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CLINICAL NEUROPHYSIOLOGY
Volume 121, Issue 3, Pages 448-452Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2009.11.085
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Short-interval intracortical inhibition (SICI); Transcranial magnetic stimulation; Input-output curves; Synaptic scaling; Sleep; Time of day
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- National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia [565301]
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Objective: Behavioural exposure and sleep may bidirectionally modify the excitability of cortical networks including those in the motor cortex. Here we tested whether the excitability of intracortical inhibitory and excitatory networks within the primary motor cortex exhibited changes suggestive of a time of day influence. Methods: Short-interval intracortical inhibition (SICI) and facilitation (ICF), and input-output curves (IO curves) were investigated using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). Recordings were made from the resting right first dorsal interosseous (FDI) muscle in 10 healthy subjects on three occasions: 9 A. M. and 4 P. M. of the same day, and 9 A. M. of the following day. Results: There was no significant change in any of the measures across the three assessments. Conclusions: These findings provide evidence that time of day does not significantly influence corticospinal and intracortical excitability in the primary motor cortex. Significance: These results provide no support for the hypothesis that synapses within the motor cortex undergo potentiation due to daytime use and behavioural experiences. Additionally, these findings provide evidence that measurement of motor cortical excitability is not systematically biased by time-of-day dependent variability and thus does not pose a confound in studies assessing corticospinal excitability longitudinally. (C) 2009 International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology. Published by Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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