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The neural basis of touch and proprioception in the primate orofacial sensorimotor cortex

灵长类口面部感觉运动皮层触觉和本体感觉的神经基础

基本信息

批准号：
9895722
负责人：
Fritzie Arce-McShane
金额：
$ 54.38万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2018
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2018-04-06 至 2023-03-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9895722
关键词：
3-Dimensional Anatomy Animals Area Behavior Brain Breathing Chronic Complex Cranial Nerves Deglutition Deglutition Disorders Dental Implants Development Disease Dissociation Dystonia Esthesia Evaluation Exhibits Face Feeding behaviors Fiber Food Future Gingiva Goals Hand Hypoglossal nerve structure Impairment Implant Jaw Knowledge Location Macaca mulatta Mandible Maps Mastication Maxilla Mediating Microelectrodes Modality Monkeys Morphology Motion Motor Motor Neurons Movement Muscle Nerve Nerve Block Nervous System Trauma Neuraxis Neurons Oral Orofacial Pain Pain Pain Disorder Palate Play Population Positioning Attribute Posture Primates Property Proprioception Quality of life Research Roentgen Rays Sensory Shapes Signal Transduction Speech Spinal Dorsal Nerve Stimulus Structure System Tactile Temporomandibular Joint Disorders Testing Time Tongue Tooth structure Touch sensation Trigeminal Nerve Diseases Trigeminal Neuralgia Trigeminal System Trigeminal nerve structure Work arm brain machine interface chronic pain density design feeding grasp innovation insight jaw movement kinematics lingual nerve microstimulation multi-electrode arrays nerve injury nerve supply nonhuman primate novel orofacial receptive field reconstruction relating to nervous system response restoration sensory feedback sensory input somatosensory spatiotemporal spinal nerve posterior root temporal measurement tongue biomechanics treatment strategy

项目摘要

PROJECT SUMMARY There is a fundamental gap in understanding the cortical representations and integration of tactile and proprio- ceptive sensations accompanying bodily movements in general and oromotor behavior in particular. This repre- sents an important problem because until it is understood, the mechanisms underlying orofacial pain, sensorimo- tor impairments, and sensorimotor integration will remain largely incomprehensible. The goal of the proposed research is to dissociate the cortical representations of touch and proprioception during natural feeding behavior by using an innovative sequence of nerve blocks together with multi-electrode array recordings and 3D tracking of tongue and jaw movements in non-human primates. The tongue is a unique structure for investigating this because it is in constant motion and assumes various postures when touching other oral structures (e.g., teeth, palate, and gingiva) during feeding. More importantly, the tactile and proprioceptive afferent fibers innervating the tongue enter the central nervous system separately in trigeminal (lingual nerve branch) and hypoglossal cranial nerves, respectively. Such unique anatomy enables experimental dissociation of touch and propriocep- tion. The central hypothesis is that tongue posture and contact with other oral structures are reflected in the proprioception- and tactile-related responses of neurons in the primary somatosensory (SIo) and primary motor (MIo) areas of the orofacial sensorimotor cortex (OSMcx). This hypothesis will be tested by pursuing three spe- cific aims: (1) determine how information about tongue posture and contact with other oral structures is encoded in MIo and SIo during natural feeding by eliminating tactile stimuli to the tongue and surrounding oral structures through sequential nerve blocks to the maxillary and mandibular sensory branches of the trigeminal nerve, (2) dissociate the neurons’ motor response from a proprioceptive response by using intracortical microstimulation (ICMS) to evoke muscle twitches while tactile inputs to the tongue and other oral structures are blocked, and (3) characterize the functional connectivity between tactile- and proprioceptive-related regions in OSMcx by spectral coherence analysis and by the effects of low-intensity ICMS of a tactile region on a proprioceptive one and vice versa. The proposed research uses an innovative approach that leverages the unique sensory innervation of the oral region by different cranial nerves and integrates the simultaneous neural recording and tracking of the tongue and jaw movements in 3D. The proposed research is significant because it will bridge the results of decades of research on cortical representation of oral somatosensation and on the biomechanics of tongue/jaw movements during oromotor behavior, thus filling an important gap in the field. The knowledge gained from this work will lay the groundwork for future studies on oral somatosensation, pain mechanisms, and sensorimotor integration. Ultimately such knowledge has the potential to inform the development of strategies for treatment of sensory impairments associated with dental implants, trigeminal neuralgia, temporomandibular disorders, orofa- cial pain, and for the restoration of sensory feedback for use in brain-machine interface.

项目总结