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This technique provides insight into how sensory information is integrated into motor planning and execution. The implementation of controllable pulse parameter TMS enables us to identify specific sensory to motor pathways and how these pathways may be disrupted in neurological disorders. Motor scale acquisition and performance requires a fine balance between the conscious declarative and subconscious procedural process.
Short latency afferent inhibition is a potential marker of how cognition may shape different procedural sensory motor circuits in the motor cortex of healthy and clinical populations. afferent inhibition quantifies the impact of afferent inputs on motor cortical output as elicited by transcranial magnetic stimulation. As a measure of sensory motor integration, it compliments functional magnetic resonance imaging and on electroencephalography by probing the contributions of specific neuronal populations on global hemodynamic and electrical responses elicited by skilled motor behavior.
The lock parameters of magnetic stimuli generated by traditional transcranial magnetic stimulators recruit a mixture of sensory motor circuits. On the other hand, controllable pulse parameter transcranial magnetic stimulators unlock several stimulus parameters, enhancing the specificity of sensory motor circuits probed by afferent inhibition during skilled behavior. Assessing sensory motor inhibition during performance is critical to establishing markers of skilled and unskilled motor execution.
Reliable and valid markers are an important step in developing enhanced models of motor control that will enhance or boost best practices in healthy populations, as well as minimize the impact of movement disorders through effective clinical interventions. Enhanced modeling of sensory motor circuits and the factors that influence their function can help provide objective markers of function and dysfunction that will inform best practices for motor performance, skill acquisition, and rehabilitation in both healthy and neurological populations. Continued definition of psychomotor and pharmacological influences over sensory motor circuits converging in motor cortex is critical.
Combining afferent inhibition with electroencephalography provides an exciting opportunity to quantify afferent inhibition in non-motor areas as a marker of movement disorders and neuropsychiatric disorders.
Short-latency afferent inhibition (SAI) is a transcranial magnetic stimulation protocol to probe sensorimotor integration. This article describes how SAI can be used to study the convergent sensorimotor loops in the motor cortex during sensorimotor behavior.
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Graham, K. R., Hayes, K. D., Meehan, S. K. Combined Peripheral Nerve Stimulation and Controllable Pulse Parameter Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation to Probe Sensorimotor Control and Learning. J. Vis. Exp. (194), e65212, doi:10.3791/65212 (2023).
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