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Mapping dysfunctional circuits in the frontal cortex using deep brain stimulation.

ABSTRACT: Frontal circuits play a critical role in motor, cognitive and affective processing, and their dysfunction may result in a variety of brain disorders. However, exactly which frontal domains mediate which (dys)functions remains largely elusive. We studied 534 deep brain stimulation electrodes implanted to treat four different brain disorders. By analyzing which connections were modulated for optimal therapeutic response across these disorders, we segregated the frontal cortex into circuits that had become dysfunctional in each of them. Dysfunctional circuits were topographically arranged from occipital to frontal, ranging from interconnections with sensorimotor cortices in dystonia, the primary motor cortex in Tourette's syndrome, the supplementary motor area in Parkinson's disease, to ventromedial prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortices in obsessive-compulsive disorder. Our findings highlight the integration of deep brain stimulation with brain connectomics as a powerful tool to explore couplings between brain structure and functional impairments in the human brain.

SUBMITTER: Hollunder B

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10917675 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Mapping dysfunctional circuits in the frontal cortex using deep brain stimulation.

Hollunder Barbara B Ostrem Jill L JL Sahin Ilkem Aysu IA Rajamani Nanditha N Oxenford Simón S Butenko Konstantin K Neudorfer Clemens C Reinhardt Pablo P Zvarova Patricia P Polosan Mircea M Akram Harith H Vissani Matteo M Zhang Chencheng C Sun Bomin B Navratil Pavel P Reich Martin M MM Volkmann Jens J Yeh Fang-Cheng FC Baldermann Juan Carlos JC Dembek Till A TA Visser-Vandewalle Veerle V Alho Eduardo Joaquim Lopes EJL Franceschini Paulo Roberto PR Nanda Pranav P Finke Carsten C Kühn Andrea A AA Dougherty Darin D DD Richardson R Mark RM Bergman Hagai H DeLong Mahlon R MR Mazzoni Alberto A Romito Luigi M LM Tyagi Himanshu H Zrinzo Ludvic L Joyce Eileen M EM Chabardes Stephan S Starr Philip A PA Li Ningfei N Horn Andreas A

Nature neuroscience 20240222 3

Frontal circuits play a critical role in motor, cognitive and affective processing, and their dysfunction may result in a variety of brain disorders. However, exactly which frontal domains mediate which (dys)functions remains largely elusive. We studied 534 deep brain stimulation electrodes implanted to treat four different brain disorders. By analyzing which connections were modulated for optimal therapeutic response across these disorders, we segregated the frontal cortex into circuits that ha ...[more]

PMID: 38388734

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Mapping dysfunctional circuits in the frontal cortex using deep brain stimulation.

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Mapping dysfunctional circuits in the frontal cortex using deep brain stimulation.

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