Marlieke Scholten1, Rosa Klotz2, Christian Plewnia3, Tobias Wächter4, Carina Mielke2, Bastiaan R Bloem5, Christoph Braun6, Ulf Ziemann7, Rathinaswamy B Govindan8, Alireza Gharabaghi9, Rejko Krüger10, Daniel Weiss11. 1. Department of Neurodegenerative Diseases and Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research (HIH), University of Tuebingen, Germany; German Centre of Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany; Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN), University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany; Graduate School of Neural & Behavioural Sciences, International Max Planck Research School, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany. Electronic address: marlieke.scholten@uni-tuebingen.de. 2. Department of Neurodegenerative Diseases and Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research (HIH), University of Tuebingen, Germany; German Centre of Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany; Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN), University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany. 3. Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN), University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany. 4. Centre of Rehabilitation, Bad Gögging, Passauer Wolf, Germany. 5. Radboud University Medical Centre, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Department of Neurology, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. 6. Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN), University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany; MEG Center, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany; CIMeC, Center of Mind/Brain Sciences, University of Trento, Italy. 7. Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN), University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany; Department of Neurology and Stroke, and Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research (HIH), University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany. 8. Division of Fetal and Transitional Medicine, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA. 9. Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN), University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany; Division of Functional and Restorative Neurosurgery, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany. 10. Department of Neurodegenerative Diseases and Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research (HIH), University of Tuebingen, Germany; German Centre of Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany; Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN), University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany; Clinical and Experimental Neuroscience, Luxembourg Center for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB), University of Luxembourg and Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg (CHL), Luxembourg. 11. Department of Neurodegenerative Diseases and Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research (HIH), University of Tuebingen, Germany; German Centre of Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany; Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN), University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany. Electronic address: daniel.weiss@uni-tuebingen.de.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: The pathophysiology of deep brain stimulation mechanisms and resistant freezing phenomena in idiopathic Parkinson's disease (iPD) remains incompletely understood. Further studies on the neuromuscular substrates are needed. METHODS: We analyzed 16 patients with advanced iPD and bilateral subthalamic nucleus stimulation, and 13 age- and gender-matched healthy controls. Patients were tested after overnight withdrawal of medication with 'stimulation off' (StimOff) and 'stimulation on' (StimOn). Subjects performed continuous tapping of the right index finger with simultaneous recordings of biomechanical registration, EMG of finger flexors and extensors, and EEG. First, we analyzed EEG and EMG spectral measures comparing StimOff with healthy controls and StimOff with StimOn (irrespective of freezing). Second, we contrasted 'regular (unimpaired) tapping' and 'freezing' resistant to subthalamic neurostimulation as obtained in StimOn. RESULTS: iPD showed increased intermuscular coherence around 8Hz in StimOff that was reduced in StimOn. This 8Hz muscular activity was not coherent to cortical activity. 'Freezing' episodes showed increased muscle activity of finger flexors and extensors at 6-9Hz, and increased cortical activity at 7-11Hz. During transition from regular tapping to 'freezing' the cortical activity first increased over the left sensorimotor area followed by a spread to the left frontal and right parietal areas. CONCLUSIONS: We identified neuromuscular motor network features of subthalamic neurostimulation therapy and resistant upper limb freezing that point to increased low-frequency muscular and cortical activity. SIGNIFICANCE: Together, our findings demonstrate several motor network abnormalities associated with upper limb freezing that may translate into future research on freezing of gait in iPD.
OBJECTIVE: The pathophysiology of deep brain stimulation mechanisms and resistant freezing phenomena in idiopathic Parkinson's disease (iPD) remains incompletely understood. Further studies on the neuromuscular substrates are needed. METHODS: We analyzed 16 patients with advanced iPD and bilateral subthalamic nucleus stimulation, and 13 age- and gender-matched healthy controls. Patients were tested after overnight withdrawal of medication with 'stimulation off' (StimOff) and 'stimulation on' (StimOn). Subjects performed continuous tapping of the right index finger with simultaneous recordings of biomechanical registration, EMG of finger flexors and extensors, and EEG. First, we analyzed EEG and EMG spectral measures comparing StimOff with healthy controls and StimOff with StimOn (irrespective of freezing). Second, we contrasted 'regular (unimpaired) tapping' and 'freezing' resistant to subthalamic neurostimulation as obtained in StimOn. RESULTS: iPD showed increased intermuscular coherence around 8Hz in StimOff that was reduced in StimOn. This 8Hz muscular activity was not coherent to cortical activity. 'Freezing' episodes showed increased muscle activity of finger flexors and extensors at 6-9Hz, and increased cortical activity at 7-11Hz. During transition from regular tapping to 'freezing' the cortical activity first increased over the left sensorimotor area followed by a spread to the left frontal and right parietal areas. CONCLUSIONS: We identified neuromuscular motor network features of subthalamic neurostimulation therapy and resistant upper limb freezing that point to increased low-frequency muscular and cortical activity. SIGNIFICANCE: Together, our findings demonstrate several motor network abnormalities associated with upper limb freezing that may translate into future research on freezing of gait in iPD.
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