Disappearance of frontal N30 component of median nerve stimulated SSEPs in two young children with abnormal striatal lesions

Brain and Development

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 251-253

  Kato, Yosuke ^a   Fukuda, Chisako ^a   Maegaki, Yoshihiro ^a   Inoue, Takehiko ^a   Hiraiwa, Rika ^b   Hiraiwa, Hisayuki ^b   Ohno, Kousaku ^a   Tomita, Yutaka ^a  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Eastern Shimane Rehabilitation Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Early childhood; Extrapyramidal symptom; MN SSEPs; N30; Striatum

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHOREOATHETOSIS; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; NERVE STIMULATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

BRAIN INJURIES; CHILD; CORPUS STRIATUM; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 33847113937     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.braindev.2006.09.002     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. Rossini P.M., Traversa R., Boccasena P., Martino G., Passarelli F., Pacifici L., et al. Parkinson's disease and somatosensory evoked potentials: apomorphine-induced transient potentiation of frontal components. Neurology 43 (1993) 2495-2500
2. Topper R., Schwarz M., Podoll K., Domges F., and Noth J. Absence of frontal somatosensory evoked potentials in Huntington's disease. Brain 116 (1993) 87-101
3. Reilly J.A., Hallett M., Cohen L.G., Tarkka I.M., and Dang N. The N30 component of somatosensory evoked potentials in patients with dystonia. Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol 84 (1992) 243-247
4. Fukuda C., Tomita Y., Maegaki Y., and Kubota N. Frontal N30 of median nerve SSEPs for evaluation of movement disorders with destructive basal ganglia deficits. Neuropediatrics 34 (2003) 205-210
5. Ueno M., Fukuda C., and Tomita Y. Frontal N30 of median nerve SSEPs and the brain image of basal ganglia in patients with athetotic cerebral palsy (in Japanese). No To Hattatsu (Tokyo) 38 (2006) 373-374
6. Allison T., McCarthy G., Wood C.C., Darcey T.M., Spencer D.D., and Williamson P.D. Human cortical potentials evoked by stimulation of the median nerve. I. Cytoarchitectonic areas generating short-latency activity. J Neurophysiol 62 (1989) 694-710
7. Desmedt J.E., and Cheron G. Non-cephalic reference recording of early somatosensory potentials to finger stimulation in adult or aging normal man: differentiation of widespread N18 and contralateral N20 from the prerolandic P22 and N30 components. Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol 52 (1981) 553-570
8. Murase N., Kaji R., Shimazu H., Katayama-Hirota M., Ikeda A., Kohara N., et al. Abnormal premovement gating of somatosensory input in writer's cramp. Brain 123 (2000) 1813-1829
9. Fukuda C., Tomita Y., and Maegaki Y. P22 and N30 of median nerve SSEPs: independence of the frontal waves from parietal waves [in Japanese]. No To Hattatsu (Tokyo) 34 (2002) 295-299