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Statistical Modelling of Cortical Connectivity Using Non-invasive Electroencephalograms
Published on: November 1, 2019
Patterns of axono-cortical evoked potentials: an electrophysiological signature unique to each white matter
Anthony Boyer1, Chloé Stengel2, François Bonnetblanc3
1Brain Stimulation and Systems Neuroscience, INSERM, U1216, Grenoble, France.
Background:
Brain-to-brain evoked potentials constitute a new methodology that could help to understand the network-level correlates of electrical stimulation applied for brain mapping during tumor resection. In this paper, we aimed to describe the characteristics of axono-cortical evoked potentials recorded from distinct, but in the same patient, behaviorally eloquent white matter sites.
Methods:
We report the intraoperative white matter mapping and axono-cortical evoked potentials recordings observed in a patient operated on under awake condition of a diffuse low-grade glioma in the left middle frontal gyrus. Out of the eight behaviorally eloquent sites identified with 60-Hz electrical stimulation, five were probed with single electrical pulses (delivered at 1 Hz), while recording evoked potentials on two electrodes, covering the inferior frontal gyrus and the precentral gyrus, respectively. Postoperative diffusion-weighted MRI was used to reconstruct the tractograms passing through each of the five stimulated sites.
Results:
Each stimulated site generated an ACEP on at least one of the recorded electrode contacts. The whole pattern-i.e., the specific contacts with ACEPs and their waveform-was distinct for each of the five stimulated sites.
Conclusions:
We found that the patterns of ACEPs provided unique electrophysiological signatures for each of the five white matter functional sites. Our results could ultimately provide neurosurgeons with a new tool of intraoperative electrophysiologically based functional guidance.
