Reshaping cortical activity with subthalamic stimulation in Parkinson’s disease during finger tapping and gait mapped by near infrared spectroscopy

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Abstract

Exploration of motor cortex activity is essential to understanding the pathophysiology in Parkinson’s Disease (PD), but only simple motor tasks can be investigated using a fMRI or PET. We aim to investigate the cortical activity of PD patients during a complex motor task (gait) to verify the impact of deep brain stimulation in the subthalamic nucleus (DBS-STN) by using Near-Infrared-Spectroscopy (NIRS). NIRS is a neuroimaging method of brain cortical activity using low-energy optical radiation to detect local changes in (de)oxyhemoglobin concentration. We used a multichannel portable NIRS during finger tapping (FT) and gait. To determine the signal activity, our methodology consisted of a pre-processing phase for the raw signal, followed by statistical analysis based on a general linear model. Processed recordings from 9 patients were statistically compared between the on and off states of DBS-STN. DBS-STN led to an increased activity in the contralateral motor cortex areas during FT. During gait, we observed a concentration of activity towards the cortex central area in the “stimulation-on” state. Our study shows how NIRS can be used to detect functional changes in the cortex of patients with PD with DBS-STN and indicates its future use for applications unsuited for PET and a fMRI.

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Klempir, O., Krupicka, R., Mehnert, J., Cejka, V., Polakova, K., Brozova, H., … Jech, R. (2019). Reshaping cortical activity with subthalamic stimulation in Parkinson’s disease during finger tapping and gait mapped by near infrared spectroscopy. Journal of Applied Biomedicine, 17(3), 157–166. https://doi.org/10.32725/jab.2019.014

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