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Jagadeesh B, Kumaran NA, Gunalan K, Midhuna K, Natarajan S. The Impact of the First Wave of Covid 19 on Orthopaedic Surgeries in a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital. JPRI 2021. [DOI: 10.9734/jpri/2021/v33i48b33265] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
Abstract
Background: The Covid 19 was declared a global pandemic that had a sizeable impact on the health care services in the surgical field including the orthopaedic department. There was additionally a decreased accessibility to healthcare personnel and facilities reallocated to manage the Covid patients. The study was mainly conducted to find out the impact of the first wave of COVID-19 on the orthopaedic surgeries.
Aim: The main aim of the study is to find out the alteration in the number, type of surgeries, financial implications, duration of hospital stay, delay in surgery during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Study Design: Retrospective crossectional study.
Methods: All the surgeries conducted in the orthopaedic department in the year 2019 and 2020 following first peak in March including pre-op and post-op COVID cases are included in the study. The procedure conducted, date of admission, date of surgery, date of discharge, investigations done and the cost expenses are the various parameters that are taken into consideration. The results are analysed for each year and comparisons are made using statistical methods.
Results: The comparative analysis of the data collected from the years 2019 and 2020 showed an increase in the duration of hospital stay, delay in surgery, additional expenditure, back log in the number of elective surgeries done during the Pandemic.
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Nehaapriya R, Vasudevan D, Gunalan K. A Study to Compare the Efficacy of Back Strengthening Therapy in Patients with Lower Back Pain on Analgesics to that of those on Placebo in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Chennai. JPRI 2021. [DOI: 10.9734/jpri/2021/v33i47b33221] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Aim: Isometric and Core strengthening exercises for lower back pain provides relief to patients, whereas combing it with analgesics also provides relief of pain, thereby in this study the efficacy of isometric and core strengthening exercises alone is evaluated.
Method: A cross-sectional study involving 200 subjects was conducted in the OPD of department of Orthopaedics, Saveetha Medical college and hospital. Assessment of lower back pain was done using ODI (Oswestry Disability Index) among patients receiving Isometric and Core strengthening exercises with and without analgesics for a period of 3 months.
Results: There is no significance difference in the reduction of pain among group A who received analgesics along with isometric and core strengthening exercises and group B who received only isometric and core strengthening exercises.
Conclusion: Isometric and core strengthening exercises alone is as effective as its combination with analgesics.
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Howell B, Gunalan K, McIntyre CC. A Driving-Force Predictor for Estimating Pathway Activation in Patient-Specific Models of Deep Brain Stimulation. Neuromodulation 2019; 22:403-415. [PMID: 30775834 PMCID: PMC6579680 DOI: 10.1111/ner.12929] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2018] [Revised: 11/30/2018] [Accepted: 12/20/2018] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Detailed biophysical modeling of deep brain stimulation (DBS) provides a theoretical approach to quantify the cellular response to the applied electric field. However, the most accurate models for performing such analyses, patient-specific field-cable (FC) pathway-activation models (PAMs), are so technically demanding to implement that their use in clinical research is greatly limited. Predictive algorithms can simplify PAM calculations, but they generally fail to reproduce the output of FC models when evaluated over a wide range of clinically relevant stimulation parameters. Therefore, we set out to develop a novel driving-force (DF) predictive algorithm (DF-Howell), customized to the study of DBS, which can better match FC results. METHODS We developed the DF-Howell algorithm and compared its predictions to FC PAM results, as well as to the DF-Peterson algorithm, which is currently the most accurate and generalizable DF-based method. Comparison of the various methods was quantified within the context of subthalamic DBS using activation thresholds of axons representing the internal capsule, hyperdirect pathway, and cerebellothalamic tract for various combinations of fiber diameters, stimulus pulse widths, and electrode configurations. RESULTS The DF-Howell predictor estimated activation of the three axonal pathways with less than a 6.2% mean error with respect to the FC PAM for all 21 cases tested. In 15 of the 21 cases, DF-Howell outperformed DF-Peterson in estimating pathway activation, reducing mean-errors up to 22.5%. CONCLUSIONS DF-Howell represents an accurate predictor for estimating axonal pathway activation in patient-specific DBS models, but errors still exist relative to FC PAM calculations. Nonetheless, the tractability of DF algorithms helps to reduce the technical barriers for performing accurate biophysical modeling in clinical DBS research studies.
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- Bryan Howell
- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cleveland, OH, USA
- Emory University, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cleveland, OH, USA
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Howell B, Choi KS, Gunalan K, Rajendra J, Mayberg HS, McIntyre CC. Cover Image. Hum Brain Mapp 2019. [DOI: 10.1002/hbm.24254] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Howell B, Choi KS, Gunalan K, Rajendra J, Mayberg HS, McIntyre CC. Quantifying the axonal pathways directly stimulated in therapeutic subcallosal cingulate deep brain stimulation. Hum Brain Mapp 2018; 40:889-903. [PMID: 30311317 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.24419] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2018] [Revised: 08/21/2018] [Accepted: 10/01/2018] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the subcallosal cingulate (SCC) is an emerging experimental therapy for treatment-resistant depression. New developments in SCC DBS surgical targeting are focused on identifying specific axonal pathways for stimulation that are estimated from patient-specific computational models. This connectomic-based biophysical modeling strategy has proven successful in improving the clinical response to SCC DBS therapy, but the DBS models used to date have been relatively simplistic, limiting the precision of the pathway activation estimates. Therefore, we used the most detailed patient-specific foundation for DBS modeling currently available (i.e., field-cable modeling) to evaluate SCC DBS in our most recent cohort of six subjects, all of which were responders to the therapy. We quantified activation of four major pathways in the SCC region: forceps minor (FM), cingulum bundle (CB), uncinate fasciculus (UF), and subcortical connections between the frontal pole and the thalamus or ventral striatum (FP). We then used the percentage of activated axons in each pathway as regressors in a linear model to predict the time it took patients to reach a stable response, or TSR. Our analysis suggests that stimulation of the left and right CBs, as well as FM are the most likely therapeutic targets for SCC DBS. In addition, the right CB alone predicted 84% of the variation in the TSR, and the correlation was positive, suggesting that activation of the right CB beyond a critical percentage may actually protract the recovery process.
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- Bryan Howell
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.,Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.,Department of Radiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York.,Department of Neurosurgery, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
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- Scientific and Statistical Computational Core, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.,Department of Neurosurgery, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York.,Department of Neurology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York.,Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
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Gunalan K, Howell B, McIntyre CC. Quantifying axonal responses in patient-specific models of subthalamic deep brain stimulation. Neuroimage 2018; 172:263-277. [PMID: 29331449 PMCID: PMC5910209 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.01.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2017] [Revised: 12/08/2017] [Accepted: 01/09/2018] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Medical imaging has played a major role in defining the general anatomical targets for deep brain stimulation (DBS) therapies. However, specifics on the underlying brain circuitry that is directly modulated by DBS electric fields remain relatively undefined. Detailed biophysical modeling of DBS provides an approach to quantify the theoretical responses to stimulation at the cellular level, and has established a key role for axonal activation in the therapeutic mechanisms of DBS. Estimates of DBS-induced axonal activation can then be coupled with advances in defining the structural connectome of the human brain to provide insight into the modulated brain circuitry and possible correlations with clinical outcomes. These pathway-activation models (PAMs) represent powerful tools for DBS research, but the theoretical predictions are highly dependent upon the underlying assumptions of the particular modeling strategy used to create the PAM. In general, three types of PAMs are used to estimate activation: 1) field-cable (FC) models, 2) driving force (DF) models, and 3) volume of tissue activated (VTA) models. FC models represent the "gold standard" for analysis but at the cost of extreme technical demands and computational resources. Consequently, DF and VTA PAMs, derived from simplified FC models, are typically used in clinical research studies, but the relative accuracy of these implementations is unknown. Therefore, we performed a head-to-head comparison of the different PAMs, specifically evaluating DBS of three different axonal pathways in the subthalamic region. The DF PAM was markedly more accurate than the VTA PAMs, but none of these simplified models were able to match the results of the patient-specific FC PAM across all pathways and combinations of stimulus parameters. These results highlight the limitations of using simplified predictors to estimate axonal stimulation and emphasize the need for novel algorithms that are both biophysically realistic and computationally simple.
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- Kabilar Gunalan
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.
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Anderson RW, Farokhniaee A, Gunalan K, Howell B, McIntyre CC. Action potential initiation, propagation, and cortical invasion in the hyperdirect pathway during subthalamic deep brain stimulation. Brain Stimul 2018; 11:1140-1150. [PMID: 29779963 DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2018.05.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2018] [Revised: 04/05/2018] [Accepted: 05/10/2018] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND High frequency (∼130 Hz) deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the subthalamic region is an established clinical therapy for the treatment of late stage Parkinson's disease (PD). Direct modulation of the hyperdirect pathway, defined as cortical layer V pyramidal neurons that send an axon collateral to the subthalamic nucleus (STN), has emerged as a possible component of the therapeutic mechanisms. However, numerous questions remain to be addressed on the basic biophysics of hyperdirect pathway stimulation. OBJECTIVE Quantify action potential (AP) initiation, propagation, and cortical invasion in hyperdirect neurons during subthalamic stimulation. METHODS We developed an anatomically and electrically detailed computational model of hyperdirect neuron stimulation with explicit representation of the stimulating electric field, axonal response, AP propagation, and synaptic transmission. RESULTS We found robust AP propagation throughout the complex axonal arbor of the hyperdirect neuron. Even at therapeutic DBS frequencies, stimulation induced APs could reach all of the intracortical axon terminals with ∼100% fidelity. The functional result of this high frequency axonal driving of the thousands of synaptic connections made by each directly stimulated hyperdirect neuron is a profound synaptic suppression that would effectively disconnect the neuron from the cortical circuitry. CONCLUSIONS The synaptic suppression hypothesis integrates the fundamental biophysics of electrical stimulation, axonal transmission, and synaptic physiology to explain a generic mechanism of DBS.
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- Ross W Anderson
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA.
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Lempka SF, Howell B, Gunalan K, Machado AG, McIntyre CC. Characterization of the stimulus waveforms generated by implantable pulse generators for deep brain stimulation. Clin Neurophysiol 2018; 129:731-742. [PMID: 29448149 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2018.01.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2017] [Revised: 11/10/2017] [Accepted: 01/06/2018] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To determine the circuit elements required to theoretically describe the stimulus waveforms generated by an implantable pulse generator (IPG) during clinical deep brain stimulation (DBS). METHODS We experimentally interrogated the Medtronic Activa PC DBS IPG and defined an equivalent circuit model that accurately captured the output of the IPG. We then compared the detailed circuit model of the clinical stimulus waveforms to simplified representations commonly used in computational models of DBS. We quantified the errors associated with these simplifications using theoretical activation thresholds of myelinated axons in response to DBS. RESULTS We found that the detailed IPG model generated substantial differences in activation thresholds compared to simplified models. These differences were largest for bipolar stimulation with long pulse widths. Average errors were ∼3 to 24% for voltage-controlled stimulation and ∼2 to 11% for current-controlled stimulation. CONCLUSIONS Our results demonstrate the importance of including basic circuit elements (e.g. blocking capacitors, lead wire resistance, electrode capacitance) in model analysis of DBS. SIGNIFICANCE Computational models of DBS are now commonly used in academic research, industrial technology development, and in the selection of clinical stimulation parameters. Incorporating a realistic representation of the IPG output is necessary to improve the accuracy and utility of these clinical and scientific tools.
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- Scott F Lempka
- Center for Neurological Restoration, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA; Research Service, Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, USA; Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Biointerfaces Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Center for Neurological Restoration, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA; Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Research Service, Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, USA; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
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Gunalan K, Chaturvedi A, Howell B, Duchin Y, Lempka SF, Patriat R, Sapiro G, Harel N, McIntyre CC. Creating and parameterizing patient-specific deep brain stimulation pathway-activation models using the hyperdirect pathway as an example. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0176132. [PMID: 28441410 PMCID: PMC5404874 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0176132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2016] [Accepted: 04/05/2017] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is an established clinical therapy and computational models have played an important role in advancing the technology. Patient-specific DBS models are now common tools in both academic and industrial research, as well as clinical software systems. However, the exact methodology for creating patient-specific DBS models can vary substantially and important technical details are often missing from published reports. OBJECTIVE Provide a detailed description of the assembly workflow and parameterization of a patient-specific DBS pathway-activation model (PAM) and predict the response of the hyperdirect pathway to clinical stimulation. METHODS Integration of multiple software tools (e.g. COMSOL, MATLAB, FSL, NEURON, Python) enables the creation and visualization of a DBS PAM. An example DBS PAM was developed using 7T magnetic resonance imaging data from a single unilaterally implanted patient with Parkinson's disease (PD). This detailed description implements our best computational practices and most elaborate parameterization steps, as defined from over a decade of technical evolution. RESULTS Pathway recruitment curves and strength-duration relationships highlight the non-linear response of axons to changes in the DBS parameter settings. CONCLUSION Parameterization of patient-specific DBS models can be highly detailed and constrained, thereby providing confidence in the simulation predictions, but at the expense of time demanding technical implementation steps. DBS PAMs represent new tools for investigating possible correlations between brain pathway activation patterns and clinical symptom modulation.
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- Kabilar Gunalan
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
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- Department of Radiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
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- Center for Neurological Restoration, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
- Research Service, Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
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- Department of Radiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- Department of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Radiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
- Research Service, Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
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Murphy BA, Miller JP, Gunalan K, Ajiboye AB. Contributions of Subsurface Cortical Modulations to Discrimination of Executed and Imagined Grasp Forces through Stereoelectroencephalography. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0150359. [PMID: 26963246 PMCID: PMC4786254 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0150359] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2015] [Accepted: 02/12/2016] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Stereoelectroencephalographic (SEEG) depth electrodes have the potential to record neural activity from deep brain structures not easily reached with other intracranial recording technologies. SEEG electrodes were placed through deep cortical structures including central sulcus and insular cortex. In order to observe changes in frequency band modulation, participants performed force matching trials at three distinct force levels using two different grasp configurations: a power grasp and a lateral pinch. Signals from these deeper structures were found to contain information useful for distinguishing force from rest trials as well as different force levels in some participants. High frequency components along with alpha and beta bands recorded from electrodes located near the primary motor cortex wall of central sulcus and electrodes passing through sensory cortex were found to be the most useful for classification of force versus rest although one participant did have significant modulation in the insular cortex. This study electrophysiologically corroborates with previous imaging studies that show force-related modulation occurs inside of central sulcus and insular cortex. The results of this work suggest that depth electrodes could be useful tools for investigating the functions of deeper brain structures as well as showing that central sulcus and insular cortex may contain neural signals that could be used for control of a grasp force BMI.
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- Brian A. Murphy
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH, 44106, United States of America
- Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center, 10701 East Boulevard, Cleveland, OH, 44106, United States of America
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Neurological Institute, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, 11100 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH, 44106, United States of America
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH, 44106, United States of America
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH, 44106, United States of America
- Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center, 10701 East Boulevard, Cleveland, OH, 44106, United States of America
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Reich MM, Steigerwald F, Sawalhe AD, Reese R, Gunalan K, Johannes S, Nickl R, Matthies C, McIntyre CC, Volkmann J. Short pulse width widens the therapeutic window of subthalamic neurostimulation. Ann Clin Transl Neurol 2015; 2:427-32. [PMID: 25909087 PMCID: PMC4402087 DOI: 10.1002/acn3.168] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2014] [Revised: 12/09/2014] [Accepted: 12/10/2014] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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We explored the impact of pulse durations <60 μsec on the therapeutic window of subthalamic neurostimulation in Parkinson's disease. Current thresholds for full rigidity control and first muscle contractions were evaluated at pulse durations between 20 and 120 μsec during a monopolar review session in four patients. The average therapeutic window was 2.16 mA at 60 μsec, which proportionally increased by 182% at 30 μsec, while decreasing by 46% at 120 μsec. Measured chronaxies and model data suggest, that pulse durations <60 μsec lead to a focusing of the neurostimulation effect on smaller diameter axons close to the electrode while avoiding stimulation of distant pyramidal tract fibers.
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- Martin M Reich
- Department of Neurology, Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg, Germany
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, Ohio
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Julius-Maximilans-University Würzburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Julius-Maximilans-University Würzburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Julius-Maximilans-University Würzburg, Germany
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, Ohio
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- Department of Neurology, Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg, Germany
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Sweet JA, Walter BL, Gunalan K, Chaturvedi A, McIntyre CC, Miller JP. Fiber tractography of the axonal pathways linking the basal ganglia and cerebellum in Parkinson disease: implications for targeting in deep brain stimulation. J Neurosurg 2014; 120:988-96. [PMID: 24484226 DOI: 10.3171/2013.12.jns131537] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
Abstract
OBJECT Stimulation of white matter pathways near targeted structures may contribute to therapeutic effects of deep brain stimulation (DBS) for patients with Parkinson disease (PD). Two tracts linking the basal ganglia and cerebellum have been described in primates: the subthalamopontocerebellar tract (SPCT) and the dentatothalamic tract (DTT). The authors used fiber tractography to evaluate white matter tracts that connect the cerebellum to the region of the basal ganglia in patients with PD who were candidates for DBS. METHODS Fourteen patients with advanced PD underwent 3-T MRI, including 30-directional diffusion-weighted imaging sequences. Diffusion tensor tractography was performed using 2 regions of interest: ipsilateral subthalamic and red nuclei, and contralateral cerebellar hemisphere. Nine patients underwent subthalamic DBS, and the course of each tract was observed relative to the location of the most effective stimulation contact and the volume of tissue activated. RESULTS In all patients 2 distinct tracts were identified that corresponded closely to the described anatomical features of the SPCT and DTT, respectively. The mean overall distance from the active contact to the DTT was 2.18 ± 0.35 mm, and the mean proportional distance relative to the volume of tissue activated was 1.35 ± 0.48. There was a nonsignificant trend toward better postoperative tremor control in patients with electrodes closer to the DTT. CONCLUSIONS The SPCT and the DTT may be related to the expression of symptoms in PD, and this may have implications for DBS targeting. The use of tractography to identify the DTT might assist with DBS targeting in the future.
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Gunalan K, Warren DJ, Perry JD, Normann RA, Clark GA. An automated system for measuring tip impedance and among-electrode shunting in high-electrode count microelectrode arrays. J Neurosci Methods 2009; 178:263-9. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2008.12.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2008] [Revised: 11/26/2008] [Accepted: 12/08/2008] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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