinson Disease: pathology / Parkinson Disease: therapy /
Psychomotor Performance: drug effects / Subthalamus:
physiology / Time Factors / Treatment Outcome /
Antiparkinson Agents (NLM Chemicals) / Levodopa (NLM
Chemicals)},
cin = {AG Gasser / Tübingen common / Ext HIH},
ddc = {610},
cid = {I:(DE-2719)1210000 / I:(DE-2719)6000018 /
I:(DE-2719)5000057},
pnm = {345 - Population Studies and Genetics (POF3-345)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-345},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:25558877},
pmc = {pmc:PMC4408429},
doi = {10.1093/brain/awu380},
url = {https://pub.dzne.de/record/137841},
}