PMID- 36210268 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20221124 LR - 20230209 IS - 1872-8952 (Electronic) IS - 1388-2457 (Linking) VI - 144 DP - 2022 Dec TI - High-frequency oscillations-based precise temporal resolution of short latency afferent inhibition in the human brain. PG - 135-141 LID - S1388-2457(22)00892-6 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.clinph.2022.09.006 [doi] AB - OBJECTIVE: Sensorimotor integration is a crucial process for adaptive behaviour and can be explored non-invasively with a conditioned transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) paradigm - i.e. short-latency afferent inhibition (SAI). To gain insight into the sensorimotor integration phenomenon, we used two different approaches to combine peripheral and cortical stimulation in the SAI paradigm, measuring not only the latency of low frequency somatosensory evoked potentials (SEPs) but also the peaks of high frequency oscillations (HFOs) underlying SEPs. METHODS: The interstimulus intervals (ISIs) between the electrical stimulation of the median nerve and the motor cortex magnetic stimulation were determined relative to the latency of the earliest SEPs cortical potential (N20) or the HFOs peaks. In particular, the first and last negative and positive peaks of HFOs were extracted through a custom-made MATLAB script. RESULTS: Thirty-three healthy subjects participated in this study. We found out that muscle responses after TMS were suppressed when ISIs were comprised between -1 to +3 ms relative to the N20 peak and at all ISIs relative to HFOs peaks, except for the first negative peak. CONCLUSIONS: Coupling peripheral and cortical stimulation at early interstimulus intervals - before the SEPs N20 peak - may modulate muscle response. SIGNIFICANCE: Our findings confirm that afferent inhibition is produced both through a direct (thalamus-motor cortex) and indirect (thalamus-somatosensory-motor cortex) pathway. CI - Copyright (c) 2022 International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Motolese, Francesco AU - Motolese F AD - Neurology, Neurophysiology and Neurobiology Unit, Department of Medicine, Universita Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Rome, Italy. Electronic address: f.motolese@policlinicocampus.it. FAU - Rossi, Mariagrazia AU - Rossi M AD - Neurology, Neurophysiology and Neurobiology Unit, Department of Medicine, Universita Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Rome, Italy. FAU - Capone, Fioravante AU - Capone F AD - Neurology, Neurophysiology and Neurobiology Unit, Department of Medicine, Universita Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Rome, Italy. FAU - Cruciani, Alessandro AU - Cruciani A AD - Neurology, Neurophysiology and Neurobiology Unit, Department of Medicine, Universita Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Rome, Italy. FAU - Musumeci, Gabriella AU - Musumeci G AD - Neurology, Neurophysiology and Neurobiology Unit, Department of Medicine, Universita Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Rome, Italy. FAU - Manzo, Marco AU - Manzo M AD - Neurology, Neurophysiology and Neurobiology Unit, Department of Medicine, Universita Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Rome, Italy. FAU - Pilato, Fabio AU - Pilato F AD - Neurology, Neurophysiology and Neurobiology Unit, Department of Medicine, Universita Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Rome, Italy. FAU - Di Pino, Giovanni AU - Di Pino G AD - Neurology, Neurophysiology and Neurobiology Unit, Department of Medicine, Universita Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Rome, Italy; Research Unit of Neurophysiology and Neuroengineering of Human-Technology Interaction, Department of Medicine, Universita Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Rome, Italy. FAU - Di Lazzaro, Vincenzo AU - Di Lazzaro V AD - Neurology, Neurophysiology and Neurobiology Unit, Department of Medicine, Universita Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Rome, Italy. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20220923 PL - Netherlands TA - Clin Neurophysiol JT - Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology JID - 100883319 SB - IM CIN - Clin Neurophysiol. 2022 Dec;144:119-120. PMID: 36244913 MH - Humans MH - *Evoked Potentials, Motor/physiology MH - Neural Inhibition/physiology MH - Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation MH - *Motor Cortex/physiology MH - Evoked Potentials, Somatosensory/physiology MH - Median Nerve/physiology MH - Electric Stimulation MH - Afferent Pathways/physiology OTO - NOTNLM OT - HFOs OT - High-frequency oscillations OT - SAI OT - Sensorimotor integration OT - Short-latency afferent inhibition EDAT- 2022/10/10 06:00 MHDA- 2022/11/25 06:00 CRDT- 2022/10/09 22:05 PHST- 2022/06/12 00:00 [received] PHST- 2022/09/08 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2022/09/15 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2022/10/10 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/11/25 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2022/10/09 22:05 [entrez] AID - S1388-2457(22)00892-6 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.clinph.2022.09.006 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Clin Neurophysiol. 2022 Dec;144:135-141. doi: 10.1016/j.clinph.2022.09.006. Epub 2022 Sep 23.