Intracortical inhibition of lower limb motor-evoked potentials after paired transcranial magnetic stimulation

Experimental Brain Research
D S StokićM R Dimitrijević

Abstract

The aim of the present study was to determine the characteristics of intracortical inhibition in the motor cortex areas representing lower limb muscles using paired transcranial magnetic (TMS) and transcranial electrical stimulation (TES) in healthy subjects. In the first paradigm (n=8), paired magnetic stimuli were delivered through a double cone coil and motor evoked potentials (MEPs) were recorded from quadriceps (Q) and tibialis anterior (TA) muscles during relaxation. The conditioning stimulus strength was 5% of the maximum stimulator output below the threshold MEP evoked during weak voluntary contraction of TA (33+/-5%). The test stimulus (67+/-2%) was 10% of the stimulator output above the MEP threshold in the relaxed TA. Interstimulus intervals (ISIs) from 1-15 ms were examined. Conditioned TA MEPs were significantly suppressed (P<0.01) at ISIs of less than 5 ms (relative amplitude from 20-50% of the control). TA MEPs tended to be only slightly facilitated at 9-ms and 10-ms ISIs. The degree of MEP suppression was not different between right and left TA muscles despite the significant difference in size of the control responses (P<0.001). Also, conditioned MEPs were not significantly different between Q and TA. The time ...Continue Reading

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