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Article Dans Une Revue European Journal of Neuroscience Année : 2018

Insular-limbic dissociation to intra-epidermal electrical Aδ activation: A comparative study with thermo-nociceptive laser stimulation

Koichi Hagiwara
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Caroline Perchet
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Maud Frot
Hélène Bastuji
Luis Garcia-Larrea
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Intra-epidermal electrical stimulation (IEES) has been shown to activate selectively Aδ fibers subserving spinothalamic-mediated sensations. Owing to electrically induced highly synchronous afferent volleys, IEES induces Aδ-mediated evoked potentials at nonpainful intensities, contrasting with thermo-nociceptive laser pulses which entail painful pricking sensations. Here, we recorded intracortical responses from sensory and limbic-cognitive regions of human subjects in response to IEE and laser stimuli, in order to test the hypothesis that IEES could dissociate the sensory from nonsensory networks of nociceptive processing. Intracortical evoked potentials were obtained in 11 epileptic patients with stereotactically implanted electrodes in sensory regions receiving spinothalamic afferents (posterior insula), limbic regions receiving spino-parabrachial input (amygdalar nucleus), and high-order affective-cognitive regions (anteromedial frontal cortex, including perigenual anterior cingulate and rostromedial prefrontal areas). Responses in the sensory posterior insula were of similar amplitude and latency to IEE and laser stimuli (after accounting for heat-transduction time of laser), and consistent in both cases with spinothalamic activation. However, responses to IEES in the amygdala and the anteromedial frontal regions were inconsistent and significantly smaller compared to those evoked to the laser stimulation. Thus, IEES can effectively activate the spinothalamic-sensory system with little recruitment of affective-motivational networks, including those triggered by spino-parabrachio-amygdalar projections. The fact that identical sensory responses were associated to either painful or nonpainful percepts underscores that subjective pain perception is not solely dependent on the sensory recruitment, but rather on the combined activation of sensory, limbic and cognitive areas with precise spatiotemporal relations.
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hal-02472459 , version 1 (10-02-2020)

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Koichi Hagiwara, Caroline Perchet, Maud Frot, Hélène Bastuji, Luis Garcia-Larrea. Insular-limbic dissociation to intra-epidermal electrical Aδ activation: A comparative study with thermo-nociceptive laser stimulation. European Journal of Neuroscience, 2018, 48 (10), pp.3186-3198. ⟨10.1111/ejn.14146⟩. ⟨hal-02472459⟩
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