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Stimulating at the right time to recover network states in a model of the cortico-basal ganglia-thalamic circuit

Synchronization of neural oscillations is thought to facilitate communication in the brain. Neurodegenerative pathologies such as Parkinson’s disease (PD) can result in synaptic reorganization of the motor circuit, leading to altered neuronal dynamics and impaired neural communication. Treatments fo...

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Autores principales: West, Timothy O., Magill, Peter J., Sharott, Andrew, Litvak, Vladimir, Farmer, Simon F., Cagnan, Hayriye
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Publicado: Public Library of Science 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8939795/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35245281
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009887
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author West, Timothy O.
Magill, Peter J.
Sharott, Andrew
Litvak, Vladimir
Farmer, Simon F.
Cagnan, Hayriye
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Magill, Peter J.
Sharott, Andrew
Litvak, Vladimir
Farmer, Simon F.
Cagnan, Hayriye
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description Synchronization of neural oscillations is thought to facilitate communication in the brain. Neurodegenerative pathologies such as Parkinson’s disease (PD) can result in synaptic reorganization of the motor circuit, leading to altered neuronal dynamics and impaired neural communication. Treatments for PD aim to restore network function via pharmacological means such as dopamine replacement, or by suppressing pathological oscillations with deep brain stimulation. We tested the hypothesis that brain stimulation can operate beyond a simple “reversible lesion” effect to augment network communication. Specifically, we examined the modulation of beta band (14–30 Hz) activity, a known biomarker of motor deficits and potential control signal for stimulation in Parkinson’s. To do this we setup a neural mass model of population activity within the cortico-basal ganglia-thalamic (CBGT) circuit with parameters that were constrained to yield spectral features comparable to those in experimental Parkinsonism. We modulated the connectivity of two major pathways known to be disrupted in PD and constructed statistical summaries of the spectra and functional connectivity of the resulting spontaneous activity. These were then used to assess the network-wide outcomes of closed-loop stimulation delivered to motor cortex and phase locked to subthalamic beta activity. Our results demonstrate that the spatial pattern of beta synchrony is dependent upon the strength of inputs to the STN. Precisely timed stimulation has the capacity to recover network states, with stimulation phase inducing activity with distinct spectral and spatial properties. These results provide a theoretical basis for the design of the next-generation brain stimulators that aim to restore neural communication in disease.
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spelling pubmed-89397952022-03-23 Stimulating at the right time to recover network states in a model of the cortico-basal ganglia-thalamic circuit West, Timothy O. Magill, Peter J. Sharott, Andrew Litvak, Vladimir Farmer, Simon F. Cagnan, Hayriye PLoS Comput Biol Research Article Synchronization of neural oscillations is thought to facilitate communication in the brain. Neurodegenerative pathologies such as Parkinson’s disease (PD) can result in synaptic reorganization of the motor circuit, leading to altered neuronal dynamics and impaired neural communication. Treatments for PD aim to restore network function via pharmacological means such as dopamine replacement, or by suppressing pathological oscillations with deep brain stimulation. We tested the hypothesis that brain stimulation can operate beyond a simple “reversible lesion” effect to augment network communication. Specifically, we examined the modulation of beta band (14–30 Hz) activity, a known biomarker of motor deficits and potential control signal for stimulation in Parkinson’s. To do this we setup a neural mass model of population activity within the cortico-basal ganglia-thalamic (CBGT) circuit with parameters that were constrained to yield spectral features comparable to those in experimental Parkinsonism. We modulated the connectivity of two major pathways known to be disrupted in PD and constructed statistical summaries of the spectra and functional connectivity of the resulting spontaneous activity. These were then used to assess the network-wide outcomes of closed-loop stimulation delivered to motor cortex and phase locked to subthalamic beta activity. Our results demonstrate that the spatial pattern of beta synchrony is dependent upon the strength of inputs to the STN. Precisely timed stimulation has the capacity to recover network states, with stimulation phase inducing activity with distinct spectral and spatial properties. These results provide a theoretical basis for the design of the next-generation brain stimulators that aim to restore neural communication in disease. Public Library of Science 2022-03-04 /pmc/articles/PMC8939795/ /pubmed/35245281 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009887 Text en © 2022 West et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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West, Timothy O.
Magill, Peter J.
Sharott, Andrew
Litvak, Vladimir
Farmer, Simon F.
Cagnan, Hayriye
Stimulating at the right time to recover network states in a model of the cortico-basal ganglia-thalamic circuit
title Stimulating at the right time to recover network states in a model of the cortico-basal ganglia-thalamic circuit
title_full Stimulating at the right time to recover network states in a model of the cortico-basal ganglia-thalamic circuit
title_fullStr Stimulating at the right time to recover network states in a model of the cortico-basal ganglia-thalamic circuit
title_full_unstemmed Stimulating at the right time to recover network states in a model of the cortico-basal ganglia-thalamic circuit
title_short Stimulating at the right time to recover network states in a model of the cortico-basal ganglia-thalamic circuit
title_sort stimulating at the right time to recover network states in a model of the cortico-basal ganglia-thalamic circuit
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8939795/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35245281
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009887
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