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Article Dans Une Revue Scientific Reports Année : 2018

Convergence of sensory and limbic noxious input into the anterior insula and the emergence of pain from nociception

Hélène Bastuji
Maud Frot
Caroline Perchet
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Koichi Hagiwara
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Luis Garcia-Larrea
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Two parallel di-synaptic routes convey nociceptive input to the telencephalon: the spino-thalamic system projecting principally to the posterior insula, and the spino-parabrachial pathway reaching the amygdalar nucleus. Interplay between the two systems underlies the sensory and emotional aspects of pain, and was explored here in humans with simultaneous recordings from the amygdala, posterior and anterior insulae. Onsets of thermo-nociceptive responses were virtually identical in the posterior insula and the amygdalar complex, but no significant functional connectivity was detected between them using coherence analysis. Anterior insular sectors responded with ~30 ms delay relative to both the posterior insula and the amygdala. While intra-insular functional correlation was significant during the whole analysis period, coherence between the anterior insula and the amygdala became significant after 700 ms of processing. Phase lags indicated information transfer initially directed from the amygdalar complex to the insula. Parallel but independent activation of sensory and limbic nociceptive networks appear to converge in the anterior insula in less than one second. While the anterior insula is often considered as providing input into the limbic system, our results underscore its reverse role, i.e., receiving and integrating very rapidly limbic with sensory input, to initiate a perceptual decision on the stimulus 'painfulness'.
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hal-02472456 , version 1 (10-02-2020)

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Hélène Bastuji, Maud Frot, Caroline Perchet, Koichi Hagiwara, Luis Garcia-Larrea. Convergence of sensory and limbic noxious input into the anterior insula and the emergence of pain from nociception. Scientific Reports, 2018, 8 (1), pp.13360. ⟨10.1038/s41598-018-31781-z⟩. ⟨hal-02472456⟩
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