The human dorsal premotor cortex facilitates the excitability of ipsilateral primary motor cortex via a short latency cortico-cortical route.
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The human dorsal premotor cortex facilitates the excitability of ipsilateral primary motor cortex via a short latency cortico-cortical route. / Groppa, Sergiu; Schlaak, Boris H; Münchau, Alexander; Werner-Petroll, Nicole; Dünnweber, Janin; Bäumer, Tobias; Nuenen, van; Bart, F L; Siebner, Hartwig R.
in: HUM BRAIN MAPP, Jahrgang 33, Nr. 2, 2, 2012, S. 419-430.Publikationen: SCORING: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift/Zeitung › SCORING: Zeitschriftenaufsatz › Forschung › Begutachtung
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T1 - The human dorsal premotor cortex facilitates the excitability of ipsilateral primary motor cortex via a short latency cortico-cortical route.
AU - Groppa, Sergiu
AU - Schlaak, Boris H
AU - Münchau, Alexander
AU - Werner-Petroll, Nicole
AU - Dünnweber, Janin
AU - Bäumer, Tobias
AU - Nuenen, van
AU - Bart, F L
AU - Siebner, Hartwig R
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - In non-human primates, invasive tracing and electrostimulation studies have identified strong ipsilateral cortico-cortical connections between dorsal premotor- (PMd) and the primary motor cortex (M1(HAND) ). Here, we applied dual-site transcranial magnetic stimulation (dsTMS) to left PMd and M1(HAND) through specifically designed minicoils to selectively probe ipsilateral PMd-to-M1(HAND) connectivity in humans. A suprathreshold test stimulus (TS) was applied to M1(HAND) producing a motor evoked potential (MEP) of about 0.5 mV in the relaxed right first dorsal interosseus muscle (FDI). A subthreshold conditioning stimulus (CS) was given to PMd 2.0-5.2 ms after the TS at intensities of 50-, 70-, or 90% of TS. The CS to PMd facilitated the MEP evoked by TS over M1(HAND) at interstimulus intervals (ISI) of 2.4 or 2.8 ms. There was a second facilitatory peak at ISI of 4.4 ms. PMd-to-M1(HAND) facilitation did not change as a function of CS intensity. Even at higher intensities, the CS alone failed to elicit a MEP or a cortical silent period in the pre-activated FDI, excluding a direct spread of excitation from PMd to M1(HAND) . No MEP facilitation was present while CS was applied rostrally over lateral prefrontal cortex. Together our results indicate that our dsTMS paradigm probes a short-latency facilitatory PMd-to-M1(HAND) pathway. The temporal pattern of MEP facilitation suggests a PMd-to-M1(HAND) route that targets intracortical M1(HAND) circuits involved in the generation of indirect corticospinal volleys. This paradigm opens up new possibilities to study context-dependent intrahemispheric PMd-to-M1(HAND) interactions in the intact human brain. Hum Brain Mapp, 2011. © 2010 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
AB - In non-human primates, invasive tracing and electrostimulation studies have identified strong ipsilateral cortico-cortical connections between dorsal premotor- (PMd) and the primary motor cortex (M1(HAND) ). Here, we applied dual-site transcranial magnetic stimulation (dsTMS) to left PMd and M1(HAND) through specifically designed minicoils to selectively probe ipsilateral PMd-to-M1(HAND) connectivity in humans. A suprathreshold test stimulus (TS) was applied to M1(HAND) producing a motor evoked potential (MEP) of about 0.5 mV in the relaxed right first dorsal interosseus muscle (FDI). A subthreshold conditioning stimulus (CS) was given to PMd 2.0-5.2 ms after the TS at intensities of 50-, 70-, or 90% of TS. The CS to PMd facilitated the MEP evoked by TS over M1(HAND) at interstimulus intervals (ISI) of 2.4 or 2.8 ms. There was a second facilitatory peak at ISI of 4.4 ms. PMd-to-M1(HAND) facilitation did not change as a function of CS intensity. Even at higher intensities, the CS alone failed to elicit a MEP or a cortical silent period in the pre-activated FDI, excluding a direct spread of excitation from PMd to M1(HAND) . No MEP facilitation was present while CS was applied rostrally over lateral prefrontal cortex. Together our results indicate that our dsTMS paradigm probes a short-latency facilitatory PMd-to-M1(HAND) pathway. The temporal pattern of MEP facilitation suggests a PMd-to-M1(HAND) route that targets intracortical M1(HAND) circuits involved in the generation of indirect corticospinal volleys. This paradigm opens up new possibilities to study context-dependent intrahemispheric PMd-to-M1(HAND) interactions in the intact human brain. Hum Brain Mapp, 2011. © 2010 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
M3 - SCORING: Zeitschriftenaufsatz
VL - 33
SP - 419
EP - 430
JO - HUM BRAIN MAPP
JF - HUM BRAIN MAPP
SN - 1065-9471
IS - 2
M1 - 2
ER -