Human caudate nucleus subdivisions in tinnitus modulation.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The object of this study was to define caudate nucleus locations responsive to intraoperative direct electrical stimulation for tinnitus loudness modulation and relate those locations to functional connectivity maps between caudate nucleus subdivisions and auditory cortex.

Methods

Six awake study participants who underwent bilateral deep brain stimulation (DBS) electrode placement in the caudate nucleus as part of a phase I clinical trial were analyzed for tinnitus modulation in response to acute stimulation at 20 locations. Resting-state 3-T functional MRI (fMRI) was used to compare connectivity strength between centroids of tinnitus loudness-reducing or loudness-nonreducing caudate locations and the auditory cortex in the 6 DBS phase I trial participants and 14 o

SUBMITTER: Perez PL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6687562 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature