Single and paired-pulse electrical stimulation during invasive EEG recordings

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• 作者：S. Boulogne^a ; ^b ; P. Ryvlin^c ; S. Rheims^a ; ^b ; ^{sylvain.rheims@univ-lyon1.fr" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}
• 关键词：Single-pulse electrical stimulation ; Paired-pulse electrical stimulation ; Direct electrical stimulation ; Cortical excitability ; Epilepsy surgery
• 刊名：Revue Neurologique
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：March 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：172
• 期：3
• 页码：174-181
• 全文大小：1158 K

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Invasive EEG recordings are frequently required during the presurgical exploration of patients with drug-resistant focal epilepsy in order to clarify the epileptic zone location. Intracranial direct electrical stimulations (DES) induce EEG and/or clinical responses that participate in this evaluation. Clinical DES protocols (1 Hz and/or 50 Hz) trigger massive cortical activation that can elicit seizures, after-discharges or complex clinical signs. In contrast, low-energy (< 1 Hz) protocols activate more localized cortical regions using single-pulse electrical stimulations (SPES). SPES can elicit two main types of responses. Cortico-cortical evoked potentials (CCEPs) correspond to highly consistent early responses, appearing before 100 ms after stimulation, with fixed latency; they are considered physiological and assess the effective connectivity between the recorded regions. Late responses appear after 100 ms; they are rare, inconsistent with variable latency and are suggestive of an underlying epileptogenic cortex. Paired-pulse stimulation paradigm associates a conditioning and a test stimulation to induce intracortical inhibition or facilitation by modifying the response amplitude. Largely used in transcranial magnetic stimulation, it has rarely been applied to CCEP although the mechanisms put in place seem highly similar. Low frequency intracerebral stimulations allow analysing brain connectivity and cortical excitability with a high temporal and spatial resolution. The development of new stimulation protocols and the combination with imaging or statistical techniques recently offered promising results.