Sensorimotor integration in patients with parkinsonian type multisystem atrophy.
Sensorimotor integration is an essential feature of the central nervous system that contributes to the accurate performance of motor tasks. Some patients with multiple system atrophy with parkinsonian features (MSAp) exhibit clinical signs compatible with an abnormal central nervous system excitability to somatosensory inputs, such as action myoclonus or enhanced cutaneo-muscular reflexes. To investigate further the site where such dysfunction in sensorimotor integration takes place, we examined the inhibitory effects of a cutaneous afferent volley at two different levels of the motor system in 10 MSAp patients and in 10 age-matched healthy volunteers. Electrical digital nerve stimuli were given as the conditioning stimulus for the motor evoked potentials (MEP) elicited by transcranial magnetic stimulation in hand muscles, and for the blink reflex responses obtained in the orbicularis oculi muscles by supraorbital nerve stimulation. Intervals for the conditioning were 20 to 50 ms for the MEP and 90 to 110 ms for the blink reflex. The MEP was significantly inhibited in test trials in healthy volunteers, reaching a mean of 32% of the baseline values at the ISI of 35 ms. Significant inhibition occurred also in the blink reflex, in which the R2 response was a mean of 12% of baseline values at the ISI of 100 ms. The inhibitory effects were abnormally reduced in 8 patients on the MEP, and in 7 patients on the blink reflex. There were significant group differences between patients and control subjects in the size of the conditioned MEP and blink reflex. These results suggest that sensorimotor integration is abnormal in patients with MSAp in at least two central nervous system sites: the sensorimotor cortex, and the brainstem reticular formation.
Mascia
M M
MM
Unitat d'EMG. Servei de Neurologia, Hospital Clínic, Villarroel,170, Barcelona 08036, Spain. jvalls@clinic.ub.es
Valls-Solé
J
J
Martí
M J
MJ
Salazar
G
G
D000368:Aged; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001767:Blinking / Q000502:physiology* / Q000528:radiation effects; D004576:Electromyography; D005073:Evoked Potentials, Somatosensory / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D019578:Multiple System Atrophy / Q000503:physiopathology*; D009433:Neural Inhibition / Q000502:physiology; D020734:Parkinsonian Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology*; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology / Q000528:radiation effects; D050781:Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation / Q000379:methods
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