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ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2022

The hand motor hotspot for seed-based functional connectivity of hand motor networks at rest.

Laura Bonzano, Marta Bortoletto, Agnese Zazio, Costanza Iester, Antonietta Stango, Roberto Gasparotti, Carlo Miniussi, Marco Bove

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Article in Frontiers in neuroscience, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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Laura BonzanoDepartment of Neuroscience, Rehabilitation, Ophthalmology, Genetics, Maternal and Child Health, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy.
Marta BortolettoNeurophysiology Laboratory, IRCCS Istituto Centro San Giovanni di Dio Fatebenefratelli, Brescia, Italy.
Agnese ZazioNeurophysiology Laboratory, IRCCS Istituto Centro San Giovanni di Dio Fatebenefratelli, Brescia, Italy.
Costanza IesterDepartment of Neuroscience, Rehabilitation, Ophthalmology, Genetics, Maternal and Child Health, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy.
Antonietta StangoNeurophysiology Laboratory, IRCCS Istituto Centro San Giovanni di Dio Fatebenefratelli, Brescia, Italy.
Roberto GasparottiSection of Neuroradiology, Department of Medical and Surgical Specialties, Radiological Sciences, and Public Health, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy.
Carlo MiniussiCenter for Mind/Brain Sciences - CIMeC, University of Trento, Rovereto, Italy.
Marco BoveSection of Human Physiology, Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy.

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Abstract

In the seed-based method for studying functional connectivity (FC), seed selection is relevant. Here, we propose a new methodological approach for resting-state FC analysis of hand motor networks using the individual hand motor hotspot (hMHS) as seed. Nineteen right-handed healthy volunteers underwent a transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) session and resting-state fMRI. For each subject, the hMHS in both hemispheres was identified by TMS with the contralateral abductor pollicis brevis muscle as the target, the site eliciting the highest and most reliable motor-evoked potentials. Seed regions were built on coordinates on the cortex corresponding to the individual left and right hMHSs. For comparison, the left and right Brodmann's area 4 (BA4) masks extracted from a standard atlas were used as seed. The left and right hMHSs showed FC patterns at rest mainly including sensorimotor regions, with a bilateral connectivity only for the left hMHS. The statistical contrast BA4 > hMHS for both hemispheres showed different extension and lateralization of the functionally connected cortical regions. On the contrary, no voxels survived the opposite contrast (hMHS > BA4). This suggests that detection of individual hand motor seeds by TMS allows to identify functionally connected motor networks that are more specific with respect to those obtained starting from the

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hand motor hotspothand motor networksresting-state functional MRIseed-based functional connectivity (FC)transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)

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