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CEREBRAL CORTEX
卷 21, 期 5, 页码 1203-1212出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhq204
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focal hand dystonia; homeostatic metaplasticity; paired associative stimulation; practice-dependent plasticity; transcranial magnetic stimulation
Homeostatic metaplasticity is important to maintain overall synaptic weight in neuronal networks. Previous work suggested that homeostatic metaplasticity in motor cortex is impaired in writer's cramp, the most common form of task-specific focal dystonia, when explored by the interactions between 2 successive plasticity inducing transcranial brain stimulation protocols (Quartarone Rizzo V, Bagnato S, Morgante F, Sant'angelo A, Romano M, Crupi D, Girlanda P, Rothwell JC, Siebner HR. 2005. Homeostatic-like plasticity of the primary motor hand area is impaired in focal hand dystonia. Brain. 128:1943-1950.). To which extent deficient homeostatic metaplasticity applies also to the behavioral level of practice-dependent plasticity is unknown. Here, we examined the interactions of 3 paired associative transcranial magnetic stimulation protocols (motor cortical excitability-enhancing paired associative stimulation (PAS)(25ms), excitability-depressing PAS(10ms), and control PAS(100ms)) with subsequent practice-dependent plasticity. Ten patients with writer's cramp and 10 healthy controls practiced rapid thumb abductions for 30 min. Practice-dependent plasticity was quantified by the increase in peak acceleration of the trained movement. The healthy controls but not the writer's cramp patients showed homeostatic suppression of practice-dependent plasticity after PAS(25ms) when compared with practice-dependent plasticity after PAS(10ms) and PAS(100ms). The lack of the PAS(25ms)-induced suppression of practice-dependent plasticity in writer's cramp correlated with clinical severity of the focal hand dystonia. Findings support the notion that deficient homeostatic metaplasticity of practice-dependent plasticity plays a significant role in the pathophysiology of writer's cramp.
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