title: Electrocorticographic activity over sensorimotor cortex and motor function in awake behaving rats.
abstract: Sensorimotor cortex exerts both short-term and long-term control over the spinal reflex pathways that serve motor behaviors. Better understanding of this control could offer new possibilities for restoring function after central nervous system trauma or disease. We examined the impact of ongoing sensorimotor cortex (SMC) activity on the largely monosynaptic pathway of the H-reflex, the electrical analog of the spinal stretch reflex. In 41 awake adult rats, we measured soleus electromyographic (EMG) activity, the soleus H-reflex, and electrocorticographic activity over the contralateral SMC while rats were producing steady-state soleus EMG activity. Principal component analysis of electrocorticographic frequency spectra before H-reflex elicitation consistently revealed three frequency bands: μβ (5-30 Hz), low γ (γ1; 40-85 Hz), and high γ (γ2; 100-200 Hz). Ongoing (i.e., background) soleus EMG amplitude correlated negatively with μβ power and positively with γ1 power. In contrast, H-reflex size correlated positively with μβ power and negatively with γ1 power, but only when background soleus EMG amplitude was included in the linear model. These results support the hypothesis that increased SMC activation (indicated by decrease in μβ power and/or increase in γ1 power) simultaneously potentiates the H-reflex by exciting spinal motoneurons and suppresses it by decreasing the efficacy of the afferent input. They may help guide the development of new rehabilitation methods and of brain-computer interfaces that use SMC activity as a substitute for lost or impaired motor outputs.
authors: Laboratory of Neural Injury and Repair, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York; and State University of New York, Albany, New York cboulay@uottawa.ca.
authors: Chadwick B
authors: CB
authors: Boulay
authors: Laboratory of Neural Injury and Repair, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York; and State University of New York, Albany, New York.
authors: Xiang Yang
authors: XY
authors: Chen
authors: Laboratory of Neural Injury and Repair, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York; and State University of New York, Albany, New York.
authors: Jonathan R
authors: JR
authors: Wolpaw
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal / Q000502:physiology; D000069280:Electrocorticography / Q000379:methods; D019054:Evoked Potentials, Motor / Q000502:physiology*; D005073:Evoked Potentials, Somatosensory / Q000502:physiology*; D006181:H-Reflex / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D009119:Muscle Contraction / Q000502:physiology*; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000294:innervation / Q000502:physiology*; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D066191:Sensorimotor Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D014851:Wakefulness / Q000502:physiology
keywords: H-reflex; brain-computer interface; cortex; motor control; spinal cord
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