Recurrent inhibition in the cerebral cortex
•Electrocorticogram nociceptive responses are related to a recurrent cortical control.•Electrocorticogram responses could change without correlation with sensorial input.•Local cortical control changes the nociceptive related responses amplitudes. Neuronal activity can be modulated by endogenous con...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Neuroscience letters 2019-03, Vol.696, p.20-27 |
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Zusammenfassung: | •Electrocorticogram nociceptive responses are related to a recurrent cortical control.•Electrocorticogram responses could change without correlation with sensorial input.•Local cortical control changes the nociceptive related responses amplitudes.
Neuronal activity can be modulated by endogenous control mechanisms that either facilitate or suppress it. With this idea in mind, we attempted to evaluate and correlate spinal neuronal activity with the amplitude of corticogram (ECoG) event related potentials (ERP) in the presence of nociceptive stimulation in rats. We evaluated the ERP in response to noxious stimuli, endogenous analgesic actions, different frequencies, and heterotopic nociceptive stimulation, as well as in conjunction with recordings from neurons in the spinal cord that are activated by noxious stimuli. Computational tasks enabled us to establish correlations between the amplitude of ERP and neuronal firing of cells in the spinal dorsal horn.
Our results show that the ERP amplitude could be modified by previous activity in the cerebral cortex, but the activity in the spinal cord did not change. Previous activity could originate spontaneously or could be driven by sensory stimulation.
A recurrent inhibitory cortical action is proposed that could explain the suppression of pain perception during electrical or magnetic transcranial stimulation, as well as during heterotopic stimulation.
This study aims to uncover a local recurrent inhibitory cortical action that could modify the sensory information. |
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ISSN: | 0304-3940 1872-7972 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.neulet.2018.12.014 |