PMID- 31043330 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20200113 LR - 20200113 IS - 1876-4754 (Electronic) IS - 1876-4754 (Linking) VI - 12 IP - 5 DP - 2019 Sep-Oct TI - Somatosensory-motor cortex interactions measured using dual-site transcranial magnetic stimulation. PG - 1229-1243 LID - S1935-861X(19)30200-1 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.brs.2019.04.009 [doi] AB - BACKGROUND: Dual-site transcranial magnetic stimulation (ds-TMS) is a neurophysiological technique to measure functional connectivity between cortical areas. OBJECTIVE/HYPOTHESIS: To date, no study has used ds-TMS to investigate short intra-hemispheric interactions between the somatosensory areas and primary motor cortex (M1). METHODS: We examined somatosensory-M1 interactions in the left hemisphere in six experiments using ds-TMS. In Experiment 1 (n = 16), the effects of different conditioning stimulus (CS) intensities on somatosensory-M1 interactions were measured with 1 and 2.5 ms inter-stimulus intervals (ISIs). In Experiment 2 (n = 16), the time-course of somatosensoy-M1 interactions was studied using supra-threshold CS intensity at 6 different ISIs. In Experiment 3 (n = 16), the time-course of short-interval cortical inhibition (SICI) and effects of different CS intensities on SICI were measured similar to Experiments 1 and 2. Experiment 4 (n = 13) examined the effects of active contraction on SICI and somatosensory-M1 inhibition. Experiments 5 and 6 (n = 10) examined the interactions between SAI with either 1 ms SICI or somatosensory-M1 inhibition. RESULTS: Experiments 1 and 2 revealed reduced MEP amplitudes when applying somatosensory CS 1 ms prior to M1 TS with 140 and 160% CS intensities. Experiment 3 demonstrated that SICI at 1 and 2.5 ms did not correlate with somatosensory-M1 inhibition. Experiment 4 found that SICI but not somatosensory-M1 inhibition was abolished with active contraction. The results of Experiments 5-6 showed SAI was disinhibited in presence of somatosensory-M1 while SAI was increased in presence of SICI. CONCLUSION: Collectively, the results support the notion that the somatosensory areas inhibit the ipsilateral M1 at very short latencies. CI - Copyright (c) 2019 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. FAU - Brown, Matt J N AU - Brown MJN AD - Division of Brain, Imaging, & Behaviour - Systems Neuroscience, Krembil Brain Institute, Toronto, Canada; Department of Kinesiology and Health Science, California State University Sacramento, Sacramento, USA. Electronic address: matt.brown@csus.edu. FAU - Weissbach, Anne AU - Weissbach A AD - Division of Brain, Imaging, & Behaviour - Systems Neuroscience, Krembil Brain Institute, Toronto, Canada; Institute of Neurogenetics, University of Lubeck, Lubeck, Germany; Department of Neurology, University of Lubeck, Lubeck, Germany. FAU - Pauly, Martje G AU - Pauly MG AD - Institute of Neurogenetics, University of Lubeck, Lubeck, Germany. FAU - Vesia, Michael AU - Vesia M AD - Division of Brain, Imaging, & Behaviour - Systems Neuroscience, Krembil Brain Institute, Toronto, Canada; School of Kinesiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. FAU - Gunraj, Carolyn AU - Gunraj C AD - Division of Brain, Imaging, & Behaviour - Systems Neuroscience, Krembil Brain Institute, Toronto, Canada. FAU - Baarbe, Julianne AU - Baarbe J AD - Division of Brain, Imaging, & Behaviour - Systems Neuroscience, Krembil Brain Institute, Toronto, Canada; Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. FAU - Munchau, Alexander AU - Munchau A AD - Institute of Neurogenetics, University of Lubeck, Lubeck, Germany. FAU - Baumer, Tobias AU - Baumer T AD - Institute of Neurogenetics, University of Lubeck, Lubeck, Germany. FAU - Chen, Robert AU - Chen R AD - Division of Brain, Imaging, & Behaviour - Systems Neuroscience, Krembil Brain Institute, Toronto, Canada; Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. LA - eng GR - PDF 338973/CIHR/Canada GR - 357215/CIHR/Canada GR - FRN 154292/CIHR/Canada PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20190423 PL - United States TA - Brain Stimul JT - Brain stimulation JID - 101465726 SB - IM MH - Adult MH - Electromyography/methods MH - Evoked Potentials, Motor/*physiology MH - Female MH - Functional Laterality/physiology MH - Humans MH - Male MH - Motor Cortex/*physiology MH - Neural Inhibition/*physiology MH - Somatosensory Cortex/*physiology MH - Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation/*methods MH - Young Adult OTO - NOTNLM OT - Dual-site TMS OT - Motor OT - Paired-pulse TMS OT - Sensorimotor control OT - Somatosensory OT - TMS EDAT- 2019/05/03 06:00 MHDA- 2020/01/14 06:00 CRDT- 2019/05/03 06:00 PHST- 2018/01/10 00:00 [received] PHST- 2019/04/12 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2019/04/16 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2019/05/03 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2020/01/14 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2019/05/03 06:00 [entrez] AID - S1935-861X(19)30200-1 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.brs.2019.04.009 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Brain Stimul. 2019 Sep-Oct;12(5):1229-1243. doi: 10.1016/j.brs.2019.04.009. Epub 2019 Apr 23.