Subthalamic oscillatory activity during normal and impaired speech.

Autor: Hell F; Department of Neurology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Marchioninistr. 15, 81377 Munich, Germany; Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Grosshadernerstr. 2, 82152 Martinsried, Germany. Electronic address: franzhell@hotmail.com., Eißner A; Department of Neurology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Marchioninistr. 15, 81377 Munich, Germany., Mehrkens JH; Department of Neurosurgery, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Marchioninistr. 15, 81377 Munich, Germany., Bötzel K; Department of Neurology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Marchioninistr. 15, 81377 Munich, Germany; Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Grosshadernerstr. 2, 82152 Martinsried, Germany.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology [Clin Neurophysiol] 2023 May; Vol. 149, pp. 42-50. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Feb 25.
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2023.02.166
Abstrakt: Objective: We studied the relationship between oscillatory activity in the subthalamic nucleus (STN) and speech production in order to better understand the functional role of the STN.
Methods: We simultaneously recorded subthalamic local field potentials and audio recordings from 5 patients with Parkinson's disease while they performed verbal fluency tasks. We then analyzed the oscillatory signals present in the subthalamic nucleus during these tasks.
Results: We report that normal speech leads to a suppression of subthalamic alpha and beta power. Contrarily, a patient with motor blocks during speech initiation showed a low beta power increase. We also report an increase in error rates in the phonemic non-alternating verbal fluency task during deep brain stimulation (DBS).
Conclusions: We confirm previous findings that intact speech leads to desynchronization in the beta range in the STN. The speech related narrowband beta power increase in a patient with speech problems suggests that exaggerated synchronization in this frequency band is associated with motor blocks during speech initiation. The increased number of errors in verbal fluency tasks during DBS might be caused by an impairment of the response inhibition network caused by stimulation of the STN.
Significance: We suggest that the inability to attenuate beta activity during motor processes is associated with motor freezing across motor behaviours such as speech and gait, as previously shown for freezing of gait.
Competing Interests: Conflict of interest The authors declare no competing financial interests. The ActivaPC + S devices used in this study were provided by Medtronic Europe.
(Copyright © 2023 International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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