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Santoro M, Vollono C, Pazzaglia C, Di Sipio E, Giordano R, Padua L, Arendt‐Nielsen L, Valeriani M. ZNRD1‐AS
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long non‐coding RNA changes following painful laser stimulation correlate with laser‐evoked potential amplitude and habituation in healthy subjects: A pilot study. Eur J Pain 2020; 24:593-603. [DOI: 10.1002/ejp.1511] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2019] [Revised: 11/21/2019] [Accepted: 11/26/2019] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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- Unit of Neurophysiopathology Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS Rome Italy
- Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Rome Italy
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- Unit of High Intensity NeurorehabilitationFondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS Rome Italy
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- Center for Neuroplasticity and Pain (CNAP) SMI Department of Health Science and Technology Faculty of Medicine Aalborg University Aalborg Denmark
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- Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Rome Italy
- Unit of High Intensity NeurorehabilitationFondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS Rome Italy
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- Center for Neuroplasticity and Pain (CNAP) SMI Department of Health Science and Technology Faculty of Medicine Aalborg University Aalborg Denmark
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- Neurology Unit, Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesú IRCCSPiazza di Sant'Onofrio Rome Italy
- Center for Sensory-Motor Interaction Aalborg University Aalborg Denmark
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Fila M, Stasiołek M, Markiewicz A, Bogucki A. Functional Evaluation of Small Fiber Pathways in Primary Restless Legs Syndrome: Aδ Pathway Study. J Clin Sleep Med 2017; 13:1455-1462. [PMID: 29117885 DOI: 10.5664/jcsm.6848] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2017] [Accepted: 10/04/2017] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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STUDY OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to provide a neurophysiological evaluation of the function of large and small fibers, particularly the peripheral part of the thermonociceptive Aδ pathway in patients with primary restless legs syndrome (RLS). METHODS The main evaluation was based on an analysis of the parameters of laser-evoked potentials (LEPs), N2 and P2 components, and an assessment of thermonociceptive thresholds (pain thresholds; PThs). Routine nerve conduction studies (NCS) were also performed. RESULTS No essential or important differences of clinical significance were observed in the parameters of large fiber conduction between the study and the control groups. Prolonged latencies of N2 and P2 potentials were obtained during foot stimulation in patients with primary RLS when compared to controls (N2, P2-lower right limb, and N2-lower left limb). We also observed higher amplitudes of LEPs evaluated as P2 and N2-P2 potentials in patients with primary RLS in comparison with the control group. Significantly higher (normal distribution P < .05) thermonociceptive thresholds in both lower and upper limbs were found in the RLS group. CONCLUSIONS On the basis of the analysis of LEPs and their comparison with the respective results from the control group, the presence of functional disability of the thermonociceptive Aδ pathway was confirmed in patients with primary RLS. The results indicated the presence of changes in the conduction of small fiber pathways in the pathomechanism of idiopathic RLS.
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- Michał Fila
- Clinical Neurophysiology Unit, Neurology Department, Polish Mother's Memorial Hospital - Research Institute, Lodz, Poland
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- Neurology Department, Polish Mother's Memorial Hospital - Research Institute, Lodz, Poland
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- Neurology Department, Polish Mother's Memorial Hospital - Research Institute, Lodz, Poland
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- Department of Extrapyramidal Diseases, Central University Hospital, Medical University of Lodz, Poland
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Contact heat-evoked potentials as a useful means in patients with Guillain–Barré syndrome. Neurol Sci 2014; 35:1209-14. [DOI: 10.1007/s10072-014-1682-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2013] [Accepted: 02/11/2014] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Baumgärtner U, Vogel H, Ohara S, Treede RD, Lenz F. Dipole source analyses of laser evoked potentials obtained from subdural grid recordings from primary somatic sensory cortex. J Neurophysiol 2011; 106:722-30. [PMID: 21593389 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00135.2011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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The cortical potentials evoked by cutaneous application of a laser stimulus (laser evoked potentials, LEP) often include potentials in the primary somatic sensory cortex (S1), which may be located within the subdivisions of S1 including Brodmann areas 3A, 3B, 1, and 2. The precise location of the LEP generator may clarify the pattern of activation of human S1 by painful stimuli. We now test the hypothesis that the generators of the LEP are located in human Brodmann area 1 or 3A within S1. Local field potential (LFP) source analysis of the LEP was obtained from subdural grids over sensorimotor cortex in two patients undergoing epilepsy surgery. The relationship of LEP dipoles was compared with dipoles for somatic sensory potentials evoked by median nerve stimulation (SEP) and recorded in area 3B (see Baumgärtner U, Vogel H, Ohara S, Treede RD, Lenz FA. J Neurophysiol 104: 3029-3041, 2010). Both patients had an early radial dipole in S1. The LEP dipole was located medial, anterior, and deep to the SEP dipole, which suggests a nociceptive dipole in area 3A. One patient had a later tangential dipole with positivity posterior, which is opposite to the orientation of the SEP dipole in area 3B. The reversal of orientations between modalities is consistent with the cortical surface negative orientation resulting from superficial termination of thalamocortical neurons that receive inputs from the spinothalamic tract. Therefore, the present results suggest that the LEP may result in a radial dipole consistent with a generator in area 3A and a putative later tangential generator in area 3B.
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- Ulf Baumgärtner
- Center for Biomedicine and Medical Technology Mannheim (CBTM), Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
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A supramodal representation of the body surface. Neuropsychologia 2010; 49:1194-1201. [PMID: 21199662 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.12.040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2010] [Revised: 12/01/2010] [Accepted: 12/23/2010] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The ability to accurately localize both tactile and painful sensations on the body is one of the most important functions of the somatosensory system. Most accounts of localization refer to the systematic spatial relation between skin receptors and cortical neurons. The topographic organization of somatosensory neurons in the brain provides a map of the sensory surface. However, systematic distortions in perceptual localization tasks suggest that localizing a somatosensory stimulus involves more than simply identifying specific active neural populations within a somatotopic map. Thus, perceptual localization may depend on both afferent inputs and other unknown factors. In four experiments, we investigated whether localization biases vary according to the specific skin regions and subset of afferent fibers stimulated. We represented localization errors as a 'perceptual map' of skin locations. We compared the perceptual maps of stimuli that activate Aβ (innocuous touch), Aδ (pinprick pain), and C fibers (non-painful heat) on both the hairy and glabrous skin of the left hand. Perceptual maps exhibited systematic distortions that strongly depended on the skin region stimulated. We found systematic distal and radial (i.e., towards the thumb) biases in localization of touch, pain, and heat on the hand dorsum. A less consistent proximal bias was found on the palm. These distortions were independent of the population of afferent fibers stimulated, and also independent of the response modality used to report localization. We argue that these biases are likely to have a central origin, and result from a supramodal representation of the body surface.
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Kobayashi K, Winberry J, Liu CC, Treede RD, Lenz FA. A painful cutaneous laser stimulus evokes responses from single neurons in the human thalamic principal somatic sensory nucleus ventral caudal (Vc). J Neurophysiol 2009; 101:2210-7. [PMID: 19244350 DOI: 10.1152/jn.91347.2008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Cutaneous application of painful radiant heat laser pulses evokes potentials (laser-evoked potentials) that can be recorded from scalp or intracranial electrodes. We have now tested the hypothesis that the response of thalamic neurons to a cutaneous laser stimulus occurs at latencies predicted by the conduction delay between the periphery and the thalamus. We have carried out recordings from human thalamic neurons in the principal sensory nucleus (ventral caudal) in patients undergoing awake surgery for the treatment of tremor. The results demonstrate that many neurons respond to the laser with early and/or late latency peaks of activity, consistent with conduction of the response to the laser stimulus through pathways from Adelta and C fibers to the thalamus. These peaks were of short duration, perhaps due to the somatotopic- and modality-specific arrangements of afferent pathways to the thalamus. The responses of these thalamic neurons to the laser stimulus sometimes included low-threshold spike (LTS) bursts of action potentials, consistent with previous studies of different painful stimuli. A prior study has demonstrated that spike trains characterized by common LTS bursts such as the intermediate (I) category spontaneously change their category more commonly than do those without LTS bursts (NG: nongrouped category) during changes in the cognitive task. Spike trains of laser-responsive neurons were more common in the I category, whereas those of laser nonresponsive neurons were more common in the NG category. Therefore neuronal spike trains in the I category may mediate shifts in endogenous or cognitive pain-related behavior.
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- K Kobayashi
- Department of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Meyer Building 8-181, 600 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21287-7713, USA
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Boyle Y, El-Deredy W, Montes EM, Bentley DE, Jones AK. Selective modulation of nociceptive processing due to noise distraction. Pain 2008; 138:630-640. [DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2008.02.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2007] [Revised: 01/28/2008] [Accepted: 02/20/2008] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Babiloni C, Del Percio C, Brancucci A, Capotosto P, Le Pera D, Marzano N, Valeriani M, Romani GL, Arendt-Nielsen L, Rossini PM. Pre-stimulus alpha power affects vertex N2-P2 potentials evoked by noxious stimuli. Brain Res Bull 2007; 75:581-90. [PMID: 18355634 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2007.09.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2007] [Revised: 09/19/2007] [Accepted: 09/26/2007] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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It is well known that scalp potentials evoked by nonpainful visual and auditory stimuli are enhanced in amplitude when preceded by pre-stimulus low-amplitude alpha rhythms. This study tested the hypothesis that the same holds for the amplitude of vertex N2-P2 potentials evoked by brief noxious laser stimuli, an issue of interest for clinical perspective. EEG data were recorded in 10 subjects from 30 electrodes during laser noxious stimulation. The artifact-free vertex N2-P2 complex was spatially enhanced by surface Laplacian transformation. Pre-stimulus alpha power was computed at three alpha sub-bands according to subject's individual alpha frequency peak (i.e. about 6-8Hz for alpha 1, 8-10Hz for alpha 2 and 10-12Hz for alpha 3 sub-band). Individual EEG single trials were divided in two sub-groups. The strong-alpha sub-group (high band power) included halfway of all EEG single trials, namely those having the highest pre-stimulus alpha power. Weak-alpha sub-group (low band power) included the remaining trials. Averaging procedure provided laser evoked potentials for both trial sub-groups. No significant effect was found for alpha 1 and alpha 2 sub-bands. Conversely, compared to strong-alpha 3 sub-group, weak-alpha 3 sub-group showed vertex N2-P2 potentials having significantly higher amplitude (p<0.05). These results extend to the later phases of pain processing systems the notion that generation mechanisms of pre-stimulus alpha rhythms and (laser) evoked potentials are intrinsically related and subjected to fluctuating "noise". That "noise" could explain the trial-by-trial variability of laser evoked potentials and perception.
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- Claudio Babiloni
- Dipartimento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Università La Sapienza, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, Rome, Italy
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Wang X, Inui K, Kakigi R. Early cortical activities evoked by noxious stimulation in humans. Exp Brain Res 2007; 180:481-9. [PMID: 17390127 DOI: 10.1007/s00221-007-0878-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2006] [Accepted: 01/10/2007] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Lasers can selectively activate the nociceptors of A-delta fibers. Since nociceptors in the skin are activated via temperature conduction by the laser beam, a latency jittering of cortical responses among trials would affect results obtained with a conventional averaging (C-AVE) technique. We therefore used a new method, latency-adjusted averaging (L-AVE), to investigate cortical responses to noxious laser stimulation in normal subjects. L-AVE was done by averaging trials after adjusting the latency so that the peak latency of an activity in the temporal region of all trials matched on the time axis. Both in C-AVE and in L-AVE, clear activations were found in the contralateral primary somatosensory cortex (SI) and bilateral parasylvian regions, whose activities peaked 163-181 ms after the stimulation. In addition to these three main activities, weak activities peaking at around 109-119 ms could be identified in only L-AVE in similar cortical regions. Since the direction of the source differed between early and main activities, we considered that the early weak activities were cancelled out by the later main activities with an opposite orientation. The results suggested that early cortical processing of noxious information occurs earlier than previous neurophysiological studies have estimated and that the temporal sequence of activations should be reconsidered.
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- Xiaohong Wang
- Department of Integrative Physiology, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Myodaiji, Okazaki, 444-8585, Japan.
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Babiloni C, Brancucci A, Capotosto P, Del Percio C, Romani GL, Arendt-Nielsen L, Rossini PM. Different modalities of painful somatosensory stimulations affect anticipatory cortical processes: A high-resolution EEG study. Brain Res Bull 2007; 71:475-84. [PMID: 17259016 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2006.10.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2006] [Revised: 10/23/2006] [Accepted: 10/23/2006] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Pain sensation is characterized by multiple features that allow to differentiate pricking, burning, aching, stinging, and electrical shock. These features are sub-served by neural pathways that might give flexibility and selectivity to the cerebral anticipatory processes. In this line, the present high-resolution electroencephalography (EEG) study tested the hypothesis that the anticipatory cortical processes are stronger for painful thermal (biologically relevant) than electrical ("artificial") stimuli with similar intensity. EEG data (128 electrodes) were recorded in normal subjects during the expectancy of painful electrical or laser stimuli (visual omitted stimulus paradigm; interval between two painful stimuli: 16s), delivered over the median nerve region of the right arm (nonpainful stimuli as controls). After each stimulus, the subject reported the perceived stimulus intensity. Surface Laplacian estimation of the EEG data spatially enhanced the anticipatory stimulus-preceding negativity (SPN), which reflects motivational relevance of the stimulus. Subjects perceived no difference in the intensity of the electrical versus laser stimuli in both painful and nonpainful conditions. However, the anticipatory SPN appeared over large scalp regions before painful laser but not electrical stimulation. The same was true for the nonpainful stimulations. The present results suggest that the motivational anticipatory cortical processes are induced by nonpainful and painful biologically/ecologically relevant laser stimuli rather than by "artificial" electrical stimuli with similar intensity.
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- Claudio Babiloni
- Dipartimento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Università La Sapienza, Rome, Italy.
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Sami SAK, Rössel P, Dimcevski G, Nielsen KD, Funch-Jensen P, Valeriani M, Arendt-Nielsen L, Drewes AM. Cortical changes to experimental sensitization of the human esophagus. Neuroscience 2006; 140:269-79. [PMID: 16631315 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2006.02.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2005] [Revised: 01/17/2006] [Accepted: 02/05/2006] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Topographical organization in the neocortex shows experience-dependent plasticity. We hypothesized that experimental sensitization of the esophagus results in changes of the topographical distribution of the evoked potentials and the corresponding dipole source activities to painful stimulation. An endoscopic method was used to deliver 35 electrical stimuli at the pain threshold to a fixed area of the mucosa in 10 healthy volunteer men and women. The stimulations were repeated after 30 min (reproducibility experiment), and after 60 min following perfusion of 200 ml 0.1 N hydrochloric acid (sensitization experiment). During stimulation the electroencephalogram was recorded from 64 surface electrodes. The sensitization resulted in a decrease in the pain threshold (F=6.2; P=0.004). The topographic distribution of the evoked potentials showed reproducible negative (N1, N2) and positive (P1, P2) components. After acid perfusion a reduced latency and a change in localization was seen for the P1 subdivided into frontal and occipital components (F=29.5, P<0.001; F=53.7, P<0.001). Furthermore the sensitization resulted in a reduction of the latency for P2 (F=6.2, P=0.009). The source analysis showed consistent dipolar activity in the bilateral opercular-insular cortex before and after acid perfusion. For the anterior cingulate dipole there was a reduction in latency (P=0.03) and a posterior shift (P=0.0002) following acid perfusion. The findings indicate that short-term sensitization of the esophagus results in central neuroplastic changes involving the cingulate gyrus, which also showed pathological activation in functional diseases of the gut, thus reflecting the importance of this region in visceral pain and hyperalgesia.
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- S A K Sami
- Center for Sensory-Motor Interactions, Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
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Kanda M. Event-related components of laser evoked potentials (LEPs) in pain stimulation: recognition of infrequency, location, and intensity of pain. SUPPLEMENTS TO CLINICAL NEUROPHYSIOLOGY 2006; 59:61-6. [PMID: 16893094 DOI: 10.1016/s1567-424x(09)70013-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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- Masutaro Kanda
- Department of Brain Pathophysiology, Human Brain Research Center Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.
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Kulkarni B, Bentley DE, Elliott R, Youell P, Watson A, Derbyshire SWG, Frackowiak RSJ, Friston KJ, Jones AKP. Attention to pain localization and unpleasantness discriminates the functions of the medial and lateral pain systems. Eur J Neurosci 2005; 21:3133-42. [PMID: 15978022 DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2005.04098.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 226] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Functional imaging studies have identified a matrix of structures in the brain that respond to noxious stimuli. Within this matrix, a division of function between sensory-discriminative and affective responses has so far been demonstrated by manipulating either pain intensity or unpleasantness under hypnosis in two different normal volunteer groups studied on separate occasions. Our study used positron emission tomography (PET) to demonstrate this division of function under more natural conditions in a healthy group of volunteers, using a CO(2) laser to provide nociceptive stimuli that selectively activate A-delta and C-fibres without contamination by touch sensations. We measured the differential cerebral responses to noxious and innocuous laser stimuli during conditions of selective attention to either the unpleasantness or location of the stimuli. Attention to location increased responses in the contralateral (right) primary somatosensory and inferior parietal cortices. This result implies that these components of the lateral pain system are concerned mainly with the localization of pain. In contrast, attention to unpleasantness increased responses in bilateral perigenual cingulate and orbitofrontal cortices, contralateral (right) amygdala, ipsilateral (left) hypothalamus, posterior insula, M1 and frontal pole. These areas comprise key components of the medial pain and neuroendocrine systems and the results suggest that they have a role in the affective response to pain. Our results indicate the importance of attentional effects on the pattern of nociceptive processing in the brain. They also provide the first clear demonstration, within a single experiment, of a major division of function within the neural pain matrix.
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- B Kulkarni
- Human Pain Research Group, Clinical Sciences Building, Hope Hospital, Salford, M6 8HD, UK.
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Bentley DE, Watson A, Treede RD, Barrett G, Youell PD, Kulkarni B, Jones AKP. Differential effects on the laser evoked potential of selectively attending to pain localisation versus pain unpleasantness. Clin Neurophysiol 2004; 115:1846-56. [PMID: 15261863 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2004.03.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/03/2004] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To determine the effects on the laser evoked potential (LEP) of selectively attending to affective (unpleasantness) versus sensory-discriminative (localisation) components of pain. METHODS LEPs, elicited by painful CO2 laser stimulation of two areas of the right forearm, were recorded from 62 electrodes in 21 healthy volunteers, during three tasks that were matched for generalised attention: Localisation (report stimulus location), Unpleasantness (report stimulus unpleasantness), Control (report pain detection). LEP components are named by polarity, latency, and electrode. RESULTS N300-T7 peak amplitude was significantly greater during Localisation than Unpleasantness. The difference in N300-T7 amplitude between Localisation and Control approached significance, suggesting an increased amplitude in Localisation compared with Control, rather than a reduced amplitude in Unpleasantness. Peak amplitude, latency, and topography of N300-FCz, P450, P600-800 (early P3) and P800-1000 (late P3) did not differ significantly between tasks. CONCLUSIONS These results suggest that the N300-T7 LEP peak reflects the activity of cerebral generators involved in the localisation of pain. The topography of N300-T7 is consistent with a source in contralateral secondary somatosensory cortex/insula and maybe primary somatosensory cortex. SIGNIFICANCE This study confirms a role of the lateral pain system in the localisation of pain, and distinguishes it from stimulus novelty or attention.
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- D E Bentley
- Human Pain Research Group, University of Manchester Rheumatic Diseases Centre, Clinical Sciences Building, Hope Hospital, Salford M6 8HD, UK.
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Drewes AM, Rössel P, Le Pera D, Arendt-Nielsen L, Valeriani M. Dipolar source modelling of brain potentials evoked by painful electrical stimulation of the human sigmoid colon. Neurosci Lett 2004; 358:45-8. [PMID: 15016431 DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2003.12.101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2003] [Revised: 12/18/2003] [Accepted: 12/30/2003] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The aim of the study was to compare the cerebral generators following painful stimulation of the sigmoid colon and the abdominal skin in 11 healthy subjects. The evoked potentials (EPs) were recorded from 31 surface electrodes following painful electrical stimuli of the sigmoid colon, and of the referred pain area on the abdomen. Current dipole models estimating the EPs amplitude and topography were calculated. For colon stimulation, the earliest cortical activities were described by dipoles in the bilateral insula and in the anterior cingulate cortex, while both secondary somatosensory areas were activated later. When the skin was stimulated, early bilateral dipoles in the primary and secondary somatosensory areas were estimated, followed by a dipole in the frontal region. This suggests that painful cutaneous and visceral stimuli are processed differently in the brain.
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- Asbjørn Mohr Drewes
- Center for Visceral Biomechanics and Pain, Department of Medical Gastroenterology, Aalborg Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark.
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Qiu Y, Inui K, Wang X, Nguyen BT, Tran TD, Kakigi R. Effects of distraction on magnetoencephalographic responses ascending through C-fibers in humans. Clin Neurophysiol 2004; 115:636-46. [PMID: 15036060 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2003.10.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/14/2003] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Using magnetoencephalography (MEG), we evaluated the cerebral regions relating to second pain perception ascending through C-fibers and investigated the effect of distraction on each region. METHODS Thirteen normal subjects participated in this study. CO2 laser pulses were delivered to the dorsum of the left hand to selectively activate C-fibers. The MEG responses were analyzed using a multi-dipole model. RESULTS (1) primary somatosensory cortex (SI), and (2) secondary somatosensory cortex (SII)--insula were the main generators for the primary component, 1M, whose mean peak latency was 744 ms. In addition to (1) and (2), (3) cingulate cortex and (4) medial temporal area (MT) were also activated for the subsequent component, 2M, whose mean peak latency was 947 ms. During a mental calculation task (Distraction), all 6 sources were significantly reduced in amplitude, but the SII-insula (P < 0.01) and cingulate cortex (P < 0.001) were more sensitive than the SI (P < 0.05) and MT (P < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS We confirmed that SI in the contralateral hemisphere and SII-insula, cingulate cortex and MT in bilateral hemispheres play a major role in second pain perception, and all sites were much affected by a change of attention, indicating that these regions are related to the cognitive aspect of second pain perception. SIGNIFICANCE The SI, SII, cingulate and MT were activated during the C-fiber-related MEG response, and responses in these regions were significantly diminished during mental distraction.
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- Yunhai Qiu
- Department of Integrative Physiology, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Myodaiji, Okazaki 444-8585, Japan.
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Vogel H, Port JD, Lenz FA, Solaiyappan M, Krauss G, Treede RD. Dipole source analysis of laser-evoked subdural potentials recorded from parasylvian cortex in humans. J Neurophysiol 2003; 89:3051-60. [PMID: 12783950 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00772.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The location of the human nociceptive area(s) near the Sylvian fissure is still controversial in spite of evidence from imaging and evoked potential studies that noxious heat stimuli activate somatosensory areas in that region. Some studies have suggested the secondary somatosensory cortex (SII) on the upper bank of the Sylvian fissure posterior to the central sulcus, others the anterior insula or parietal area 7b. In this study, we applied dipole source analysis techniques to laser-evoked potentials (LEPs) that were recorded from subdural grid electrodes in three patients. As a functional marker, auditory-evoked potentials (AEPs) with a generator on the opposite bank of the Sylvian fissure were recorded from the same electrodes. The LEP global field power (GFP), a measure of spatial variance, showed a first peak at about 150 ms latency, corresponding to the latency of the N1 recorded from the scalp. In contrast to scalp recordings, the amplitude of the first GFP peak recorded from the grid was larger than the second peak (P2). This finding suggests that the generator of N1, but not that of later LEP components, was close to the subdural grids. When a regional source was fitted to the first GFP peak, its location was within the frontoparietal operculum in all patients. On average, the LEP source was 13 mm anterior, 6 mm superior, and 2 mm medial of the AEP source. This relative location also suggests a source within the frontoparietal operculum overlying the insula. At the latency of the first GFP peak, source orientation pointed inward, suggesting a generator within the inner vertical surface of the operculum. Somatotopy was assessed in one patient and was consistent with that of the projection area of the presumed nociceptive thalamic nucleus posterior part of the ventromedial nucleus, but differed from that of SII. These findings suggest that the nociceptive area in human parasylvian cortex that is activated most rapidly by noxious heat pulses may be separate from the tactile SII area.
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- Hagen Vogel
- Institute of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Johannes Gutenberg University, D-55099 Mainz, Germany
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Kanda M, Mima T, Oga T, Matsuhashi M, Toma K, Hara H, Satow T, Nagamine T, Rothwell JC, Shibasaki H. Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) of the sensorimotor cortex and medial frontal cortex modifies human pain perception. Clin Neurophysiol 2003; 114:860-6. [PMID: 12738431 DOI: 10.1016/s1388-2457(03)00034-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Although recent neuroimaging studies have shown that painful stimuli can produce activity in multiple cortical areas, the question remains as to the role of each area in particular aspects of human pain perception. To solve this problem we used transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) as an 'interference approach' tool to test the consequence on pain perception of disrupting activity in several areas of cortex known to be activated by painful input. METHODS Weak CO(2) laser stimuli at an intensity around the threshold for pain were given to the dorsum of the left hand in 9 normal subjects. At variable delays (50, 150, 250, 350 ms) after the onset of the laser stimulus, pairs of TMS pulses (dTMS: interpulse interval of 50 ms, and stimulus intensity of 120% resting motor threshold) were applied in separate blocks of trials over either the right sensorimotor cortex (SMI), midline occipital cortex (OCC), second somatosensory cortex (SII), or medial frontal cortex (MFC). Subjects were instructed to judge whether or not the stimulus was painful and to point to the stimulated spot on a drawing of subject's hand. RESULTS Subjects judged that the stimulus was painful on more trials than control when dTMS was delivered over SMI at 150-200 ms after the laser stimulus; the opposite occurred when dTMS was delivered over MFC at 50-100 ms. dTMS over the SII or OCC failed to alter the pain threshold. CONCLUSIONS These results suggest that TMS to SMI can facilitate whereas stimulation over MFC suppresses central processing of pain perception. Since there was no effect of dTMS at any of the scalp sites on the localization task, the cortical locus for point localization of pain may be different from that for perception of pain intensity or may involve a more complex mechanism than the latter. SIGNIFICANCE This is the first report that TMS of SMI facilitates while that of MFC suppresses the central processing of pain perception. This raises the possibility of using TMS as a therapeutic device to control pain.
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- Masutaro Kanda
- Human Brain Research Center, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine and Faculty of Medicine, 54 Kawahara-cho, Shogoin, Sakyo-ku, Japan
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Kanda M, Matsuhashi M, Sawamoto N, Oga T, Mima T, Nagamine T, Shibasaki H. Cortical potentials related to assessment of pain intensity with visual analogue scale (VAS). Clin Neurophysiol 2002; 113:1013-24. [PMID: 12088694 DOI: 10.1016/s1388-2457(02)00125-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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OBJECTIVES To elucidate brain mechanisms underlying the psychophysical processes to measure pain intensity, pain-related somatosensory evoked potentials (pain SEPs) following painful CO(2) laser stimulation were studied while employing a task to measure intensity of pain on a visual analogue scale (VAS). METHODS In 12 healthy subjects, 3 kinds of CO(2) laser stimuli, different in intensity as determined by irradiation duration of 40, 60 and 80ms, were randomly delivered to the left hand dorsum at an irregular interval of 4-6s. The subject was requested to assess the intensity of each pain stimulus and point to the VAS scale by moving a pointer held with the right hand according to the subjective feeling of pain sensation (pain intensity assessment (PIA) condition). For the control condition, the subject moved the pointer to the midpoint of the VAS line irrespective of the pain intensity (control motor task condition). Electroencephalograms were recorded from 21 scalp electrodes, referenced to the linked earlobes, and were averaged time-locked to the stimulus onset for each stimulus duration as well as for each task condition. RESULTS The VAS scores were 2.8+/-0.5/10 for the stimulus of 40ms duration, 4.8+/-0.8/10 for 60ms and 6.1+/-0.9/10 for 80ms, and showed a highly significant positive correlation with the stimulus duration. Following the early components of pain SEPs which were affected by stimulus duration but not modulated by task conditions, a surface-positive peak at latency of 612-642ms was identified exclusively under the PIA condition regardless of the stimulus intensity and was called 'intensity assessment-related potential (IAP)'. The IAP was maximal at the midline parietal area and symmetrically distributed over the scalp. Neither latency nor amplitude of the IAP was significantly different among the 3 different stimulus intensities. CONCLUSIONS IAP is an event-related potential (ERP) associated with assessment of pain intensity but not influenced by pain intensity itself. From its scalp distribution, it can be assumed that the assessment of pain intensity involves multiple areas in both hemispheres.
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- Masutaro Kanda
- Department of Brain Pathophysiology, Human Brain Research Center, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine and Faculty of Medicine, Shogoin, Sakyo-ku, Japan
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Opsommer E, Weiss T, Miltner WH, Plaghki L. Scalp topography of ultralate (C-fibres) evoked potentials following thulium YAG laser stimuli to tiny skin surface areas in humans. Clin Neurophysiol 2001; 112:1868-74. [PMID: 11595145 DOI: 10.1016/s1388-2457(01)00622-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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AIM To investigate (1) the scalp topography of ultralate laser evoked potentials (LEPs) related to C-fibre activation, which can directly be obtained by thulium YAG (Tm YAG) laser stimulation of tiny skin surface areas (about 0.23 mm(2)) and (2) the influence of the performance of a motor task on ultralate LEPs. METHODS Laser stimuli were applied to the dorsum of the left hand. LEPs were recorded with 58 scalp electrodes from 9 healthy subjects in two different conditions, with and without a reaction time (RT) task (press a button upon detection). RESULTS On high resolution electroenchephalogram recordings, ultralate LEPs were characterized by a broad positive component (peak latency: 1133+/-91 ms) with maximum amplitude about the vertex. Moreover, the performance of a RT task had no influence on latency, amplitude and topographical patterns of two maps chosen at the positive peak latency in ultralate LEPs. Nevertheless, a negative inflexion (latency 1300 ms) appeared after the positive component in the task condition possibly reflecting movement-related potentials. CONCLUSION Tm YAG laser stimulation of tiny skin surface areas allows recording the dynamic scalp topography of ultralate (C-fibres) LEPs, with or without the performance of a RT task.
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- E Opsommer
- Faculty of Medicine, Université catholique de Louvain, Avenue Mounier 53/READ 5375, B-1200, Brussels, Belgium.
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