Physiological aging impacts the hemispheric balances of resting state primary somatosensory activities

Brain Topography

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 186-199

  Cottone, Carlo ^a   Tomasevic, Leo ^a   Porcaro, Camillo ^a,d   Filligoi, Giancarlo ^c   Tecchio, Franca ^a,b  

^a FATEBENEFRATELLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b IRCCS SAN RAFFAELE PISANA   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Functional source separation (FSS); Interhemispheric asymmetries; Magnetoencephalography (MEG); Median nerve stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ENTROPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SENSORY STIMULATION; SPECTROMETRY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MIDDLE AGED; REST; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872321307     PISSN: 08960267     EISSN: 15736792     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10548-012-0240-3     Document Type: Article

References (94)

1. Allison T, Goff WR, Williamson PD, Vangilder G (1980) On the neural origin of the early components of the human somatosensory evoked potentials. In: Desmedt JE (ed) Progress in clinical neurophysiology. Karger, Basel, pp 51-68
2. Arab L, Sabbagh MN (2010) Are certain lifestyle habits associated with lower Alzheimer's disease risk? J Alzheimers Dis 20:785-794
3. Assenza G, Zappasodi F, Squitti R, Altamura C, Ventriglia M, Ercolani M, Quattrocchi CC, Lupoi D, Passarelli F, Vernieri F, Rossini PM, Tecchio F (2009) Neuronal functionality assessed by magnetoencephalography is related to oxidative stress system in acute ischemic stroke. Neuroimage 44:1267-1273
4. Babiloni C, Binetti G, Cassarino A, Dal Forno G, Del Percio C, Ferreri F, Ferri R, Frisoni G, Galderisi S, Hirata K, Lanuzza B, Miniussi C, Mucci A, Nobili F, Rodriguez G, Luca Romani G, Rossini PM (2006) Sources of cortical rhythms in adults during physiological aging: a multicentric EEG study. Hum Brain Mapp 27:162-172
5. Barbati G, Porcaro C, Zappasodi F, Rossini PM, Tecchio F (2004) Optimization of an independent component analysis approach for artifact identification and removal in magnetoencephalographic signals. Clin Neurophysiol 115:1220-1232
6. Barbati G, Sigismondi R, Zappasodi F, Porcaro C, Graziadio S, Valente G, Balsi M, Rossini PM, Tecchio F (2006) Functional source separation from magnetoencephalographic signals. Hum Brain Mapp 27:925-934
7. Betti V, Zappasodi F, Rossini PM, Aglioti SM, Tecchio F (2009) Synchronous with your feelings: sensorimotor gamma band and empathy for pain. J Neurosci 29:12384-12392
8. Binkofski F, Seitz RJ, Arnold S, Classen J, Benecke R, Freund HJ (1996) Thalamic metabolism and corticospinal tract integrity determine motor recovery in stroke. Ann Neurol 39:460-470
9. Boakye M, Huckins SC, Szeverenyi NM, Taskey BI, Hodge CJ Jr (2000) Functional magnetic resonance imaging of somatosensory cortex activity produced by electrical stimulation of the median nerve or tactile stimulation of the index finger. J Neurosurg 93:774-783
10. Botez SA, Herrmann DN (2010) Sensory neuropathies, from symptoms to treatment. Curr Opin Neurol 23:502-508
11. Buckner RL (2004) Memory and executive function in aging and AD: multiple factors that cause decline and reserve factors that compensate. Neuron 44:195-208
12. Carter AR, Astafiev SV, Lang CE, Connor LT, Rengachary J, Strube MJ, Pope DL, Shulman GL, Corbetta M (2010) Resting interhemispheric functional magnetic resonance imaging connectivity predicts performance after stroke. Ann Neurol 67:365-375
13. Catalan MJ, Honda M, Weeks RA, Cohen LG, Hallett M (1998) The functional neuroanatomy of simple and complex sequential finger movements: a PET study. Brain 121(Pt 2):253-264
14. Chiang AK, Rennie CJ, Robinson PA, van Albada SJ, Kerr CC (2011) Age trends and sex differences of alpha rhythms including split alpha peaks. Clin Neurophysiol 122:1505-1517
15. Chittajallu R, Isaac JT (2010) Emergence of cortical inhibition by coordinated sensory-driven plasticity at distinct synaptic loci. Nat Neurosci 13:1240-1248
16. Cichocki AAS (2002) Adaptive blind signal and image processing. Wiley, Chichester
17. Clark J, Loftus A, Hammond G (2011) Age-related changes in short-interval intracortical facilitation and dexterity. Neuroreport 22:499-503
18. Conforto AB, Ferreiro KN, Tomasi C, dos Santos RL, Moreira VL, Marie SK, Baltieri SC, Scaff M, Cohen LG (2010) Effects of somatosensory stimulation on motor function after subacute stroke. Neurorehabilitation Neural Repair 24:263-272
19. Crone NE, Miglioretti DL, Gordon B, Lesser RP (1998a) Functional mapping of human sensorimotor cortex with electrocorticographic spectral analysis. II. Event-related synchronization in the gamma band. Brain 121(Pt 12):2301-2315
20. Crone NE, Miglioretti DL, Gordon B, Sieracki JM, Wilson MT, Uematsu S, Lesser RP (1998b) Functional mapping of human sensorimotor cortex with electrocorticographic spectral analysis. I. Alpha and beta event-related desynchronization. Brain 121(Pt 12):2271-2299
21. David-Jurgens M, Churs L, Berkefeld T, Zepka RF, Dinse HR (2008) Differential effects of aging on fore- and hindpaw maps of rat somatosensory cortex. PLoS One 3:e3399
22. Deco G, Corbetta M (2011) The dynamical balance of the brain at rest. Neuroscientist 17:107-123
23. Del Gratta CPV, Tecchio F, Romani G-L (2001) Magnetoencephalography - a non invasive brain imaging method with 1 ms time resolution. Rep Prog Phys 64:1759-1814
24. Del Gratta C, Della Penna S, Ferretti A, Franciotti R, Pizzella V, Tartaro A, Torquati K, Bonomo L, Romani GL, Rossini PM (2002) Topographic organization of the human primary and secondary somatosensory cortices: comparison of fMRI and MEG findings. Neuroimage 17:1373-1383
25. Demandt E, Mehring C, Vogt K, Schulze-Bonhage A, Aertsen A, Ball T (2012) Reaching movement onset- and end-related characteristics of EEG spectral power modulations. Front Neurosci 6:65
26. Dinse HR (2006) Cortical reorganization in the aging brain. Prog Brain Res 157:57-80
27. Duffy FH, Albert MS, McAnulty G, Garvey AJ (1984) Age-related differences in brain electrical activity of healthy subjects. Ann Neurol 16:430-438
28. Duffy FH, McAnulty GB, Albert MS (1993) The pattern of age-related differences in electrophysiological activity of healthy males and females. Neurobiol Aging 14:73-84
29. Ferrell WR, Crighton A, Sturrock RD (1992) Age-dependent changes in position sense in human proximal interphalangeal joints. Neuroreport 3:259-261
30. Forss N, Mustanoja S, Roiha K, Kirveskari E, Makela JP, Salonen O, Tatlisumak T, Kaste M (2011) Activation in parietal operculum parallels motor recovery in stroke. Hum Brain Mapp 33:534-541
31. Frohlich F, Bazhenov M, Timofeev I, Steriade M, Sejnowski TJ (2006) Slow state transitions of sustained neural oscillations by activity-dependent modulation of intrinsic excitability. J Neurosci 26:6153-6162
32. Gaetz W, MacDonald M, Cheyne D, Snead OC (2010) Neuromagnetic imaging of movement-related cortical oscillations in children and adults: age predicts post-movement beta rebound. NeuroImage 51:792-807
33. Garcia-Larrea L, Bastuji H, Mauguiere F (1991) Mapping study of somatosensory evoked potentials during selective spatial attention. Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol 80:201-214
34. Geyer S, Schleicher A, Zilles K (1999) Areas 3a, 3b, and 1 of human primary somatosensory cortex. Neuroimage 10:63-83
35. Hari R, Kaukoranta E (1985) Neuromagnetic studies of somatosensory system: principles and examples. Prog Neurobiol 24:233-256
36. Hikosaka O, Tanaka M, Sakamoto M, Iwamura Y (1985) Deficits in manipulative behaviors induced by local injections of muscimol in the first somatosensory cortex of the conscious monkey. Brain Res 325:375-380
37. Hume AL, Cant BR, Shaw NA, Cowan JC (1982) Central somatosensory conduction time from 10 to 79 years. Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol 54:49-54
38. Huttunen J, Wikstrom H, Salonen O, Ilmoniemi RJ (1999) Human somatosensory cortical activation strengths: comparison between males and females and age-related changes. Brain Res 818:196-203
39. IFSECN (1974) A glossary of terms commonly used by clinical electroencephalographers. Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol 37:538-548
40. Inouye T, Shinosaki K, Sakamoto H, Toi S, Ukai S, Iyama A, Katsuda Y, Hirano M (1991) Quantification of EEG irregularity by use of the entropy of the power spectrum. Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol 79:204-210
41. Jones EG, Coulter JD, Hendry SH (1978) Intracortical connectivity of architectonic fields in the somatic sensory, motor and parietal cortex of monkeys. J Comp Neurol 181:291-347
42. Juenger H, de Haan B, Krageloh-Mann I, Staudt M, Karnath HO (2011) Early determination of somatosensory cortex in the human brain. Cereb Cortex 21:1827-1831
43. Jung P, Baumgartner U, Magerl W, Treede RD (2008) Hemispheric asymmetry of hand representation in human primary somatosensory cortex and handedness. Clin Neurophysiol 119:2579-2586
44. Klimesch W (1999) EEG alpha and theta oscillations reflect cognitive and memory performance: a review and analysis. Brain Res Brain Res Rev 29:169-195
45. Korvenoja A, Kirveskari E, Aronen HJ, Avikainen S, Brander A, Huttunen J, Ilmoniemi RJ, Jaaskelainen JE, Kovala T, Makela JP, Salli E, Seppa M (2006) Sensorimotor cortex localization: comparison of magnetoencephalography, functional MR imaging, and intraoperative cortical mapping. Radiology 241:213-222
46. Laufer Y, Elboim-Gabyzon M (2011) Does sensory transcutaneous electrical stimulation enhance motor recovery following a stroke? A systematic review. Neurorehabil Neural Repair 25(9): 799-809
47. Manning H, Tremblay F (2006) Age differences in tactile pattern recognition at the fingertip. Somatosens Motor Res 23:147-155
48. Marciani MG, Maschio M, Spanedda F, Caltagirone C, Gigli GL, Bernardi G (1994) Quantitative EEG evaluation in normal elderly subjects during mental processes: age-related changes. Int J Neurosci 76:131-140
49. McGregor KM, Zlatar Z, Kleim E, Sudhyadhom A, Bauer A, Phan S, Seeds L, Ford A, Manini TM, White KD, Kleim J, Crosson B (2011) Physical activity and neural correlates of aging: a combined TMS/fMRI study. Behav Brain Res 222:158-168
50. Netz J, Ziemann U, Homberg V (1995) Hemispheric asymmetry of transcallosal inhibition in man. Exp Brain Res 104:527-533
51. Nita DA, Cisse Y, Timofeev I, Steriade M (2006) Increased propensity to seizures after chronic cortical deafferentation in vivo. J Neurophysiol 95:902-913
52. Nithianantharajah J, Hannan AJ (2006) Enriched environments, experience-dependent plasticity and disorders of the nervous system. Nat Rev Neurosci 7:697-709
53. Nithianantharajah J, Hannan AJ (2009) The neurobiology of brain and cognitive reserve: mental and physical activity as modulators of brain disorders. Prog Neurobiol 89:369-382
54. Oliviero A, Tecchio F, Zappasodi F, Pasqualetti P, Salustri C, Lupoi D, Ercolani M, Romani GL, Rossini PM (2004) Brain sensorimotor hand area functionality in acute stroke: insights from magnetoencephalography. Neuroimage 23:542-550
55. Pakkenberg B, Gundersen HJ (1997) Neocortical neuron number in humans: effect of sex and age. J Comp Neurol 384:312-320
56. Patino L, Chakarov V, Schulte-Monting J, Hepp-Reymond MC, Kristeva R (2006) Oscillatory cortical activity during a motor task in a deafferented patient. Neurosci Lett 401:214-218
57. Pinto JG, Hornby KR, Jones DG, Murphy KM (2010) Developmental changes in GABAergic mechanisms in human visual cortex across the lifespan. Front Cell Neurosci 4:16
58. Pizzella V, Tecchio F, Romani GL, Rossini PM (1999) Functional localization of the sensory hand area with respect to the motor central gyrus knob. Neuroreport 10:3809-3814
59. Porcaro C, Barbati G, Zappasodi F, Rossini PM, Tecchio F (2008) Hand sensory-motor cortical network assessed by functional source separation. Hum Brain Mapp 29:70-81
60. Porcaro C, Coppola G, Di Lorenzo G, Zappasodi F, Siracusano A, Pierelli F, Rossini PM, Tecchio F, Seri S (2009) Hand somatosensory subcortical and cortical sources assessed by functional source separation: an EEG study. Hum Brain Mapp 30:660-674
61. Radak Z, Hart N, Sarga L, Koltai E, Atalay M, Ohno H, Boldogh I (2010) Exercise plays a preventive role against Alzheimer's disease. J Alzheimers Dis 20:777-783
62. Riecker A, Groschel K, Ackermann H, Steinbrink C, Witte O, Kastrup A (2006) Functional significance of age-related differences in motor activation patterns. Neuroimage 32:1345-1354
63. Rizzolatti G, Luppino G (2001) The cortical motor system. Neuron 31:889-901
64. Rose L, Bakal DA, Fung TS, Farn P, Weaver LE (1994) Tactile extinction and functional status after stroke. A preliminary investigation. Stroke 25:1973-1976
65. Rossini PM, Tecchio F (2008) On primary cortical hand representation in the left and right hemispheres. Clin Neurophysiol 119:2421-2423
66. Rossini PM, Narici L, Romani GL, Traversa R, Cecchi L, Cilli M, Urbano A (1989) Short latency somatosensory evoked responses to median nerve stimulation in healthy humans: electric and magnetic recordings. Int J Neurosci 46:67-76
67. Rossini PM, Tecchio F, Pizzella V, Lupoi D, Cassetta E, Pasqualetti P (2001) Interhemispheric differences of sensory hand areas after monohemispheric stroke: MEG/MRI integrative study. Neuroimage 14:474-485
68. Sailer A, Dichgans J, Gerloff C (2000) The influence of normal aging on the cortical processing of a simple motor task. Neurology 55:979-985
69. Sale MV, Semmler JG (2005) Age-related differences in corticospinal control during functional isometric contractions in left and right hands. J Appl Physiol 99:1483-1493
70. Salerno A, Georgesco M (1996) Interhemispheric facilitation and inhibition studied in man with double magnetic stimulation. Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol 101:395-403
71. Shaw NA (1992) Age-dependent changes in central somatosensory conduction time. Clinical EEG 23:105-110
72. Stanley EM, Fadel JR, Mott DD (2011) Interneuron loss reduces dendritic inhibition and GABA release in hippocampus of aged rats. Neurobiol Aging
73. Stoeckel MC, Pollok B, Schnitzler A, Seitz RJ (2007) Studying the human somatosensory hand area: a new way to compare fMRI and MEG. J Neurosci Methods 164:280-291
74. Szurhaj W, Derambure P (2006) Intracerebral study of gamma oscillations in the human sensorimotor cortex. Prog Brain Res 159:297-310
75. Talelli P, Ewas A, Waddingham W, Rothwell JC, Ward NS (2008) Neural correlates of age-related changes in cortical neurophysiology. Neuroimage 40:1772-1781
76. Tanosaki M, Ozaki I, Shimamura H, Baba M, Matsunaga M (1999) Effects of aging on central conduction in somatosensory evoked potentials: evaluation of onset versus peak methods. Clin Neurophysiol 110:2094-2103
77. Tecchio F, Zappasodi F, Pasqualetti P, Tombini M, Salustri C, Oliviero A, Pizzella V, Vernieri F, Rossini PM (2005) Rhythmic brain activity at rest from rolandic areas in acute mono-hemispheric stroke: a magnetoencephalographic study. Neuroimage 28:72-83
78. Tecchio F, Zappasodi F, Pasqualetti P, Tombini M, Caulo M, Ercolani M, Rossini PM (2006a) Long-term effects of stroke on neuronal rest activity in rolandic cortical areas. J Neurosci Res 83:1077-1087
79. Tecchio F, Zappasodi F, Tombini M, Oliviero A, Pasqualetti P, Vernieri F, Ercolani M, Pizzella V, Rossini PM (2006b) Brain plasticity in recovery from stroke: an MEG assessment. Neuroimage 32:1326-1334
80. Tecchio F, Graziadio S, Barbati G, Sigismondi R, Zappasodi F, Porcaro C, Valente G, Balsi M, Rossini PM (2007a) Somatosensory dynamic gamma-band synchrony: a neural code of sensorimotor dexterity. Neuroimage 35:185-193
81. Tecchio F, Pasqualetti P, Zappasodi F, Tombini M, Lupoi D, Vernieri F, Rossini PM (2007b) Outcome prediction in acute monohemispheric stroke via magnetoencephalography. J Neurol 254:296-305
82. Tecchio F, Porcaro C, Barbati G, Zappasodi F (2007c) Functional source separation and hand cortical representation for a brain-computer interface feature extraction. J Physiol 580:703-721
83. Tecchio F, Zappasodi F, Tombini M, Caulo M, Vernieri F, Rossini PM (2007d) Interhemispheric asymmetry of primary hand representation and recovery after stroke: a MEG study. Neuroimage 36:1057-1064
84. Tecchio F, Zappasodi F, Porcaro C, Barbati G, Assenza G, Salustri C, Rossini PM (2008) High-gamma band activity of primary hand cortical areas: a sensorimotor feedback efficiency index. Neuroimage 40:256-264
85. Tecchio F, Assenza G, Zappasodi F, Mariani S, Salustri C, Squitti R (2011) Glutamate-mediated primary somatosensory cortex excitability correlated with circulating copper and ceruloplasmin. Int J Alzheimer's Dis 2011:292593
86. Topolnik L, Steriade M, Timofeev I (2003) Partial cortical deafferentation promotes development of paroxysmal activity. Cereb Cortex 13:883-893
87. van den Berg FE, Swinnen SP, Wenderoth N (2011) Excitability of the motor cortex ipsilateral to the moving body side depends on spatio-temporal task complexity and hemispheric specialization. PLoS One 6:e17742
88. van Putten MJ (2007) The revised brain symmetry index. Clin Neurophysiol 118:2362-2367
89. Wall JT, Kaas JH, Sur M, Nelson RJ, Felleman DJ, Merzenich MM (1986) Functional reorganization in somatosensory cortical areas 3b and 1 of adult monkeys after median nerve repair: possible relationships to sensory recovery in humans. J Neurosci 6:218-233
90. Wang HS, Busse EW (1969) EEG of healthy old persons - a longitudinal study. I. Dominant background activity and occipital rhythm. J Gerontol 24:419-426
91. Ward NS, Swayne OB, Newton JM (2008) Age-dependent changes in the neural correlates of force modulation: an fMRI study. Neurobiol Aging 29:1434-1446
92. White LE, Andrews TJ, Hulette C, Richards A, Groelle M, Paydarfar J, Purves D (1997) Structure of the human sensorimotor system. II: Lateral symmetry. Cereb Cortex 7:31-47
93. Wilson TW, Slason E, Asherin R, Kronberg E, Reite ML, Teale PD, Rojas DC (2010) An extended motor network generates beta and gamma oscillatory perturbations during development. Brain Cogn 73:75-84
94. Zappasodi F, Pasqualetti P, Tombini M, Ercolani M, Pizzella V, Rossini PM, Tecchio F (2006) Hand cortical representation at rest and during activation: gender and age effects in the two hemispheres. Clin Neurophysiol 117:1518-1528