Chien-Hung Yeh1, Bassam Al-Fatly2, Andrea A Kühn2, Anders C Meidahl3, Gerd Tinkhauser4, Huiling Tan3, Peter Brown3. 1. MRC Brain Network Dynamics Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3TH, United Kingdom; Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 9DU, United Kingdom; School of Information and Electronics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China. Electronic address: nzdiw1120@gmail.com. 2. Department of Neurology, Charitè-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 10177 Berlin, Germany. 3. MRC Brain Network Dynamics Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3TH, United Kingdom; Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 9DU, United Kingdom. 4. MRC Brain Network Dynamics Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3TH, United Kingdom; Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 9DU, United Kingdom; Department of Neurology, Bern University Hospital and University of Bern, 3010 Bern, Switzerland.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: Phasic bursts of beta band synchronisation have been linked to motor impairment in Parkinson's disease (PD). However, little is known about what terminates bursts. METHODS: We used the Hilbert-Huang transform to investigate beta bursts in the local field potential recorded from the subthalamic nucleus in nine patients with PD on and off levodopa. RESULTS: The sharpness of the beta waveform extrema fell as burst amplitude dropped. Conversely, an index of phase slips between waveform extrema, and the power of concurrent theta activity increased as burst amplitude fell. Theta activity was also increased on levodopa when beta bursts were attenuated. These phenomena were associated with reduction in coupling between beta phase and high gamma activity amplitude. We discuss how these findings may suggest that beta burst termination is associated with relative desynchronization of the beta drive, increase in competing theta activity and increased phase slips in the beta activity. CONCLUSIONS: We characterise the dynamical nature of beta bursts, thereby permitting inferences about underlying activities and, in particular, about why bursts terminate. SIGNIFICANCE: Understanding the dynamical nature of beta bursts may help point to interventions that can cause their termination and potentially treat motor impairment in PD.
OBJECTIVE: Phasic bursts of beta band synchronisation have been linked to motor impairment in Parkinson's disease (PD). However, little is known about what terminates bursts. METHODS: We used the Hilbert-Huang transform to investigate beta bursts in the local field potential recorded from the subthalamic nucleus in nine patients with PD on and off levodopa. RESULTS: The sharpness of the beta waveform extrema fell as burst amplitude dropped. Conversely, an index of phase slips between waveform extrema, and the power of concurrent theta activity increased as burst amplitude fell. Theta activity was also increased on levodopa when beta bursts were attenuated. These phenomena were associated with reduction in coupling between beta phase and high gamma activity amplitude. We discuss how these findings may suggest that beta burst termination is associated with relative desynchronization of the beta drive, increase in competing theta activity and increased phase slips in the beta activity. CONCLUSIONS: We characterise the dynamical nature of beta bursts, thereby permitting inferences about underlying activities and, in particular, about why bursts terminate. SIGNIFICANCE: Understanding the dynamical nature of beta bursts may help point to interventions that can cause their termination and potentially treat motor impairment in PD.
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