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Directed Information Flow Analysis Reveals Muscle Fatigue-Related Changes in Muscle Networks and Corticomuscular Coupling
As a common neurophysiological phenomenon, voluntary muscle fatigue is accompanied by changes in both the central nervous system and peripheral muscles. Considering the effectiveness of the muscle network and the functional corticomuscular coupling (FCMC) in analyzing motor function, muscle fatigue...
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author | Liang, Tie Zhang, Qingyu Hong, Lei Liu, Xiaoguang Dong, Bin Wang, Hongrui Liu, Xiuling |
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description | As a common neurophysiological phenomenon, voluntary muscle fatigue is accompanied by changes in both the central nervous system and peripheral muscles. Considering the effectiveness of the muscle network and the functional corticomuscular coupling (FCMC) in analyzing motor function, muscle fatigue can be analyzed by quantitating the intermuscular coupling and corticomuscular coupling. However, existing coherence-based research on muscle fatigue are limited by the inability of the coherence algorithm to identify the coupling direction, which cannot further reveal the underlying neural mechanism of muscle fatigue. To address this problem, we applied the time-delayed maximal information coefficient (TDMIC) method to quantitate the directional informational interaction in the muscle network and FCMC during a right-hand stabilized grip task. Eight healthy subjects were recruited to the present study. For the muscle networks, the beta-band information flow increased significantly due to muscle fatigue, and the information flow between the synergist muscles were stronger than that between the synergist and antagonist muscles. The information flow in the muscle network mainly flows to flexor digitorum superficialis (FDS), flexor carpi ulnar (FCU), and brachioradialis (BR). For the FCMC, muscle fatigue caused a significant decrease in the beta- and gamma-band bidirectional information flow. Further analysis revealed that the beta-band information flow was significantly stronger in the descending direction [electroencephalogram (EEG) to surface electromyography (sEMG)] than that in the ascending direction (sEMG to EEG) during pre-fatigue tasks. After muscle fatigue, the beta-band information flow in the ascending direction was significantly stronger than that in the descending direction. The present study demonstrates the influence of muscle fatigue on information flow in muscle networks and FCMC. We proposes that beta-band intermuscular and corticomuscular informational interaction plays an adjusting role in autonomous movement completion under muscle fatigue. Directed information flow analysis can be used as an effective method to explore the neural mechanism of muscle fatigue on the macroscopic scale. |
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spelling | pubmed-84589412021-09-24 Directed Information Flow Analysis Reveals Muscle Fatigue-Related Changes in Muscle Networks and Corticomuscular Coupling Liang, Tie Zhang, Qingyu Hong, Lei Liu, Xiaoguang Dong, Bin Wang, Hongrui Liu, Xiuling Front Neurosci Neuroscience As a common neurophysiological phenomenon, voluntary muscle fatigue is accompanied by changes in both the central nervous system and peripheral muscles. Considering the effectiveness of the muscle network and the functional corticomuscular coupling (FCMC) in analyzing motor function, muscle fatigue can be analyzed by quantitating the intermuscular coupling and corticomuscular coupling. However, existing coherence-based research on muscle fatigue are limited by the inability of the coherence algorithm to identify the coupling direction, which cannot further reveal the underlying neural mechanism of muscle fatigue. To address this problem, we applied the time-delayed maximal information coefficient (TDMIC) method to quantitate the directional informational interaction in the muscle network and FCMC during a right-hand stabilized grip task. Eight healthy subjects were recruited to the present study. For the muscle networks, the beta-band information flow increased significantly due to muscle fatigue, and the information flow between the synergist muscles were stronger than that between the synergist and antagonist muscles. The information flow in the muscle network mainly flows to flexor digitorum superficialis (FDS), flexor carpi ulnar (FCU), and brachioradialis (BR). For the FCMC, muscle fatigue caused a significant decrease in the beta- and gamma-band bidirectional information flow. Further analysis revealed that the beta-band information flow was significantly stronger in the descending direction [electroencephalogram (EEG) to surface electromyography (sEMG)] than that in the ascending direction (sEMG to EEG) during pre-fatigue tasks. After muscle fatigue, the beta-band information flow in the ascending direction was significantly stronger than that in the descending direction. The present study demonstrates the influence of muscle fatigue on information flow in muscle networks and FCMC. We proposes that beta-band intermuscular and corticomuscular informational interaction plays an adjusting role in autonomous movement completion under muscle fatigue. Directed information flow analysis can be used as an effective method to explore the neural mechanism of muscle fatigue on the macroscopic scale. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-09-09 /pmc/articles/PMC8458941/ /pubmed/34566576 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2021.750936 Text en Copyright © 2021 Liang, Zhang, Hong, Liu, Dong, Wang and Liu. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Neuroscience Liang, Tie Zhang, Qingyu Hong, Lei Liu, Xiaoguang Dong, Bin Wang, Hongrui Liu, Xiuling Directed Information Flow Analysis Reveals Muscle Fatigue-Related Changes in Muscle Networks and Corticomuscular Coupling |
title | Directed Information Flow Analysis Reveals Muscle Fatigue-Related Changes in Muscle Networks and Corticomuscular Coupling |
title_full | Directed Information Flow Analysis Reveals Muscle Fatigue-Related Changes in Muscle Networks and Corticomuscular Coupling |
title_fullStr | Directed Information Flow Analysis Reveals Muscle Fatigue-Related Changes in Muscle Networks and Corticomuscular Coupling |
title_full_unstemmed | Directed Information Flow Analysis Reveals Muscle Fatigue-Related Changes in Muscle Networks and Corticomuscular Coupling |
title_short | Directed Information Flow Analysis Reveals Muscle Fatigue-Related Changes in Muscle Networks and Corticomuscular Coupling |
title_sort | directed information flow analysis reveals muscle fatigue-related changes in muscle networks and corticomuscular coupling |
topic | Neuroscience |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8458941/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34566576 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2021.750936 |
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