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ArticleFrontiers in neural circuits2015

Subthalamic deep brain stimulation reduces pathological information transmission to the thalamus in a rat model of parkinsonism.

Collin J Anderson, Daylan T Sheppard, Rachel Huynh, Daria Nesterovich Anderson, Christian A Polar, Alan D Dorval

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Article in Frontiers in neural circuits, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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Collin J AndersonDepartment of Bioengineering, University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
Daylan T SheppardDepartment of Bioengineering, University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
Rachel HuynhDepartment of Bioengineering, University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
Daria Nesterovich AndersonDepartment of Bioengineering, University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
Christian A PolarDepartment of Bioengineering, University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
Alan D DorvalDepartment of Bioengineering, University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT, USA.

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Abstract

The degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta leads to parkinsonian motor symptoms via changes in electrophysiological activity throughout the basal ganglia. High-frequency deep brain stimulation (DBS) partially treats these symptoms, but the mechanisms are unclear. We hypothesize that motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD) are associated with increased information transmission from basal ganglia output neurons to motor thalamus input neurons and that therapeutic DBS of the subthalamic nucleus (STN) treats these symptoms by reducing this extraneous information transmission. We tested these hypotheses in a unilateral, 6-hydroxydopamine-lesioned rodent model of hemiparkinsonism. Information transfer between basal ganglia output neurons and motor thalamus input neurons increased in both the orthodromic and antidromic directions with hemiparkinsonian (hPD) onset, and these changes were reversed by behaviorally therapeutic STN-DBS. Omnidirectional information increases in the parkinsonian state underscore the detrimental nature of that pathological information and suggest a loss of information channel independence. Therapeutic STN-DBS reduced that pathological information, suggesting an effective increase in the number of independent information channels. We interpret these data with a model in which pathological information and fewer information channels diminishes the scope of possible motor activities, driving parkinsonian symptoms. In this model, STN-DBS restores information-channel independence by eliminating or masking the parkinsonism-associated information, and thus enlarges the scope of possible motor activities, alleviating parkinsonian symptoms.

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Action PotentialsAdrenergic AgentsAnimalsBiophysicsDeep Brain StimulationDisease Models, AnimalFemaleFunctional LateralityMaleMedial Forebrain BundleNerve NetOxidopamineParkinsonian DisordersRatsRats, Long-EvansSubthalamic NucleusAdrenergic AgentsOxidopamine6-hydroxydopaminedeep brain stimulationneural informationparkinson diseasesubstantia nigra pars reticulatathalamic nuclei

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PMCPMC4491629

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