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An unavoidable modulation? Sensory attention and human primary motor cortex excitability
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Ruge, Diane, Muggleton, Neil, Hoad, Damon, Caronni, Antonio and Rothwell, John C. (2014) An unavoidable modulation? Sensory attention and human primary motor cortex excitability. The European journal of neuroscience, 40 (5). pp. 2850-2858. doi:10.1111/ejn.12651 ISSN 1460-9568.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.12651
Abstract
The link between basic physiology and its modulation by cognitive states, such as attention, is poorly understood. A significant association becomes apparent when patients with movement disorders describe experiences with changing their attention focus and the fundamental effect that this has on their motor symptoms. Moreover, frequently used mental strategies for treating such patients, e.g. with task‐specific dystonia, widely lack laboratory‐based knowledge about physiological mechanisms. In this largely unexplored field, we looked at how the locus of attention, when it changed between internal (locus hand) and external (visual target), influenced excitability in the primary motor cortex (M1) in healthy humans. Intriguingly, both internal and external attention had the capacity to change M1 excitability. Both led to a reduced stimulation‐induced GABA‐related inhibition and a change in motor evoked potential size, i.e. an overall increased M1 excitability. These previously unreported findings indicated: (i) that cognitive state differentially interacted with M1 physiology, (ii) that our view of distraction (attention locus shifted towards external or distant location), which is used as a prevention or management strategy for use‐dependent motor disorders, is too simple and currently unsupported for clinical application, and (iii) the physiological state reached through attention modulation represents an alternative explanation for frequently reported electrophysiology findings in neuropsychiatric disorders, such as an aberrant inhibition.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | R Medicine > R Medicine (General) | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences > Social Science & Systems in Health (SSSH) Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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Journal or Publication Title: | The European journal of neuroscience | ||||||||
Publisher: | Wiley | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1460-9568 | ||||||||
Official Date: | September 2014 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 40 | ||||||||
Number: | 5 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 2850-2858 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1111/ejn.12651 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Copyright Holders: | Federation of European Neurosciences and John Wiley and Sons Ltd | ||||||||
Funder: | Tourette Syndrome Association, Dorothy Feiss Scientifc Research Grant, National Science Council Taiwan |
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