Interhemispheric plasticity in humans.
Interhemispheric plasticity in humans.
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DOI:
10.1249/mss.0b013e31820a94b8
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发表时间:
2011-07
影响因子:
4.1
通讯作者:
Hallett M
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作者:
Hortobágyi T;Richardson SP;Lomarev M;Shamim E;Meunier S;Russman H;Dang N;Hallett M
Chronic unimanual motor practice increases the motor output not only in the trained but also in the non-exercised homologous muscle in the opposite limb. We examined the hypothesis that adaptations in motor cortical excitability of the non-trained primary motor cortex (iM1) and in interhemispheric inhibition (IHI) from the trained to the non-trained M1 mediate this inter-limb cross education. Healthy, young volunteers (n = 12) performed 1000 submaximal voluntary contractions (MVC) of the right first dorsal interosseus (FDI) at 80% MVC over 20 sessions. Trained FDI’s MVC increased 49.9% and the untrained FDI’s MVC increased 28.1%. Although corticospinal excitability in iM1, measured with magnetic brain stimulation (TMS) before and after every 5th session, increased 6% at rest, these changes, as those in intracortical inhibition and facilitation, did not correlate with cross education. When weak and strong TMS of iM1 were, respectively, delivered on a background of a weak and strong muscle contraction of the right FDI, excitability of iM1 increased dramatically after 20 sessions. IHI decreased 8.9% acutely within sessions and 30.9% chronically over 20 sessions and these chronic reductions progressively became more strongly associated with cross education. There were no changes in force or TMS measures in the trained group’s left ADM nor were there changes in a non-exercising control group (n = 8). The findings provide the first evidence for plasticity of interhemispheric connections to mediate cross education produced by a simple motor task.