NERVE IMPULSE PROPAGATION ALONG CENTRAL AND PERIPHERAL FAST CONDUCTING MOTOR AND SENSORY PATHWAYS IN MAN
NERVE IMPULSE PROPAGATION ALONG CENTRAL AND PERIPHERAL FAST CONDUCTING MOTOR AND SENSORY PATHWAYS IN MAN
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DOI:
10.1016/0013-4694(85)90006-9
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发表时间:
1985-01-01
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STANZIONE, P
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ROSSINI, PM;DISTEFANO, E;STANZIONE, P
Limbs (44) from 11 healthy volunteers were examined. Spinal and scalp somatosensory evoked potentials to median and peroneal nerve stimulation were recorded and the peripheral (wrist-Erb, Erb-cervical, knee-thoracic spine) and central (cervical-scalp, thoracic-cervical spine, spine-scalp) conduction times and velocities (CT, CV) were calculated. Sensory and mixed trunks of median and peroneal nerves were also stimulated and their motor and sensory CV in mid-distal districts were measured. Motor reponses to scalp (motor areas for hand and leg muscles) and spinal cord stimulation (cervical and lower thoracic levels) were carried out through skin rectangular plate electrodes delivering high voltage (880-1870 V) brief anodal pulses. The intracranial (scalp-cervical) and intraspinal (cervical-thoracic spine) CT and CV of motor pathways were measured. The elbow-cervical and knee-thoracic spines CT of motor fibers were also calculated through the F wave method, which gave values almost superimposable on those obtained through direct spine stimulation. Nerve propagation was faster in sensory than in motor fibers in peripheral nerver mid-distal districts, while this difference was reduced or reversed in more proximal segments, including nerve roots. The scalp-cervical CT was slightly shorter in motor than in sensory fibers after subtraction of synaptic delays (6.12 vs. 6.18 ms). The scalp-lower thoracic spine, as well as the intraspinal, CV were 7-12% faster in sensory than in motor pathways (45.3 vs. 38.7 m/s for the former; 62.65 vs 55.4 m/s for the latter). Fast conducting motor and sensory pathways were evaluated along central and peripheral nerve structures of the entire body with this method. Preliminary findings on scalp stimulation of brain motor areas with low voltage pulses are also included.