Influence of cerebellar stereotactic stimulation on left-right electrodermal information transference in a patient with cerebral palsy

Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment
Petr BobMiroslav Galanda

Abstract

Recent evidence indicates that cerebral palsy is connected to specific autonomic dysregulation between sympathetic and parasympathetic efferent pathways, likely linked to hemispheric influences. These findings suggest a hypothesis that contralateral interhemispheric disinhibition, which may occur on various levels of brain processing including motor functions, could be linked to specific functional dysregulation and structural lesions, which may play a specific role in the modulation of autonomic functions and lead to autonomic dysregulation in cerebral palsy. With the aim of comparing autonomic functions as they relate to interhemispheric modulatory influences during therapeutically indicated stereotactic cerebellar stimulation, we have performed bilateral electrodermal activity measurement and calculations of pointwise transinformation (PTI) in a patient with cerebral palsy. Measurement was performed during therapeutic deep cerebellar stimulation in two cerebellar areas in anterior cerebellar lobe-culmen (left electrode) and central lobule-superior cerebellar peduncle (right electrode). The results indicate that information transference (PTI) is able to distinguish the states related to specific cerebellar stimulations and th...Continue Reading

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