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JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 40, Issue 20, Pages 4021-4032Publisher
SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0208-20.2020
Keywords
beta burst; beta oscillations; movement initiation; neurofeedback training
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- Medical Research Council [MR/P012272/1, MC_UU_12024/1]
- National Institute for Health Research Oxford Biomedical Research Centre
- Rosetrees Trust
- Medical Research Council [MR/P012272/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Rosetrees Trust [M780] Funding Source: researchfish
- MRC [MR/P012272/1, MC_UU_12024/1, MC_UU_00003/2] Funding Source: UKRI
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Abnormally increased beta bursts in cortical-basal ganglia-thalamic circuits are associated with rigidity and bradykinesia in patients with Parkinson's disease. Increased beta bursts detected in the motor cortex have also been associated with longer reaction times (RTs) in healthy participants. Here we further hypothesize that suppressing beta bursts through neurofeedback training can improve motor performance in healthy subjects. We conducted a double-blind sham-controlled study on 20 human volunteers (10 females) using a sequential neurofeedback-behavior task with the neurofeedback reflecting the occurrence of beta bursts over sensorimotor cortex quantified in real time. The results show that neurofeedback training helps healthy participants learn to volitionally suppress beta bursts in the sensorimotor cortex, with training being accompanied by reduced RT in subsequent cued movements. These changes were only significant in the real feedback group but not in the sham group, confirming the effect of neurofeedback training over simple motor imagery. In addition, RTs correlated with the rate and accumulated duration of beta bursts in the contralateral motor cortex before the go-cue, but not with averaged beta power. The reduced RTs induced by neurofeedback training positively correlated with reduced beta bursts across all tested hemispheres. These results strengthen the link between the occurrence of beta bursts in the sensorimotor cortex before the go-cue and slowed movement initiation in healthy motor control. The results also highlight the potential benefit of neurofeedback training in facilitating voluntary suppression of beta bursts to speed up movement initiation.
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