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NEUROREPORT
Volume 13, Issue 18, Pages 2581-2586Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/00001756-200212200-00040
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magnetoencephalography; passive movement; plasticity; somatosensory evoked fields; stroke; tactile stimulation
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Magnetoencephalography (MEG) was used in a patient with right centro-parietal stroke to investigate the cortical processing of tactile pneumatic stimulation and passive movement of the impaired left and unaffected right-hand index finger. Source localization of somatosensory evoked magnetic fields (SEF) recorded 2 weeks after infarction demonstrated a spatial displacement of the contralateral SI generators in the affected hemisphere. The distance between SI sources activated by either stimulation technique was noticeably enlarged in comparison to the left hemisphere and to previous data from 12 healthy subjects. Follow-up MEG after 6 months revealed a closer spatial arrangement of the two modality-specific SEF generators and a diminution of the interhemispheric asymmetry of proprioception-related SI sources. The topographical alterations were accompanied by clear clinical improvement of both joint position sense and tactile sensation. The occurrence of ipsilateral SI activity following passive movement of only the impaired index finger might suggest a disinhibition of subthreshold, transcallosal excitatory pathways.
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