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Received May 3, 2005
Revised June 17, 2005
Accepted after revision August 18, 2005

Movement-related frequency modulation of beta oscillatory activity in the human subthalamic nucleus

Guglielmo Foffani1, Anna M. Bianchi2, Giuseppe Baselli2, and Alberto Priori1*

1 Universita' di Milano, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico
2 Politecnico di Milano

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: alberto.priori{at}unimi.it.

Event-related changes of brain electrical rhythms are typically analyzed as amplitude modulations of local field potential (LFP) oscillations, like radio amplitude modulation broadcasting. In telecommunications, frequency modulation (FM) is less susceptible to interference than amplitude modulation (AM) and is therefore preferred for high-fidelity transmissions. Here we hypothesized that LFP rhythms detected from deep brain stimulation (DBS) electrodes implanted in the subthalamic nucleus (STN) in patients with Parkinson's disease could represent movement-related activity not only in AM but also in FM. By combining adaptive autoregressive identification with spectral power decomposition, we were able to show that FM of low-beta (13-20Hz) and high-beta (20-35Hz) rhythms significantly contribute to the involvement of the human STN in movement preparation, execution and recovery, and that the FM patterns are regulated by the dopaminergic levels in the system. Movement-related FM of beta oscillatory activity in the human subthalamic nucleus therefore provides a novel informational domain for rhythm-based pathophysiological models of cortico-basal ganglia processing.


Key words: Basal ganglia • Movement • Spectral analysis




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