Acute improvement of hand sensibility after selective ipsilateral cutaneous forearm anaesthesia

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2733-2736

  Björkman, Anders ^a   Rosén, Birgitta ^a   Lundborg, Göran ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cortical reorganization; Deafferentation; EMLA ; Hand function; Human

Indexed keywords

EMLA;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOREARM; GRIP STRENGTH; HAND; HAND FUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSIBILITY; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TOUCH;

ADULT; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; LIDOCAINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PERCEPTION; PRILOCAINE; SENSATION; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SKIN; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 9644270410     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2004.03742.x     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. American Society of Hand Therapists (ASHT) (1992) Clinical Assessment Recommendation, 2nd Edn.
2. Björkman, A., Rosén, B., van Westen, D., Larsson, E.-M. & Lundborg, G. (2004) Acute improvement of contralateral hand function after deafferentation. Neuroreport, 15, 1861-1865.
3. Brasil-Neto, J.P., Cohen, L.G., Pascual-Leone, A., Jabir, F.K., Wall, R.T. & Hallett, M. (1992) Rapid reversible modulation of human motor outputs after transient deafferentation of the forearm: a study with transcranial magnetic stimulation. Neurology, 42, 1302-1306.
4. Calford, M.B. & Tweedale, R. (1990) Interhemispheric transfer of plasticity in the cerebral cortex. Science, 249, 805-807.
5. Calford, M.B. & Tweedale, R. (1991) Immediate expansion of receptive fields of neurons in area 3b of macaque monkeys after digit denervation. Somatosens. Mot. Res., 8, 249-260.
6. Chen, R., Cohen, L.G. & Hallett, M. (2002) Nervous system reorganization following injury. Neuroscience, 111, 761-773.
7. Coq, J.O. & Xerri, C. (1999) Tactile impoverishment and sensorimotor restriction deteriorate the forepaw cutaneous map in the primary somatosensory cortex of adult rats. Exp. Brain Res., 129, 518-531.
8. Dellon, A.L. (1981) Sensibility and re-education of sensation in the hand. William & Wilkins, Baltimore.
9. Dinse, H.R., Ragert, P., Burkhard, P., Schwenkreis, P. & Tegenthoff, M. (2003) Pharmacological modulation of perceptual learning and associated cortical reorganization. Science, 301, 91-94.
10. Donoghue, J.P., Hess, G. & Sanes, J.N. (1996) Motor cortical substrates and mechanisms for learning. In Bloedel, J.R., Ebner, T.J. & Wise, S.P. (Eds), Acquisition of Motor Behaviour in Vertebrates. MIT, Cambridge, MA, pp. 363-386.
11. Finnerty, G.T. & Connors, B.W. (2000) Sensory deprivation without competition yields modest alterations of short-term synaptic dynamics. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA, 97, 12864-12868.
12. Godde, B., Spengler, F. & Dinse, H.R. (1996) Associative pairing of tactile stimulation induces somatosensory cortical reorganization in rats and humans. Neuroreport, 8, 281-285.
13. Jenkins, W.M., Merzenich, N.M., Ochs, M.T., Allard, T. & Guic-Robles, E. (1990) Functional reorganization of primary somatosensory cortex in adult owl monkeys after behaviorally controlled tactile stimulation. J. Neurophysiol., 63, 82-104.
14. Kaas, J. (1991) Plasticity of sensory and motor maps in adult mammals. Ann. Rev. Neurosci., 14, 137-168.
15. Kaas, J.H., Merzenich, M.M. & Killackey, H.P. (1983) The reorganization of somatosensory cortex following peripheral nerve damage in adult and developing mammals. Annu. Rev. Neurosci., 6, 325-356.
16. Kelahan, A.M., Ray, R.H., Carson, L.V., Massey, C.E. & Doetsch, G.S. (1981) Functional reorganization of adult raccoon somatosensory cerebral cortex following neonatal digit amputation. Brain Res., 223, 152-159.
17. Liepert, J., Tegenthoff, M. & Malin, J.P. (1995) Changes of cortical motor area size during immobilization. Electroencephalogr. Clin. Neurophysiol., 97, 382-386.
18. Lundborg, G. (2000) Brain plasticity and hand surgery: an overview. J. Hand Surg. [Br.]., 25, 242-252.
19. Lundborg, G. (2003) Nerve injury and repair - a challenge to the plastic brain. Richard P. Bunge memorial lecture. J. Peripher. Nerv. Sys., 8, 209-226.
20. Merzenich, M.M. & Jenkins, W.M. (1993) Reorganization of cortical representations of the hand following alterations of skin inputs induced by nerve injury, skin island transfers, and experience. J. Hand. Ther., 6, 89-104.
21. Merzenich, M.M., Nelson, R.J., Stryker, M.S., Cynader, M.S., Schoppman, A. & Zook, J.M. (1984) Somatosensory cortical map changes following digit amputation in adult monkeys. J. Comp. Neurol., 224, 591-605.
22. Metzler, J. & Marks, P.S. (1979) Functional changes in cat somatic sensory-motor cortex during short-term reversible epidural blocks. Brain Res., 177, 379-383.
23. Muellbacher, W., Richards, C., Ziemann, U., Wittenberg, G., Weltz, D., Boroojerdi, B., Cohen, L. & Hallett, M. (2002) Improving hand function in chronic stroke. Arch. Neurol., 59, 1278-1282.
24. Rossini, P.M., Martino, G., Narici, L., Pasquarelli, A., Peresson, M., Pizzella, V., Tecchio, F., Torrioli, G. & Romani, G.L. (1994) Short term brain 'plasticity' in humans: transient finger representation changes in sensory cortex somatotopy following ischemic anesthesia. Brain Res., 642, 169-177.
25. Sadato, N., Zeffiro, T.A., Campbell, G., Konishi, J., Shibasaki, H. & Hallet, M. (1995) Regional cerebral blood flow changes in motor cortical areas after transient anesthesia of the forearm. Ann. Neurol., 37, 74-81.
26. Silva, A.C., Rasey, S.K., Wu, X. & Wall, J.T. (1996) Initial cortical reactions to injury of the median and radial nerves to the hands of adult primates. J. Comp. Neurol., 366, 700-716.
27. Stryker, M.P. & Harris, W.A. (1986) Binocular impulse blockade prevents the formation of ocular dominance columns in visual cortex. J. Neurosci., 6, 2117-2133.
28. Tinazzi, M., Zanette, G., Polo, A., Volpato, D., Manganotti, P., Bonato, C., Testoni, R. & Fiaschi, A. (1997) Transient deafferentation in humans induces rapid modulation of primary sensory cortex not associated with subcortical changes: a somatosensory evoked potential study. Neurosci. Lett., 223, 21-24.
29. Wall, J.T., Kaas, J.H., Sur, M., Nelson, R.J., Fellman, D.J. & Merzenich, M.M. (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.
30. Wall, J.T., Xu, J. & Wang, X. (2002) Human brain plasticity: an emerging view of the multiple substrates and mechanisms that cause cortical changes and related sensory dysfunctions after injuries of sensory inputs from the body. Brain Res. Brain Res. Rev., 39, 181-215.
31. Weiss, T., Miltner, W., Huonker, R., Friedet, R., Schmidt, I. & Taub, E. (2000) Rapid functional plasticity of the somatosensory cortex after finger amputation. Exp. Brain Res., 134, 199-203.
32. Werhahn, K.J., Mortensen, J., Kaelin-Lang, A., Boroojerdi, B. & Cohen, L.G. (2002a) Cortical excitability changes induced by deafferentation of the contralateral hemisphere. Brain, 125, 1402-1413.
33. Werhahn, K.J., Mortensen, J., van Boven, R.W., Zeuner, K.E. & Cohen, L.G. (2002b) Enhanced tactile spatial acuity and cortical processing during acute hand deafferentation. Nature Neurosci., 5, 936-938.
34. Wiesel, T.N. & Hubel, D.H. (1963) Single-cell responses in striate cortex of kittens deprived of vision in one eye. J. Neurophysiol., 26, 1003-1017.
35. Wynn Parry, C.B. & Salter, M. (1976) Sensory re-education after median nerve lesions. The Hand, 8, 250-257.