title: Cortical information flow in Parkinson's disease: a composite network/field model.
abstract: The basal ganglia play a crucial role in the execution of movements, as demonstrated by the severe motor deficits that accompany Parkinson's disease (PD). Since motor commands originate in the cortex, an important question is how the basal ganglia influence cortical information flow, and how this influence becomes pathological in PD. To explore this, we developed a composite neuronal network/neural field model. The network model consisted of 4950 spiking neurons, divided into 15 excitatory and inhibitory cell populations in the thalamus and cortex. The field model consisted of the cortex, thalamus, striatum, subthalamic nucleus, and globus pallidus. Both models have been separately validated in previous work. Three field models were used: one with basal ganglia parameters based on data from healthy individuals, one based on data from individuals with PD, and one purely thalamocortical model. Spikes generated by these field models were then used to drive the network model. Compared to the network driven by the healthy model, the PD-driven network had lower firing rates, a shift in spectral power toward lower frequencies, and higher probability of bursting; each of these findings is consistent with empirical data on PD. In the healthy model, we found strong Granger causality between cortical layers in the beta and low gamma frequency bands, but this causality was largely absent in the PD model. In particular, the reduction in Granger causality from the main "input" layer of the cortex (layer 4) to the main "output" layer (layer 5) was pronounced. This may account for symptoms of PD that seem to reflect deficits in information flow, such as bradykinesia. In general, these results demonstrate that the brain's large-scale oscillatory environment, represented here by the field model, strongly influences the information processing that occurs within its subnetworks. Hence, it may be preferable to drive spiking network models with physiologically realistic inputs rather than pure white noise.
authors: Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center Brooklyn, NY, USA ; School of Physics, University of Sydney NSW, Australia ; Brain Dynamics Centre, Westmead Millennium Institute Westmead, NSW, Australia.
authors: Cliff C
authors: CC
authors: Kerr
authors: Sacha J
authors: SJ
authors: Van Albada
authors: Samuel A
authors: SA
authors: Neymotin
authors: George L
authors: GL
authors: Chadderdon
authors: P A
authors: PA
authors: Robinson
authors: William W
authors: WW
authors: Lytton
keywords: Granger causality; Parkinsons's disease; basal ganglia; cortex; interlaminar processing; neural field model; spiking neural networks; thalamus
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