Journal
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 39, Issue 40, Pages 7968-7975Publisher
SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3021-18.2019
Keywords
BOLD signal; contrast response function; early visual cortex; GABA; glutamate; human neuroimaging
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- Medical Research Council [MR/K014382/1]
- Royal Society University Research Fellowship
- Wellcome Trust
- MRC [MR/K014382/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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We investigated the relationship between neurochemical and hemodynamic responses as a function of image contrast in the human primary visual cortex (V1). Simultaneously acquired BOLD-fMRI and single voxel proton MR spectroscopy signals were measured in VI of 24 healthy human participants of either sex at 7 tesla field strength, in response to presentations (64 s blocks) of different levels of image contrast (3%, 12.5%, 50%, 100%). Our results suggest that complementary measures of neurotransmission and energy metabolism are in partial agreement: BOLD and glutamate signals were linear with image contrast; however, a significant increase in glutamate concentration was evident only at the highest intensity level. In contrast, GABA signals were steady across all intensity levels. These results suggest that neurochemical concentrations are maintained at lower ranges of contrast levels, which match the statistics of natural vision, and that high stimulus intensity may be critical to increase sensitivity to visually modulated glutamate signals in the early visual cortex using MR spectroscopy.
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