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ArticleFrontiers in human neuroscience2020

Interhemispheric and Intrahemispheric Connectivity From the Left Pars Opercularis Within the Language Network Is Modulated by Transcranial Stimulation in Healthy Subjects.

Woo-Kyoung Yoo, Marine Vernet, Jung-Hoon Kim, Anna-Katharine Brem, Shahid Bashir, Fritz Ifert-Miller, Chang-Hwan Im, Mark Eldaief, Alvaro Pascual-Leone

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Article in Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 2 papers.

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9 authors at 7 institutions in 6 countries.

Woo-Kyoung YooDepartment of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, Anyang, South Korea.
Marine VernetDepartment of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
Jung-Hoon KimWeldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States.
Anna-Katharine BremDepartment of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
Shahid BashirDepartment of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
Fritz Ifert-MillerDepartment of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
Chang-Hwan ImDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea.
Mark EldaiefDepartment of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
Alvaro Pascual-LeoneDepartment of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
Harvard University · USHallym University Sacred Heart Hospital · KRHanyang University · KRPurdue University West Lafayette · USUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelona · ESUniversité Claude Bernard Lyon 1 · FRUniversity of Bern · CH

Funding

HARVARD CLINICAL AND TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCE CENTER (UL1)UL1RR025758 · NCRR · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI NADLER, LEE MARSHALL · 2008 to 2011
$91.4M
NCRR NIH HHS UL1 RR025758
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neural activity related to language can be modulated within widespread networks following learning or in response to disruption-including the experimental application of noninvasive brain stimulation. However, the spatiotemporal characteristics of such modulation remain insufficiently explored. The present study combined transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and electroencephalography (EEG) to explore the modulation of activity across the language network following continuous theta-burst stimulation (cTBS) of the left pars opercularis. In 10 healthy subjects (21 ± 2 years old, four females), neuronavigated cTBS was delivered over the left pars opercularis of the frontal operculum (part of the traditional Broca's area) at 80% of active motor threshold (AMT) stimulation intensity. Real cTBS and sham cTBS were performed in two different visits separated by at least 48 h. Before, immediately, and 10 min after cTBS, 30 single pulses of TMS were delivered to the left pars opercularis at 80% of the resting motor threshold (RMT), whereas EEG was simultaneously recorded. We examined the cTBS-induced modulation of phase locking values (PLVs) between the TMS-evoked potentials (TEPs) recorded over the pars opercularis and those recorded over its right-hemispheric homolog area, the left supramarginal area, and the left superior temporal area in different EEG frequency bands and different time windows following cTBS. cTBS to the left pars opercularis induced within the gamma band: (1) a significant increase in TEP phase synchronization between the left and right pars opercularis at an early time window (250-350 ms) following cTBS; and (2) significantly increased PLV with the left supramarginal area and the left superior temporal area at a later time window (600-700 ms). In the theta and delta band, cTBS to the left pars opercularis induced significantly increased phase synchronization of TEPs between the left pars opercularis and the posterior left hemispheric language areas at a late time window. In sham condition, there was a significant decrease in TEP phase synchronization of the high beta band between left pars opercularis and left superior temporal area at 200-300 ms. These results contribute to characterize the dynamics of the language network and may have implications in the development of noninvasive stimulation protocols to promote the language rehabilitation in aphasia patients.

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continuous theta-burst stimulationgamma bandnoninvasive brain stimulationphase synchronizationTMS-evoked potentials

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PMID32256324
PMCPMC7090226
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