Stephen Meisenhelter1, Markus E Testorf2, Mark A Gorenstein3, Nicholas R Hasulak4, Thomas K Tcheng4, Joshua P Aronson3, Barbara C Jobst5. 1. School of Graduate and Advanced Studies, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, United States. Electronic address: stephen.meisenhelter.gr@dartmouth.edu. 2. Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, United States; Department of Neurology, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH 03756, United States. 3. Department of Neurology, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH 03756, United States. 4. NeuroPace Inc., Mountain View, CA, United States. 5. School of Graduate and Advanced Studies, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, United States; Department of Neurology, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH 03756, United States.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Electrocorticography studies are typically conducted in patients undergoing video EEG monitoring, but these studies are subject to confounds such as the effects of pain, recent anesthesia, analgesics, drug changes, antibiotics, and implant effects. NEW METHOD: Techniques were developed to obtain electrocorticographic (ECoG) data from freely moving subjects performing navigational tasks using the RNS® System (NeuroPace, Inc., Mountain View, CA), a brain-responsive neurostimulation medical device used to treat focal onset epilepsy, and to align data from the RNS System with cognitive task events with high precision. These subjects had not had recent surgery, and were therefore not confounded by the perioperative variables that affect video EEG studies. RESULTS: Task synchronization using the synchronization marker technique provides a quantitative measure of clock uncertainty, and can align data to task events with less than 4 ms of uncertainty. Hippocampal ECoG activity was found to change immediately before an incorrect response to a math problem compared to hippocampal activity before a correct response. In addition, subjects were found to have variable but significant changes in theta band power in the hippocampus during navigation compared to when subjects were not navigating. We found that there is theta-gamma phase-amplitude coupling in the right hippocampus while subjects stand still during a navigation task. COMPARISON WITH EXISTING METHODS: An alignment technique described in this study improves the upper bound on task-ECoG alignment uncertainty from approximately 30 ms to under 4 ms. The RNS System is one of the first platforms capable of providing untethered ambulatory ECoG recording in humans, allowing for the study of real world instead of virtual navigation. Compared to intracranial video EEG studies, studies using the RNS System platform are not subject to confounds caused by the drugs and recent surgery inherent to the perioperative environment. Furthermore, these subjects provide the opportunity to record from the same electrodes over the course of many years. CONCLUSIONS: The RNS System enables us to study human navigation with unprecedented clarity. While RNS System patients have fewer electrodes implanted than video EEG patients, the lack of external artifact and confounds from recent surgery make this system a useful tool to further human electrophysiology research.
BACKGROUND: Electrocorticography studies are typically conducted in patients undergoing video EEG monitoring, but these studies are subject to confounds such as the effects of pain, recent anesthesia, analgesics, drug changes, antibiotics, and implant effects. NEW METHOD: Techniques were developed to obtain electrocorticographic (ECoG) data from freely moving subjects performing navigational tasks using the RNS® System (NeuroPace, Inc., Mountain View, CA), a brain-responsive neurostimulation medical device used to treat focal onset epilepsy, and to align data from the RNS System with cognitive task events with high precision. These subjects had not had recent surgery, and were therefore not confounded by the perioperative variables that affect video EEG studies. RESULTS: Task synchronization using the synchronization marker technique provides a quantitative measure of clock uncertainty, and can align data to task events with less than 4 ms of uncertainty. Hippocampal ECoG activity was found to change immediately before an incorrect response to a math problem compared to hippocampal activity before a correct response. In addition, subjects were found to have variable but significant changes in theta band power in the hippocampus during navigation compared to when subjects were not navigating. We found that there is theta-gamma phase-amplitude coupling in the right hippocampus while subjects stand still during a navigation task. COMPARISON WITH EXISTING METHODS: An alignment technique described in this study improves the upper bound on task-ECoG alignment uncertainty from approximately 30 ms to under 4 ms. The RNS System is one of the first platforms capable of providing untethered ambulatory ECoG recording in humans, allowing for the study of real world instead of virtual navigation. Compared to intracranial video EEG studies, studies using the RNS System platform are not subject to confounds caused by the drugs and recent surgery inherent to the perioperative environment. Furthermore, these subjects provide the opportunity to record from the same electrodes over the course of many years. CONCLUSIONS: The RNS System enables us to study human navigation with unprecedented clarity. While RNS System patients have fewer electrodes implanted than video EEG patients, the lack of external artifact and confounds from recent surgery make this system a useful tool to further human electrophysiology research.
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