High-Frequency Electrical Stimulation of Cardiac Cells and Application to Artifact Reduction

2012 ◽  
Vol 59 (5) ◽  
pp. 1381-1390 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Dura ◽  
M. Q. Chen ◽  
O. T. Inan ◽  
G. T. A. Kovacs ◽  
L. Giovangrandi
Keyword(s):  
Electrical Stimulation ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Cardiac Cells ◽  
Artifact Reduction ◽  
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scholarly journals Deep Brain Stimulation of the Posterior Insula in Chronic Pain: A Theoretical Framework

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 639
Author(s):  
David Bergeron ◽  
Sami Obaid ◽  
Marie-Pierre Fournier-Gosselin ◽  
Alain Bouthillier ◽  
Dang Khoa Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Pain ◽  
Electrical Stimulation ◽  
Deep Brain Stimulation ◽  
Brain Stimulation ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Brain Lesion ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Posterior Insula ◽  
Deep Brain ◽  
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Introduction: To date, clinical trials of deep brain stimulation (DBS) for refractory chronic pain have yielded unsatisfying results. Recent evidence suggests that the posterior insula may represent a promising DBS target for this indication. Methods: We present a narrative review highlighting the theoretical basis of posterior insula DBS in patients with chronic pain. Results: Neuroanatomical studies identified the posterior insula as an important cortical relay center for pain and interoception. Intracranial neuronal recordings showed that the earliest response to painful laser stimulation occurs in the posterior insula. The posterior insula is one of the only regions in the brain whose low-frequency electrical stimulation can elicit painful sensations. Most chronic pain syndromes, such as fibromyalgia, had abnormal functional connectivity of the posterior insula on functional imaging. Finally, preliminary results indicated that high-frequency electrical stimulation of the posterior insula can acutely increase pain thresholds. Conclusion: In light of the converging evidence from neuroanatomical, brain lesion, neuroimaging, and intracranial recording and stimulation as well as non-invasive stimulation studies, it appears that the insula is a critical hub for central integration and processing of painful stimuli, whose high-frequency electrical stimulation has the potential to relieve patients from the sensory and affective burden of chronic pain.

HIGH-FREQUENCY MONOPOLAR ELECTRICAL STIMULATION OF THE RAT CEREBRAL CORTEX

Neurosurgery ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 189-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masahiro Oinuma ◽  
Kyouichi Suzuki ◽  
Takashi Honda ◽  
Masato Matsumoto ◽  
Tatsuya Sasaki ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cerebral Cortex ◽  
Electrical Stimulation ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Rat Cerebral Cortex ◽  
Stimulation Of

New Mechanism That Accounts for Position Sensitivity of Saccades Evoked in Response to Stimulation of Superior Colliculus

1998 ◽  
Vol 80 (6) ◽  
pp. 3373-3379 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. K. Moschovakis ◽  
Y. Dalezios ◽  
J. Petit ◽  
A. A. Grantyn
Keyword(s):  
Electrical Stimulation ◽  
Eye Movements ◽  
Superior Colliculus ◽  
Short Duration ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Initial Position ◽  
Characteristic Vector ◽  
Extraocular Motoneurons ◽  
Position Sensitivity ◽  
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Moschovakis, A. K., Y. Dalezios, J. Petit, and A. A. Grantyn. New mechanism that accounts for position sensitivity of saccades evoked in response to stimulation of superior colliculus. J. Neurophysiol. 80: 3373–3379, 1998. Electrical stimulation of the feline superior colliculus (SC) is known to evoke saccades whose size depends on the site stimulated (the “characteristic vector” of evoked saccades) and the initial position of the eyes. Similar stimuli were recently shown to produce slow drifts that are presumably caused by relatively direct projections of the SC onto extraocular motoneurons. Both slow and fast evoked eye movements are similarly affected by the initial position of the eyes, despite their dissimilar metrics, kinematics, and anatomic substrates. We tested the hypothesis that the position sensitivity of evoked saccades is due to the superposition of largely position-invariant saccades and position-dependent slow drifts. We show that such a mechanism can account for the fact that the position sensitivity of evoked saccades increases together with the size of their characteristic vector. Consistent with it, the position sensitivity of saccades drops considerably when the contribution of slow drifts is minimal as, for example, when there is no overlap between evoked saccades and short-duration trains of high-frequency stimuli.

Differential conditioning of associative synaptic enhancement in hippocampal brain slices

Science ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 232 (4746) ◽  
pp. 85-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelso ◽  
TH Brown
Keyword(s):  
Electrical Stimulation ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Differential Conditioning ◽  
Pyramidal Neurons ◽  
Brain Slices ◽  
Synaptic Inputs ◽  
Hippocampal Synapses ◽  
Stimulation Paradigm ◽  
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An electrophysiological stimulation paradigm similar to one that produces Pavlovian conditioning was applied to synaptic inputs to pyramidal neurons of hippocampal brain slices. Persistent synaptic enhancement was induced in one of two weak synaptic inputs by pairing high-frequency electrical stimulation of the weak input with stimulation of a third, stronger input to the same region. Forward (temporally overlapping) but not backward (temporally separate) pairings caused this enhancement. Thus hippocampal synapses in vitro can undergo the conditional and selective type of associative modification that could provide the substrate for some of the mnemonic functions in which the hippocampus is thought to participate.

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