George C. O'Neill
Imaging human cortical responses to intraneural microstimulation using magnetoencephalography
O'Neill, George C.; Watkins, Roger H.; Ackerley, Rochelle; Barratt, Eleanor L.; Sengupta, Ayan; Asghar, Michael; Sanchez Panchuelo, Rosa Maria; Brookes, Matthew J.; Glover, Paul M.; Wessberg, Johan; Francis, Susan T.
Authors
Roger H. Watkins
Rochelle Ackerley
Eleanor L. Barratt
Ayan Sengupta
Michael Asghar
Rosa Maria Sanchez Panchuelo
MATTHEW BROOKES MATTHEW.BROOKES@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Professor of Physics
PAUL GLOVER paul.glover@nottingham.ac.uk
Associate Professor
Johan Wessberg
Professor SUSAN FRANCIS susan.francis@nottingham.ac.uk
Professor of Physics
Abstract
The sensation of touch in the glabrous skin of the human hand is conveyed by thousands of fast-conducting mechanoreceptive afferents, which can be categorised into four distinct types. The spiking properties of these afferents in the periphery in response to varied tactile stimuli are well-characterised, but relatively little is known about the spatiotemporal properties of the neural representations of these different receptor types in the human cortex. Here, we use the novel methodological combination of single-unit intraneural microstimulation (INMS) with magnetoencephalography (MEG) to localise cortical representations of individual touch afferents in humans, by measuring the extracranial magnetic fields from neural currents. We found that by assessing the modulation of the beta (13-30 Hz) rhythm during single-unit INMS, significant changes in oscillatory amplitude occur in the contralateral primary somatosensory cortex within and across a group of fast adapting type I mechanoreceptive afferents, which corresponded well to the induced response from matched vibrotactile stimulation. Combining the spatiotemporal specificity of MEG with the selective single-unit stimulation of INMS enables the interrogation of the central representations of different aspects of tactile afferent signalling within the human cortices. The fundamental finding that single-unit INMS ERD responses are robust and consistent with natural somatosensory stimuli will permit us to more dynamically probe the central nervous system responses in humans, to address questions about the processing of touch from the different classes of mechanoreceptive afferents and the effects of varying the stimulus frequency and patterning.
Citation
O'Neill, G. C., Watkins, R. H., Ackerley, R., Barratt, E. L., Sengupta, A., Asghar, M., …Francis, S. T. (2019). Imaging human cortical responses to intraneural microstimulation using magnetoencephalography. NeuroImage, 189, 329-340. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.01.017
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jan 8, 2019 |
Online Publication Date | Jan 9, 2019 |
Publication Date | Apr 1, 2019 |
Deposit Date | Jan 22, 2019 |
Publicly Available Date | Feb 1, 2019 |
Journal | NeuroImage |
Print ISSN | 1053-8119 |
Electronic ISSN | 1095-9572 |
Publisher | Elsevier |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 189 |
Pages | 329-340 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.01.017 |
Keywords | Cognitive Neuroscience; Neurology |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1487657 |
Publisher URL | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811919300175?via%3Dihub |
Contract Date | Jan 22, 2019 |
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