Zacharia, André;
Kaski, Diego;
Bouthour, Walid;
Dayal, Viswas;
Bereau, Matthieu;
Mahlknecht, Philipp;
Georgiev, Dejan;
... Limousin, Patricia; + view all
(2023)
Effects of deep brain stimulation frequency on eye movements and cognitive control.
NPJ Parkinson's Disease
, 9
, Article 50. 10.1038/s41531-023-00470-8.
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Abstract
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the subthalamic nucleus (STN) is an effective treatment for Parkinson's disease (PD). Varying the frequency DBS has differential effects on axial and distal limb functions, suggesting differing modulation of relevant pathways. The STN is also a critical node in oculomotor and associative networks, but the effect of stimulation frequency on these networks remains unknown. This study aimed to investigate the effects of 80 hz vs. 130 Hz frequency STN-DBS on eye movements and executive control. Twenty-one STN-DBS PD patients receiving 130 Hz vs. 80 Hz stimulation were compared to a healthy control group (n = 16). All participants were tested twice in a double-blind manner. We examined prosaccades (latency and gain) and antisaccades (latency of correct and incorrect antisaccades, error rate and gain of the correct antisaccades). Executive function was tested with the Stroop task. The motor condition was assessed using Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale part III. The antisaccadic error rate was higher in patients (p = 0.0113), more so in patients on 80 Hz compared to 130 Hz (p = 0.001) stimulation. The differences between patients and controls and between frequencies for all other eye-movements or cognitive measures were not statistically significant. We show that 80 Hz STN-DBS in PD reduces the ability to maintain stable fixation but does not alter inhibition, resulting in a higher antisaccade error rate presumably due to less efficient fixation, without altering the motor state. This provides a wider range of stimulation parameters that can reduce specific DBS-related effects without affecting motor outcomes.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Effects of deep brain stimulation frequency on eye movements and cognitive control |
| Location: | United States |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41531-023-00470-8 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41531-023-00470-8 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s) 2023. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. 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/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Parkinson's disease |
| 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 Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology > Clinical and Movement Neurosciences |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10168022 |
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