eprintid: 10086245 rev_number: 18 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/10/08/62/45 datestamp: 2019-11-20 10:30:21 lastmod: 2021-10-04 01:14:36 status_changed: 2019-11-20 10:30:21 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Ibáñez, J creators_name: Spampinato, DA creators_name: Paraneetharan, V creators_name: Rothwell, JC title: SICI during changing brain states: Differences in methodology can lead to different conclusions ispublished: inpress divisions: UCL divisions: B02 divisions: C07 divisions: D07 divisions: F84 keywords: Transcranial magnetic stimulation, Short intra-cortical inhibition, Movement preparation, Preparatory inhibitio note: This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, which permits any non-commercial use, sharing, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, and provide a link to the Creative Commons license. You do not have permission under this license to share adapted material derived from this article or parts of it. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. abstract: Background: Short-latency intracortical inhibition (SICI) is extensively used to probe GABAergic inhibitory mechanisms in M1. Task-related changes in SICI are presumed to reflect changes in the central excitability of GABAergic pathways. Usually, the level of SICI is evaluated using a single intensity of conditioning stimulus so that inhibition can be compared in different brain states. Objective: Here, we show that this approach may sometimes be inadequate since distinct conclusions can be drawn if a different CS intensity is used. Methods: We measured SICI using a range of CS intensities at rest and during a warned simple reaction time task. Conclusions: Our results show that SICI changes that occurred during the task could be either larger or smaller than at rest depending on the intensity of the CS. These findings indicate that careful interpretation of results are needed when a single intensity of CS is used to measure task-related physiological changes. date: 2019-11-04 date_type: published official_url: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brs.2019.11.002 oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1719802 doi: 10.1016/j.brs.2019.11.002 pii: S1935-861X(19)30433-4 lyricists_name: Ibanez Pereda, Jaime lyricists_name: Rothwell, John lyricists_name: Spampinato, Danny lyricists_id: JIBAN30 lyricists_id: JCROT52 lyricists_id: DSPAM75 actors_name: Flynn, Bernadette actors_id: BFFLY94 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: Brain Stimulation event_location: United States citation: Ibáñez, J; Spampinato, DA; Paraneetharan, V; Rothwell, JC; (2019) SICI during changing brain states: Differences in methodology can lead to different conclusions. Brain Stimulation 10.1016/j.brs.2019.11.002 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brs.2019.11.002>. (In press). Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10086245/1/1-s2.0-S1935861X19304334-main.pdf