Abstract:
:The transcranial activation and the conduction properties of corticospinal and callosal neurons were investigated in 12 early-treated adolescents (aged 17.3, SD 3.5 years; range 14-27 years) with phenylketonuria (PKU) by focal transcranial magnetic stimulation (fTMS) of the motor cortex. The patients had no functionally relevant motor disturbances in daily life or on clinical testing. Corticospinally mediated excitatory (response thresholds, amplitudes, central motor latencies) and inhibitory [duration of postexcitatory inhibition (PI)] effects of fTMS were investigated in contralateral hand muscles. Transcallosal inhibition (TI) (onset latency, duration, transcallosal latency) of tonic electromyographic (EMG) activity was tested in ipsilateral muscles. Peripheral motor latencies were determined for responses elicited by magnetic stimulation over cervical nerve roots. Ten normal subjects served as controls. Since in all PKU patients, central and peripheral motor latencies were normal, no neurophysiological indication of a demyelination of corticospinal or peripheral motor fibres was found. However, cortical thresholds of corticospinally mediated responses were increased (52.1, SD 11.6% versus 35.0, SD 7.4% of maximum stimulator output; P < 0.05; n = 24 hands) and their amplitudes reduced (2.9, SD 1.4 mV versus 6.1, SD 1.5 mV, P < 0.05). The duration of PI was shortened (132, SD 53 ms versus 178, SD 57 ms; P < 0.05). TI was absent in 37.5% of the investigated hands or tended to be weak. When TI was present, its onset latencies (38.0, SD 3.6 ms versus 34.7, SD 3.3 ms) and transcallosal latencies were prolonged (18.5, SD 3.8 ms versus 14.8, SD 3.2 ms), while its duration was normal. These abnormal excitatory and inhibitory effects of fTMS suggest a reduced susceptibility of cortical excitatory and inhibitory neuronal structures compatible with a loss of neurons or a rarefication of their dendrites.
journal_name
J Neuroljournal_title
Journal of neurologyauthors
Röricht S,Meyer BU,Irlbacher K,Ludolph ACdoi
10.1007/s004150050301subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1999-01-01 00:00:00pages
21-30issue
1eissn
0340-5354issn
1432-1459journal_volume
246pub_type
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