Neuronal activity of motor cortex during elaboration of a motor reflex conditioned to electrical stimulation of the thalamic ventrolateral nucleus

1982 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 462-470
Author(s):  
V. I. Maiorov ◽  
B. I. Kotlyar ◽  
O. I. Ivashchenko
2012 ◽  
Vol 90 (6) ◽  
pp. 370-378
Author(s):  
Christophe Nuti ◽  
François Vassal ◽  
Patrick Mertens ◽  
Jean-Jacques Lemaire ◽  
Michel Magnin ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.S. Ananiev ◽  
D.A. Pavlov ◽  
R.N. Yakupov ◽  
V.A. Golodnova ◽  
M.V. Balykin

The study was conducted on 22 healthy men aged 18-23 years. The primary motor cortex innervating the lower limb was stimulated with transcranial magnetic stimulation. Using transcutaneous electrical stimulation of the spinal cord, evoked motor responses of the muscles of the lower extremities were initiated when electrodes were applied cutaneous between the spinous processes in the Th11-Th12 projection. Research protocol: Determination of the thresholds of BMO of the muscles of the lower extremities during TESCS; determination of the BMO threshold of the TA muscle in TMS; determination of the thresholds of the BMO of the muscles of the lower extremities during TESCS against the background of 80% and 90% TMS. It was found that magnetic stimulation of the motor cortex of the brain leads to an increase in the excitability of the neural structures of the lumbar thickening of the spinal cord and an improvement in neuromuscular interactions. Key words: transcranial magnetic stimulation, transcutaneous electrical stimulation of the spinal cord, neural networks, excitability, neuromuscular interactions.


1988 ◽  
Vol 439 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 31-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuji Aou ◽  
Yutaka Oomura ◽  
Charles D. Woody ◽  
Hitoo Nishino

Author(s):  
Xuguang Liu ◽  
Neil M. Branston ◽  
Masamitsu Kawauchi ◽  
David A. Jellinek ◽  
Lindsay Symon

1991 ◽  
Vol 66 (6) ◽  
pp. 2084-2094 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. W. Blair ◽  
A. R. Evans

1. Medullary raphespinal neurons antidromically activated from the T2-T5 segments were tested for responses to electrical stimulation of cervical vagal and thoracic sympathetic afferents (by stimulating the left stellate ganglion), somatic probing, auditory stimuli, and visual stimuli in cats anesthetized with alpha-chloralose. A total of 99 neurons in the raphe nuclei were studied; the locations of 76 cells were histologically confirmed. Neurons were located in raphe magnus (RM, 65%), raphe obscurus (RO, 32%), and raphe pallidus (RPa, 4%). The mean conduction velocity of these neurons was 62 +/- 2.9 (SE) m/s with a range of 1.1-121 m/s. 2. A total of 60/99 tested neurons responded to electrical stimulation of sympathetic afferents. Quantitation of responses was obtained for 55 neurons. With one exception, all responsive neurons were excited and exhibited an early burst of spikes with a mean latency of 16 +/- 1.2 ms. From a spontaneous discharge rate of 5.2 +/- 1.2 spikes/s, neuronal activity increased by 2.9 +/- 0.3 spikes/stimulus. In addition to an early peak, 15 neurons (25%) exhibited a late burst of spikes with a latency of 182 +/- 12.9 ms; neuronal activity increased by 5.0 +/- 1.3 spikes/stimulus. Duration of the late peak (130 +/- 18.5 ms) was longer than for the early peak (18 +/- 0.7 ms), but threshold voltages for eliciting each peak were comparable. Sixteen of 29 spontaneously active neurons exhibited a postexcitatory depression of activity that lasted for 163 +/- 19.1 ms. All but one tested neuron in RO responded to stimulation of sympathetic afferents, but 65% of neurons in RM responded to this stimulus. 3. In response to vagal afferent stimulation, 19% of 57 neurons exhibited inhibition only, 11% were only excited, and 9% were either excited or inhibited, depending on the stimulus paradigm used; the remaining 61% of neurons were unresponsive. From a spontaneous rate of 7.9 +/- 3.8 spikes/s, excited cells increased their discharge rate by 1.6 +/- 0.3 spikes/stimulus. Activity of inhibited cells was reduced from 21.3 +/- 5.8 to 7.8 +/- 3.1 spikes/s. The conditioning-test (CT) technique was used to assess 11 neurons' responses. Stellate ganglion stimulation was the test stimulus, and vagal stimulation the conditioning stimulus. Vagal stimulation reduced the neuronal responses to stellate ganglion stimulation by an average of 50% with a CT interval of 60-100 ms, and cell responses returned to control after 300 ms. With spontaneous cell activity, low frequencies of vagal stimulation were generally excitatory, and high frequencies (10-20 Hz) inhibitory.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)


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