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  • Title: Cortical inhibition in motor and non-motor regions: a combined TMS-EEG study.
    Author: Fitzgerald PB, Daskalakis ZJ, Hoy K, Farzan F, Upton DJ, Cooper NR, Maller JJ.
    Journal: Clin EEG Neurosci; 2008 Jul; 39(3):112-7. PubMed ID: 18751559.
    Abstract:
    A number of studies using paired pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) have demonstrated that cortical inhibition (CI) of the motor cortex can be recorded and also gauged through surface electromyography. However, recording CI from other brain regions that are more directly related with the pathophysiology of some neurologic and psychiatric disorders (e.g., dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) in schizophrenia) was previously fraught with technical difficulties. This study was therefore designed to examine, through a combination of TMS with EEG, whether CI could be measured directly from the motor cortex, DLPFC, and another non-motor region. To index CI, long interval cortical inhibition (LICI; a TMS paradigm) was used in the motor cortex and DLPFC in 14 healthy subjects, and in the parietal lobe in 5 of those subjects. In the motor cortex, LICI resulted in a significant suppression in mean cortical evoked activity on EEG (37.31 +/- 47.51%). In the DLPFC, LICI resulted in a significant suppression (32.45 +/- 47.86%) in mean cortical evoked activity and did not correlate with LICI in the motor cortex although they did not significantly differ. In the parietal lobe, LICI resulted in significant suppression (47.76 +/- 44.70%) in mean cortical evoked activity. In conclusion, CI in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, motor cortex and parietal cortex were similar at 120% of motor threshold. These data suggest that CI can be recorded by combining TMS with EEG and may facilitate future research attempting to ascertain the role of CI in the pathophysiology of several neurologic and psychiatric disorders.
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