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ArticleScientific reports2024

Real-time cortical dynamics during motor inhibition.

Elias Paolo Casula, Valentina Pezzopane, Andrea Roncaioli, Luca Battaglini, Raffaella Rumiati, John Rothwell, Lorenzo Rocchi, Giacomo Koch

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Article in Scientific reports, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.5field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Efficacy of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for post-stroke spasticity: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 6 institutions in 2 countries.

Elias Paolo CasulaDepartment of Clinical and Movement Neurosciences, University College London, London, WC1N 3BG, UK. elias.casula@gmail.com.
Valentina PezzopaneDepartment of Behavioural and Clinical Neurology, Santa Lucia Foundation, 00179, Rome, Italy.
Andrea RoncaioliDepartment of Behavioural and Clinical Neurology, Santa Lucia Foundation, 00179, Rome, Italy.
Luca BattagliniDepartment of General Psychology, University of Padua, 35131, Padua, Italy.
Raffaella RumiatiDepartment of System Medicine, University of Tor Vergata, 00133, Rome, Italy.
John RothwellDepartment of Clinical and Movement Neurosciences, University College London, London, WC1N 3BG, UK.
Lorenzo Rocchi *Department of Clinical and Movement Neurosciences, University College London, London, WC1N 3BG, UK.
Giacomo Koch *Department of Behavioural and Clinical Neurology, Santa Lucia Foundation, 00179, Rome, Italy.
Fondazione Santa Lucia · ITUniversity College London · GBUniversity of Cagliari · ITUniversity of Ferrara · ITUniversity of Padua · ITUniversity of Rome Tor Vergata · IT

Funding

HORIZON EUROPE Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions 798957Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca Fondi DM 502/2022 - PNRR MC42
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The inhibition of action is a fundamental executive mechanism of human behaviour that involve a complex neural network. In spite of the progresses made so far, many questions regarding the brain dynamics occurring during action inhibition are still unsolved. Here, we used a novel approach optimized to investigate real-time effective brain dynamics, which combines transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) with simultaneous electroencephalographic (EEG) recordings. 22 healthy volunteers performed a motor Go/NoGo task during TMS of the hand-hotspot of the primary motor cortex (M1) and whole-scalp EEG recordings. We reconstructed source-based real-time spatiotemporal dynamics of cortical activity and cortico-cortical connectivity throughout the task. Our results showed a task-dependent bi-directional change in theta/gamma supplementary motor cortex (SMA) and M1 connectivity that, when participants were instructed to inhibit their response, resulted in an increase of a specific TMS-evoked EEG potential (N100), likely due to a GABA-mediated inhibition. Interestingly, these changes were linearly related to reaction times, when participants were asked to produce a motor response. In addition, TMS perturbation revealed a task-dependent long-lasting modulation of SMA-M1 natural frequencies, i.e. alpha/beta activity. Some of these results are shared by animal models and shed new light on the physiological mechanisms of motor inhibition in humans.

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ElectroencephalographyEvoked PotentialsBrainEvoked Potentials, MotorHumansReaction TimeTranscranial Magnetic Stimulation

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PMID38570543
PMCPMC10991402
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