The role of the inferior parietal lobule in writer’s cramp

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dc.contributor.authorMerchant, Shabbir Hussain I.
dc.contributor.authorFrangos, Eleni
dc.contributor.authorParker, Jacob
dc.contributor.authorBradson, Megan
dc.contributor.authorWu, Tianxia
dc.contributor.authorVial-Undurraga, Felipe
dc.contributor.authorLeodori, Giorgio
dc.contributor.authorBushnell, M.C.
dc.contributor.authorHorovitz, Silvina G.
dc.contributor.authorHallett, Mark
dc.contributor.authorPopa, Traian
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-26T11:52:45Z
dc.date.available2021-10-26T11:52:45Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractHumans have a distinguishing ability for fine motor control that is subserved by a highly evolved cortico-motor neuronal network. The acquisition of a particular motor skill involves a long series of practice movements, trial and error, adjustment and refinement. At the cortical level, this acquisition begins in the parieto-temporal sensory regions and is subsequently consolidated and stratified in the premotor-motor cortex. Task-specific dystonia can be viewed as a corruption or loss of motor control confined to a single motor skill. Using a multimodal experimental approach combining neuroimaging and non-invasive brain stimulation, we explored interactions between the principal nodes of the fine motor control network in patients with writer’s cramp and healthy matched controls. Patients and healthy volunteers underwent clinical assessment, diffusion-weighted MRI for tractography, and functional MRI during a finger tapping task. Activation maps from the task-functional MRI scans were used for target selection and neuronavigation of the transcranial magnetic stimulation. Single- and double-pulse TMS evaluation included measurement of the inputoutput recruitment curve, cortical silent period, and amplitude of the motor evoked potentials conditioned by cortico-cortical interactions between premotor ventral (PMv)-motor cortex (M1), anterior inferior parietal lobule (aIPL)-M1, and dorsal inferior parietal lobule (dIPL)-M1 before and after inducing a long term depression-like plastic change to dIPL node with continuous thetaburst transcranial magnetic stimulation in a randomized, sham-controlled design. Baseline dIPL-M1 and aIPL-M1 cortico-cortical interactions were facilitatory and inhibitory, respectively, in healthy volunteers, whereas the interactions were converse and significantly different in writer’s cramp. Baseline PMv-M1 interactions were inhibitory and similar between the groups. The dIPL-PMv resting state functional connectivity was increased in patients compared to controls, but no differences in structural connectivity between the nodes were observed. Cortical silent period was significantly prolonged in writer’s cramp. Making a long term depression- like plastic change to dIPL node transformed the aIPL-M1 interaction to inhibitory (similar to healthy volunteers) and cancelled the PMv-M1 inhibition only in the writer’s cramp group. These findings suggest that the parietal multimodal sensory association region could have an aberrant downstream influence on the fine motor control network in writer’s cramp, which could be artificially restored to its normal function.es
dc.identifier.citationBRAIN 2020: 143; 1766–1779es
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awaa138es
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11447/4925
dc.language.isoenes
dc.subjectTask-specific dystoniaes
dc.subjectWriter’s crampes
dc.subjectFine motor controles
dc.subjectParietal lobees
dc.subjectCortical silent periodes
dc.titleThe role of the inferior parietal lobule in writer’s crampes
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