Cortical Neuromodulation of Remote Regions after Experimental Traumatic Brain Injury Normalizes Forelimb Function but is Temporally Dependent

Journal of Neurotrauma
D R VerleyN G Harris

Abstract

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) results in well-known, significant alterations in structural and functional connectivity. Although this is especially likely to occur in areas of pathology, deficits in function to and from remotely connected brain areas, or diaschisis, also occur as a consequence to local deficits. As a result, consideration of the network wiring of the brain may be required to design the most efficacious rehabilitation therapy to target specific functional networks to improve outcome. In this work, we model remote connections after controlled cortical impact injury (CCI) in the rat through the effect of callosal deafferentation to the opposite, contralesional cortex. We show rescue of significantly reaching deficits in injury-affected forelimb function if temporary, neuromodulatory silencing of contralesional cortex function is conducted at 1 week post-injury using the γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) agonist muscimol, compared with vehicle. This indicates that subacute, injury-induced remote circuit modifications are likely to prevent normal ipsilesional control over limb function. However, by conducting temporary contralesional cortex silencing in the same injured rats at 4 weeks post-injury, injury-affected limb func...Continue Reading

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