Real-time imaging of human cortical activity evoked by painful esophageal stimulation

Hobson, Anthony R., Furlong, Paul L., Worthen, Sian F., Hillebrand, Arjan, Barnes, Gareth R., Singh, Krish Devi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3094-2475 and Aziz, Qasim 2005. Real-time imaging of human cortical activity evoked by painful esophageal stimulation. Gastroenterology 128 (3) , pp. 610-619. 10.1053/j.gastro.2004.12.033

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Background & aims: Current models of visceral pain processing derived from metabolic brain imaging techniques fail to differentiate between exogenous (stimulus-dependent) and endogenous (non-stimulus-specific) neural activity. The aim of this study was to determine the spatiotemporal correlates of exogenous neural activity evoked by painful esophageal stimulation. Methods: In 16 healthy subjects (8 men; mean age, 30.2 ± 2.2 years), we recorded magnetoencephalographic responses to 2 runs of 50 painful esophageal electrical stimuli originating from 8 brain subregions. Subsequently, 11 subjects (6 men; mean age, 31.2 ± 1.8 years) had esophageal cortical evoked potentials recorded on a separate occasion by using similar experimental parameters. Results: Earliest cortical activity (P1) was recorded in parallel in the primary/secondary somatosensory cortex and posterior insula (∼85 ms). Significantly later activity was seen in the anterior insula (∼103 ms) and cingulate cortex (∼106 ms; P = .0001). There was no difference between the P1 latency for magnetoencephalography and cortical evoked potential (P = .16); however, neural activity recorded with cortical evoked potential was longer than with magnetoencephalography (P = .001). No sex differences were seen for psychophysical or neurophysiological measures. Conclusions: This study shows that exogenous cortical neural activity evoked by experimental esophageal pain is processed simultaneously in somatosensory and posterior insula regions. Activity in the anterior insula and cingulate—brain regions that process the affective aspects of esophageal pain—occurs significantly later than in the somatosensory regions, and no sex differences were observed with this experimental paradigm. Cortical evoked potential reflects the summation of cortical activity from these brain regions and has sufficient temporal resolution to separate exogenous and endogenous neural activity.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Psychology Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute (NMHRI)
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	0016-5085
Last Modified:	20 Oct 2022 09:39
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/32705

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