Long-term reorganization of human motor cortex driven by short-term sensory stimulation

10.1038/264 ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaheen Hamdy ◽  
John C. Rothwell ◽  
Qasim Aziz ◽  
Krishna D. Singh ◽  
David G. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Motor Cortex ◽  
Sensory Stimulation ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Human Motor Cortex ◽  
Human Motor

Long-term and Time Dependent Homeostatic and Non-Homeostatic Metaplasticity in Human Motor Cortex

2012 ◽  
Vol 43 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
F Müller-Dahlhaus ◽  
C Möller ◽  
MK Lu ◽  
N Arai ◽  
A Fuhl ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Motor Cortex ◽  
Time Dependent ◽  
Human Motor Cortex ◽  
Human Motor

146. Preceding repetitive stimulation diminishes long-term potentiation-like plasticity in human motor cortex

2009 ◽  
Vol 120 (1) ◽  
pp. e61
Author(s):  
I. Delvendahl ◽  
N. Jung ◽  
M. Cronjaeger ◽  
F. Mainberger ◽  
N. Kuhnke ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Motor Cortex ◽  
Long Term Potentiation ◽  
Repetitive Stimulation ◽  
Human Motor Cortex ◽  
Term Potentiation ◽  
Human Motor

Exploring the effect of inducing long-term potentiation in the human motor cortex on motor learning

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 137-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tarek K. Rajji ◽  
Shi-Kai Liu ◽  
Marina V. Frantseva ◽  
Benoit H. Mulsant ◽  
Jessica Thoma ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Motor Cortex ◽  
Motor Learning ◽  
Long Term Potentiation ◽  
Human Motor Cortex ◽  
Term Potentiation ◽  
Human Motor

Mechanisms of human motor cortex facilitation induced by subthreshold 5-Hz repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation

2013 ◽  
Vol 109 (12) ◽  
pp. 3060-3066 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Sommer ◽  
Milena Rummel ◽  
Christoph Norden ◽  
Holger Rothkegel ◽  
Nicolas Lang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation ◽  
Motor Cortex ◽  
Magnetic Stimulation ◽  
Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation ◽  
Long Term Potentiation ◽  
Human Motor Cortex ◽  
Term Potentiation ◽  
Human Motor ◽  
Extensor Carpi Radialis

Our knowledge about the mechanisms of human motor cortex facilitation induced by repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is still incomplete. Here we used pharmacological conditioning with carbamazepine, dextrometorphan, lorazepam, and placebo to elucidate the type of plasticity underlying this facilitation, and to probe if mechanisms reminiscent of long-term potentiation are involved. Over the primary motor cortex of 10 healthy subjects, we applied biphasic rTMS pulses of effective posterior current direction in the brain. We used six blocks of 200 pulses at 5-Hz frequency and 90% active motor threshold intensity and controlled for corticospinal excitability changes using motor-evoked potential (MEP) amplitudes and latencies elicited by suprathreshold pulses before, in between, and after rTMS. Target muscle was the dominant abductor digiti minimi muscle; we coregistered the dominant extensor carpi radialis muscle. We found a lasting facilitation induced by this type of rTMS. The GABAergic medication lorazepam and to a lesser extent the ion channel blocker carbamazepine reduced the MEP facilitation after biphasic effective posteriorly oriented rTMS, whereas the N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor-antagonist dextrometorphan had no effect. Our main conclusion is that the mechanism of the facilitation induced by biphasic effective posterior rTMS is more likely posttetanic potentiation than long-term potentiation. Additional findings were prolonged MEP latency under carbamazepine, consistent with sodium channel blockade, and larger MEP amplitudes from extensor carpi radialis under lorazepam, suggesting GABAergic involvement in the center-surround balance of excitability.

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