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Brain oscillations reflecting pain-related behavior in freely-moving rats

Peng, WW; Xia, XL; Yi, M; Huang, G; Zhang, ZG; Iannetti, GD; Hu, L; (2018) Brain oscillations reflecting pain-related behavior in freely-moving rats. Pain , 159 (1) pp. 106-118. 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001069. Green open access

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Abstract

Recording oscillatory brain activity holds great promise in pain research. However, experimental results are variable and often difficult to reconcile. Some of these inconsistencies arise from the use of hypothesis-driven analysis approaches that do not assess the consistency of the observed responses within- and across-individuals, and do not fully exploit information sampled across the entire cortex. Here we address these issues by recording the electrocorticogram directly from the brain surface of 12 freely-moving rats. Using a hypothesis-free approach we isolated brain oscillations induced by graded nociceptive stimuli, and characterized their relation to pain-related behavior. We isolated four responses, one phase-locked event-related potential, two non-phase-locked event-related synchronizations (ERS), and one non-phase-locked desynchronization (ERD), in different frequency bands (δ/θ-ERD, θ/α-ERS, γ-ERS). All responses except the δ/θ-ERD correlated with pain-related behavior at within-subject level. Notably, the γ-ERS was the only response that reliably correlated with pain-related behavior between subjects. These results comprehensively characterize the physiological properties of the brain oscillations elicited by nociceptive stimuli in freely-moving rodents, and provide a foundational work to improve the translation of experimental animal findings to human physiology and pathophysiology.

Type: Article
Title: Brain oscillations reflecting pain-related behavior in freely-moving rats
Location: United States
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001069
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001069
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright © 2017 The Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. on behalf of the International Association for the Study of Pain. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CCBY) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Keywords: Brain oscillations, Pain, Animal models, Electrocorticography, Gamma-band event-related synchronization (g-ERS)
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences > Neuro, Physiology and Pharmacology
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10041862
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