Subthalamic Nucleus and Sensorimotor Cortex Activity During Speech Production

• Autores: Chrabaszcz, Anna; Neumann, Wolf Julian; Stretcu, Otilia; Lipski, Witold J.; Dastolfo Hromack, Christina A.; Bush, Alan; Wang, Dengyu; Crammond, Donald J.; Shaiman, Susan; Dickey, Michael W.; Holt, Lori L.; Turner, Robert S.; Fiez, Julie A.; Richardson, R. Mark
• Año de publicación: 2019
• Idioma: inglés
• Tipo de recurso: artículo
• Materia: DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; PARKINSON’S DISEASE; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SPEECH; SUBTHALAMIC NUCLEUS
• Institución: Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

The sensorimotor cortex is somatotopically organized to represent the vocal tract articulators such as lips, tongue, larynx, and jaw. How speech and articulatory features are encoded at the subcortical level, however, remains largely unknown. We analyzed LFP recordings from the subthalamic nucleus (STN) and simultaneous electrocorticography recordings from the sensorimotor cortex of 11 human subjects (1 female) with Parkinson´s disease during implantation of deep-brain stimulation (DBS) electrodes while they read aloud three-phoneme words. The initial phonemes involved either articulation primarily with the tongue (coronal consonants) or the lips (labial consonants). We observed significant increases in high-gamma (60?150 Hz) power in both the STN and the sensorimotor cortex that began before speech onset and persisted for the duration of speech articulation. As expected from previous reports, in the sensorimotor cortex, the primary articulators involved in the production of the initial consonants were topographically represented by high-gamma activity. We found that STN high-gamma activity also demonstrated specificity for the primary articulator, although no clear topography was observed. In general, subthalamic high-gamma activity varied along the ventral?dorsal trajectory of the electrodes, with greater high-gamma power recorded in the dorsal locations of the STN. Interestingly, the majority of significant articulator-discriminative activity in the STN occurred before that in sensorimotor cortex. These results demonstrate that articulator-specific speech information is contained within high-gamma activity of the STN, but with different spatial and temporal organization compared with similar information encoded in the sensorimotor cortex.
Fil: Chrabaszcz, Anna. University of Pittsburgh; Estados Unidos
Fil: Neumann, Wolf Julian. Universität zu Berlin; Alemania
Fil: Stretcu, Otilia. University of Pittsburgh; Estados Unidos
Fil: Lipski, Witold J.. University of Pittsburgh; Estados Unidos
Fil: Dastolfo Hromack, Christina A.. University of Pittsburgh; Estados Unidos
Fil: Bush, Alan. University of Pittsburgh; Estados Unidos. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Física de Buenos Aires. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Física de Buenos Aires; Argentina
Fil: Wang, Dengyu. Tsinghua University; China. University of Pittsburgh; Estados Unidos
Fil: Crammond, Donald J.. University of Pittsburgh; Estados Unidos
Fil: Shaiman, Susan. University of Pittsburgh; Estados Unidos
Fil: Dickey, Michael W.. University of Pittsburgh; Estados Unidos
Fil: Holt, Lori L.. University of Pittsburgh; Estados Unidos
Fil: Turner, Robert S.. University of Pittsburgh; Estados Unidos
Fil: Fiez, Julie A.. University of Pittsburgh; Estados Unidos
Fil: Richardson, R. Mark. University of Pittsburgh; Estados Unidos