Spatio-temporal mapping cortical neuroplasticity in carpal tunnel syndrome

Brain

Volumn 135, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 3062-3073

  Dhond, Rupali P ^a   Ruzich, Emily ^a   Witzel, Thomas ^a   Maeda, Yumi ^a,b   Malatesta, Cristina ^c   Morse, Leslie R ^c   Audette, Joseph ^d   Hämäläinen, Matti ^a   Kettner, Norman ^b   Napadow, Vitaly ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b LOGAN COLLEGE OF CHIROPRACTIC   (United States)

^c and Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program   (United States)

^d HARVARD VANGUARD MEDICAL ASSOCIATES   (United States)

Author keywords

magnetoencephalography; neuropathic pain; oscillations; plasticity; somatosensory areas

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INNERVATION; LATENT PERIOD; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE CONDUCTION; OSCILLATION; PAIN; PARESTHESIA; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; SPECTROSCOPY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; ULNAR NERVE;

EID: 84867737023     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/aws233     Document Type: Article

References (75)

1. Allard T, Clark SA, Jenkins WM, Merzenich MM. Reorganization of somatosensory area 3b representations in adult owl monkeys after digital syndactyly. J Neurophysiol 1991; 66: 1048-58.
2. Birbaumer N, Lutzenberger W, Montoya P, Larbig W, Unertl K, Topfner S, et al. Effects of regional anesthesia on phantom limb pain are mirrored in changes in cortical reorganization. J Neurosci 1997; 17: 5503-8.
3. Calford MB, Tweedale R. Immediate expansion of receptive fields of neurons in area 3b of macaque monkeys after digit denervation. Somatosens Mot Res 1991; 8: 249-60.
4. Cheyne D, Gaetz W, Garnero L, Lachaux JP, Ducorps A, Schwartz D, et al. Neuromagnetic imaging of cortical oscillations accompanying tactile stimulation. Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 2003; 17: 599-611.
5. Clark SA, Allard T, Jenkins WM, Merzenich MM. Receptive fields in the body-surface map in adult cortex defined by temporally correlated inputs. Nature 1988; 332: 444-5.
6. Costigan M, Scholz J, Woolf CJ. Neuropathic pain: a maladaptive response of the nervous system to damage. Annu Rev Neurosci 2009; 32: 1-32.
7. Dale AM, Fischl B, Sereno MI. Cortical surface-based analysis. I. Segmentation and surface reconstruction. Neuroimage 1999; 9: 179-94.
8. Dale AM, Halgren E. Spatiotemporal mapping of brain activity by integration of multiple imaging modalities. Curr Opin Neurobiol 2001; 11: 202-8.
9. Dale AM, Liu AK, Fischl BR, Buckner RL, Belliveau JW, Lewine JD, et al. Dynamic statistical parametric mapping: combining fMRI and MEG for high-resolution imaging of cortical activity. Neuron 2000; 26: 55-67.
10. Dale AM, Sereno MI. Improved localization of cortical activity by combining EEG and MEG with MRI cortical surface reconstruction: a linear approach. J Cogn Neurosci 1993; 5: 162-76.
11. Davis KD, Kiss ZH, Tasker RR, Dostrovsky JO. Thalamic stimulationevoked sensations in chronic pain patients and in nonpain (movement disorder) patients. J Neurophysiol 1996; 75: 1026-37.
12. deMunck JC. A linear dicretization of the volume conductor boundary integral equation using analytically integrated elements. IEEE Transact Biomed Eng 1992; 39: 986-90.
13. Dhond RP, Buckner RL, Dale AM, Marinkovic K, Halgren E. Spatiotemporal maps of brain activity underlying word generation and their modification during repetition priming. J Neurosci 2001; 21: 3564-71.
14. Druschky K, Kaltenhauser M, Hummel C, Druschky A, Huk WJ, Stefan H, et al. Alteration of the somatosensory cortical map in peripheral mononeuropathy due to carpal tunnel syndrome. Neurorep 2000; 11: 3925-30.
15. Elbert T, Flor H, Birbaumer N, Knecht S, Hampson S, Larbig W, et al. Extensive reorganization of the somatosensory cortex in adult humans after nervous system injury. Neuroreport 1994; 5: 2593-7.
16. Fischl B, Sereno MI, Dale AM. Cortical surface-based analysis. II. Inflation, flattening, and a surface-based coordinate system. Neuroimage 1999a; 9: 195-207.
17. Fischl B, Sereno MI, Tootell RB, Dale AM. High-resolution intersubject averaging and a coordinate system for the cortical surface. Hum Brain Mapp 1999b; 8: 272-84.
18. Flor H. Remapping somatosensory cortex after injury. Adv Neurol 2003; 93: 195-204.
19. Forss N, Merlet I, Vanni S, Hamalainen M, Mauguiere F, Hari R. Activation of human mesial cortex during somatosensory target detection task. Brain Res 1996; 734: 229-35.
20. Godde B, Spengler F, Dinse HR. Associative pairing of tactile stimulation induces somatosensory cortical reorganization in rats and humans. Neuroreport 1996; 8: 281-5.
21. Goupillaud P, Grossman A, Morlet J. Cycle-octave and related transforms in seismic signal analysis. Geoexploration 1984; 23: 85-102.
22. Graimann B, Huggins JE, Levine SP, Pfurtscheller G. Visualization of significant ERD/ERS patterns in multichannel EEG and ECoG data. Clin Neurophysiol 2002; 113: 43-7.
23. Hakim AJ, Cherkas L, El Zayat S, MacGregor AJ, Spector TD. The genetic contribution to carpal tunnel syndrome in women: a twin study. Arthritis Rheum 2002; 47: 275-9.
24. Halgren E, Dhond RP, Christensen N, Van Petten C, Marinkovic K, Lewine JD, et al. N400-like magnetoencephalography responses modulated by semantic context, word frequency, and lexical class in sentences. Neuroimage 2002; 17: 1101-16.
25. Hamalainen MS, Ilmoniemi RJ. Interpreting measured magnetic fields of the brain: estimates of current distribution. Helsinki: University of Technology, Department of Technical Physics, Report TKK-F-A559; 1984.
26. Hebb D. The organization of behavior. New York: Wiley and Sons; 1949.
27. Jablecki CK, Andary MT, Floeter MK, Miller RG, Quartly CA, Vennix MJ, Wilson Jr. Practice parameter: Electrodiagnostic studies in carpal tunnel syndrome. Report of the American Association of Electrodiagnostic Medicine, American Academy of Neurology, and the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Neurology 2002; 58: 1589-92.
28. Jensen O, Goel P, Kopell N, Pohja M, Hari R, Ermentrout B. On the human sensorimotor-cortex beta rhythm: sources and modeling. Neuroimage 2005; 26: 347-55.
29. Juottonen K, Gockel M, Silen T, Hurri H, Hari R, Forss N. Altered central sensorimotor processing in patients with complex regional pain syndrome. Pain 2002; 98: 315-23.
30. Katz JN, Keller RB, Simmons BP, Rogers WD, Bessette L, Fossel AH, et al. Maine Carpal Tunnel Study: outcomes of operative and nonoperative therapy for carpal tunnel syndrome in a community-based cohort. J Hand Surg Am 1998; 23: 697-710.
31. Katz JN, Simmons BP. Clinical practice. Carpal tunnel syndrome. N Engl J Med 2002; 346: 1807-12.
32. Kirveskari E, Vartiainen NV, Gockel M, Forss N. Motor cortex dysfunction in complex regional pain syndrome. Clin Neurophysiol 2010; 121: 1085-91.
33. Knecht S, Henningsen H, Elbert T, Flor H, Hohling C, Pantev C, et al. Cortical reorganization in human amputees and mislocalization of painful stimuli to the phantom limb. Neurosci Lett 1995; 201: 262-4.
34. Levine DW, Simmons BP, Koris MJ, Daltroy LH, Hohl GG, Fossel AH, et al. A self-administered questionnaire for the assessment of severity of symptoms and functional status in carpal tunnel syndrome. J Bone Joint Surg Am 1993; 75: 1585-92.
35. Lin FH, Belliveau JW, Dale AM, Hamalainen MS. Distributed current estimates using cortical orientation constraints. Hum Brain Mapp 2006; 27: 1-13.
36. Liu AK, Belliveau JW, Dale AM. Spatiotemporal imaging of human brain activity using fMRI constrained MEG data: Monte Carlo simulations. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1998; 95: 8945-50.
37. Marinkovic K. Spatiotemporal dynamics of word processing in the human cortex. Neuroscientist 2004; 10: 142-52.
38. Mauguiere F, Merlet I, Forss N, Vanni S, Jousmaki V, Adeleine P, et al. Activation of a distributed somatosensory cortical network in the human brain. A dipole modelling study of magnetic fields evoked by median nerve stimulation. Part I: location and activation timing of SEF sources. Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol 1997a; 104: 281-9.
39. Mauguiere F, Merlet I, Forss N, Vanni S, Jousmaki V, Adeleine P, et al. Activation of a distributed somatosensory cortical network in the human brain: A dipole modelling study of magnetic fields evoked by median nerve stimulation. Part II: Effects of stimulus rate, attention and stimulus detection. Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol 1997b; 104: 290-5.
40. Mendez P, Bacci A. Assortment of GABAergic plasticity in the cortical interneuron melting pot. Neural Plast 2011; 2011: 976856.
41. Merzenich MM, Kaas JH, Wall J, Nelson RJ, Sur M, Felleman D. Topographic reorganization of somatosensory cortical areas 3b and 1 in adult monkeys following restricted deafferentation. Neuroscience 1983a; 8: 33-55.
42. Merzenich MM, Kaas JH, Wall JT, Sur M, Nelson RJ, Felleman DJ. Progression of change following median nerve section in the cortical representation of the hand in areas 3b and 1 in adult owl and squirrel monkeys. Neuroscience 1983b; 10: 639-65.
43. Merzenich MM, Nelson RJ, Stryker MP, Cynader MS, Schoppmann A, Zook JM. Somatosensory cortical map changes following digit amputation in adult monkeys. J Comp Neurol 1984; 224: 591-605.
44. Moore CI, Stern CE, Dunbar C, Kostyk SK, Gehi A, Corkin S. Referred phantom sensations and cortical reorganization after spinal cord injury in humans. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2000; 97: 14703-8.
45. Napadow V, Kettner N, Ryan A, Kwong KK, Audette J, Hui KK. Somatosensory cortical plasticity in carpal tunnel syndrome-a cross-sectional fMRI evaluation. Neuroimage 2006; 31: 520-30.
46. Nikouline VV, Linkenkaer-Hansen K, Wikstrom H, Kesaniemi M, Antonova EV, Ilmoniemi RJ, et al. Dynamics of mu-rhythm suppression caused by median nerve stimulation: a magnetoencephalographic study in human subjects. Neurosci Lett 2000; 294: 163-6.
47. Oldfield RC. The assessment and analysis of handedness: the Edinburgh inventory. Neuropsychologia 1971; 9: 97-113.
48. Oostendorp TF, Van Oosterom A. Source parameter estimation using realistic geometry in bioelectricity and biomagnetism. In: Nenonen J, Rajala HM, Katila T, editors. Biomagnetic localization and 3D modeling. Helsinki. Helsinky University of Technology, Report TKK-F-A689, 1992.
49. Office of Women's Health. Carpal tunnel syndrome fact sheet. In: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, editor; 2009. p. 1-5.
50. Penfield W, Rasmussen T. The cerebral cortex of man. New York: Macmillan; 1955.
51. Pfurtscheller G. Central beta rhythm during sensorimotor activities in man. Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol 1981; 51: 253-64.
52. Phalen GS. The carpal-tunnel syndrome. Seventeen years' experience in diagnosis and treatment of six hundred fifty-four hands. J Bone Joint Surg Am 1966; 48: 211-28.
53. Pilz K, Veit R, Braun C, Godde B. Effects of co-activation on cortical organization and discrimination performance. Neuroreport 2004; 15: 2669-72.
54. Pleger B, Ragert P, Schwenkreis P, Forster AF, Wilimzig C, Dinse H, et al. Patterns of cortical reorganization parallel impaired tactile discrimination and pain intensity in complex regional pain syndrome. Neuroimage 2006; 32: 503-10.
55. Pleger B, Tegenthoff M, Schwenkreis P, Janssen F, Ragert P, Dinse HR, et al. Mean sustained pain levels are linked to hemispherical side-to-side differences of primary somatosensory cortex in the complex regional pain syndrome I. Exp Brain Res 2004; 155: 115-9.
56. Pons TP, Garraghty PE, Ommaya AK, Kaas JH, Taub E, Mishkin M. Massive cortical reorganization after sensory deafferentation in adult macaques. Science 1991; 252: 1857-60.
57. Porcaro C, Coppola G, Di Lorenzo G, Zappasodi F, Siracusano A, Pierelli F, et al. Hand somatosensory subcortical and cortical sources assessed by functional source separation: an EEG study. Hum Brain Mapp 2009; 30: 660-74.
58. Radwin RG, Sesto ME, Zachary SV. Functional tests to quantify recovery following carpal tunnel release. J Bone Joint Surg Am 2004; 86A: 2614-20.
59. Ramachandran VS, Stewart M, Rogers-Ramachandran DC. Perceptual correlates of massive cortical reorganization. Neuroreport 1992; 3: 583-6.
60. Rossini PM, Martino G, Narici L, Pasquarelli A, Peresson M, Pizzella V, et al. Short-term brain 'plasticity' in humans: transient finger representation changes in sensory cortex somatotopy following ischemic anesthesia. Brain Res 1994; 642: 169-77.
61. Salenius S, Schnitzler A, Salmelin R, Jousmaki V, Hari R. Modulation of human cortical rolandic rhythms during natural sensorimotor tasks. Neuroimage 1997; 5: 221-8.
62. Salmelin R, Hari R. Spatiotemporal characteristics of sensorimotor neuromagnetic rhythms related to thumb movement. Neuroscience 1994; 60: 537-50.
63. Seiler JG 3rd, Milek MA, Carpenter GK, Swiontkowski MF. Intraoperative assessment of median nerve blood flow during carpal tunnel release with laser Doppler flowmetry. J Hand Surg Am 1989; 14: 986-91.
64. Seung HS. How the brain keeps the eyes still. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1996; 93: 13339-44.
65. Silverstein BA, Fine LJ, Armstrong TJ. Occupational factors and carpal tunnel syndrome. Am J Ind Med 1987; 11: 343-58.
66. Stancak A, Svoboda J, Rachmanova R, Vrana J, Kralik J, Tintera J. Desynchronization of cortical rhythms following cutaneous stimulation: effects of stimulus repetition and intensity, and of the size of corpus callosum. Clin Neurophysiol 2003; 114: 1936-47.
67. Stavrinou ML, Della Penna S, Pizzella V, Torquati K, Cianflone F, Franciotti R, et al. Temporal dynamics of plastic changes in human primary somatosensory cortex after finger webbing. Cereb Cortex 2007; 17: 2134-42.
68. Tecchio F, Padua L, Aprile I, Rossini PM. Carpal tunnel syndrome modifies sensory hand cortical somatotopy: a MEG study. Hum Brain Mapp 2002; 17: 28-36.
69. Tiihonen J, Hari R, Hamalainen M. Early deflections of cerebral magnetic responses to median nerve stimulation. Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol 1989; 74: 290-6.
70. Tinazzi M, Valeriani M, Moretto G, Rosso T, Nicolato A, Fiaschi A, et al. Plastic interactions between hand and face cortical representations in patients with trigeminal neuralgia: a somatosensory-evoked potentials study. Neuroscience 2004; 127: 769-76.
71. Tinazzi M, Zanette G, Volpato D, Testoni R, Bonato C, Manganotti P, et al. Neurophysiological evidence of neuroplasticity at multiple levels of the somatosensory system in patients with carpal tunnel syndrome. Brain 1998; 121(Pt 9): 1785-94.
72. Tinel J. "Tingling" signs with peripheral nerve injuries. 1915. J Hand Surg Br 2005; 30: 87-9.
73. Wang X, Merzenich MM, Sameshima K, Jenkins WM. Remodelling of hand representation in adult cortex determined by timing of tactile stimulation. Nature 1995; 378: 71-5.
74. Wikstrom H, Huttunen J, Korvenoja A, Virtanen J, Salonen O, Aronen H, et al. Effects of interstimulus interval on somatosensory evoked magnetic fields (SEFs): a hypothesis concerning SEF generation at the primary sensorimotor cortex. Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol 1996; 100: 479-87.
75. Zhang Z, Francisco EM, Holden JK, Dennis RG, Tommerdahl M. Somatosensory information processing in the aging population. Front Aging Neurosci 2011; 3: 18.