ArticleJournal of neurophysiology2021
Double-blind disruption of right inferior frontal cortex with TMS reduces right frontal beta power for action stopping.
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- Fronto-central resting-state 15-29 Hz transient beta events change with therapeutic transcranial magnetic stimulation for posttraumatic stress disorder and major depressive disorder.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Self-regulation of the brain's right frontal Beta rhythm using a brain-computer interface.Psychophysiology · 2022Article
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- Towards real-world generalizability of a circuit for action-stopping.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2021Review
- Volume of β-Bursts, But Not Their Rate, Predicts Successful Response Inhibition.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2021Article
- Right inferior frontal gyrus implements motor inhibitory control via beta-band oscillations in humans.eLife · 2021Article
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Abstract
Stopping action depends on the integrity of the right inferior frontal gyrus (rIFG). Electrocorticography from the rIFG shows an increase in beta power during action stopping. Scalp EEG shows a similar right frontal beta increase, but it is unknown whether this beta modulation relates to the underlying rIFG network. Demonstrating a causal relationship between the rIFG and right frontal beta in EEG during action stopping is important for putting this electrophysiological marker on a firmer footing. In a double-blind study with a true sham coil, we used fMRI-guided 1-Hz repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) to disrupt the rIFG and to test whether this reduced right frontal beta and impaired action stopping. We found that rTMS selectively slowed stop signal reaction time (SSRT) (no effect on Go) and reduced right frontal beta (no effect on sensorimotor mu/beta related to Go); it also reduced the variance of a single-trial muscle marker of stopping. Surprisingly, sham stimulation also slowed SSRTs and reduced beta. Part of this effect, however, resulted from carryover of real stimulation in participants who received real stimulation first. A post hoc between-group comparison of those participants who received real first compared with those who received sham first showed that real stimulation reduced beta significantly more. Thus, real rTMS uniquely affected metrics of stopping in the muscle and resulted in a stronger erosion of beta. We argue that this causal test validates right frontal beta as a functional marker of action stopping.
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