Abnormal Somatosensory Synchronization in Patients With Paroxysmal Kinesigenic Dyskinesia: A Magnetoencephalographic Study

Fu Jung Hsiao*, Wan Yu Hsu, Wei Ta Chen, Rou Shayn Chen, Yung Yang Lin

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Abstract

Paroxysmal kinesigenic dyskinesia (PKD) is a rare group of hyperkinetic movement disorders characterized by brief attacks of choreoathetosis or dystonia. To clarify the alterations of the functional connectivity within the somatosensory network in PKD patients, magnetoencephalographic (MEG) responses to paired median-nerve electrical stimulation were recorded in 10 PKD patients treated by carbamazepine or oxcarbamazepine and 22 age-matched controls. In patients, MEG recordings were obtained during drug-on and -off periods. Source-based functional connectivity analysis was performed between contralateral primary (cSI) and secondary (cSII), and ipsilateral secondary (iSII) somatosensory areas. During drug-off periods, patients with PKD demonstrated decreased cSI-iSII and increased cSII-iSII somatosensory connectivity at theta band. Drug-on periods lowered the functional connectivity in cSI-cSII at alpha and beta bands and in cSII-iSII at theta band compared with the drug-off periods. We suggest that altered theta functional connectivity in cSI-iSII and cSII-iSII could be the neurophysiological signatures in PKD.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)288-294
Number of pages7
JournalClinical EEG and Neuroscience
Volume48
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jul 2017

Keywords

  • antiepileptic drugs (AEDs)
  • functional connectivity
  • magnetoencephalagraphy (MEG)
  • paroxysmal kinesigenic dyskinesia (PKD)
  • somatosensory evoked fields

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