Cortical Gamma-oscillations Modulated by Visuomotor Tasks: Intracranial Recording in Patients with Epilepsy

Overview

Journal Epilepsy Behav

Specialties Neurology
Psychology
Social Sciences

Date 2010 Jun 29

PMID 20580900

Citations 11

Authors

Tetsuro Nagasawa

Robert Rothermel

Csaba Juhasz

Masaaki Nishida

Sandeep Sood

Eishi Asano

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Abstract

We determined how visuomotor tasks modulated gamma-oscillations on electrocorticography in epileptic patients who underwent epilepsy surgery. Each visual-cue consisted of either a sentence or hand gesture instructing the subject to press or not to press the button. Regardless of the recorded hemisphere, viewing sentence and gesture cues elicited gamma-augmentation sequentially in the lateral-polar occipital and inferior occipital-temporal areas; subsequently, button-press movement elicited gamma-augmentation in the Rolandic area. The magnitudes of gamma-augmentation in the Rolandic and inferior occipital-temporal areas were larger when the hand contralateral to the recorded hemisphere was used for motor responses. A double dissociation was found in the left inferior occipital-temporal cortex in one subject; the lateral portion had greater gamma-augmentation elicited by a sentence-cue, whereas the medial portion had greater gamma-augmentation elicited by a gesture-cue. The present study has increased our understanding of the physiology of the human visuomotor system.

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