title: Non-dominant hand movement facilitates the frontal N30 somatosensory evoked potential.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Previous literature has shown that the frontal N30 is increased during movement of the hand contralateral to median nerve stimulation. This finding was a result of non-dominant left hand movement in right-handed participants. It is unclear however if the effect depends upon non-dominant hand movement or if this is a generalized phenomenon across the upper-limbs. This study tests the effect of dominant and non-dominant hand movement upon contralateral frontal and parietal somatosensory evoked potentials (SEPs) and further tests if this relationship persists in left hand dominant participants. Median nerve SEPs were elicited from the wrist contralateral to movement in both right hand and left hand dominant participants alternating the movement hand in separate blocks. Participants were required to volitionally squeeze (~20% of a maximal voluntary contraction) a pressure-sensitive bulb every ~3 seconds with the hand contralateral to median nerve stimulation. SEPs were continuously collected during the task and individual traces were grouped into time bins relative to movement according to the timing of components of the Bereitschaftspotential. SEPs were then averaged and quantified from both FCZ and CP3/4 scalp electrode sites during both the squeeze task and at rest.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The N30 is facilitated during non-dominant hand movement in both right and left hand dominant individuals. There was no effect for dominant hand movement in either group.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  N30 amplitude increase may be a result of altered sensory gating from motor areas known to be specifically active during non-dominant hand movement.
authors.affiliation: Department of Kinesiology, University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave, West, Waterloo, Ontario N2L3G1, Canada.
authors.forename: Wynn
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Legon
authors.forename: Jennifer K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Dionne
authors.forename: Sean K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Meehan
authors.forename: W Richard
authors.initials: WR
authors.lastname: Staines
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001479:Basal Ganglia / Q000502:physiology; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D004558:Electric Stimulation; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004576:Electromyography; D005073:Evoked Potentials, Somatosensory / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000502:physiology*; D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000502:physiology*; D006225:Hand / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009044:Motor Cortex / Q000502:physiology; D009068:Movement / Q000502:physiology*; D009415:Nerve Net / Q000502:physiology; D010296:Parietal Lobe / Q000502:physiology; D013003:Somatosensory Cortex / Q000502:physiology; D055815:Young Adult
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