Evaluation of local field potentials of MER data with STN DBS electrodes

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Author Details : Venkateshwarla Rama Raju*

Volume : 6, Issue : 4, Year : 2020

Article Page : 296-300

https://doi.org/10.18231/j.ijn.2020.056

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Abstract

The field potentials, i.e., the electrical-potentials of the deep brain stimulations (DBS) and microelectrode signal recordings of STN-neurons flanking DBS leads canister bright to proffer functional and empirical retort or titrating therapeutic-surgical-DBSDBS. Nonetheless, predictable square (conservative) DBS leadelectrodes amid four cylindrical macro/electrodes (for macrostimulations) likely under-sample the spatial circulation of sinks and sources in a given area of the brain. This study gives the exploration of the
power-spectral-density (PSD) and spatial-feature dimensions of LFP-activity in primate subthalamicnuclei (STN/or s-nuclei) and globus pallidus internus (GPi) by means of unendingly 32embedded-channel directional DBS-array-electrodes. The waveforms of s-nuclei and GPi were acquired as of directional-DBS-micro electrode-arrays in the latent or quiescent state and in a reach-and-retrieval task in twoprimates in adolescent, naïve and immature (raw) animal Parkinson conditions. The potentials of signal
acquisitions recordings were evaluated amongst bipolar-pairs of micro electrodes using personage and agglomerative (bunched) electrode configurations, with the latter mimicking the cylindrical macro electrode (for macro stimulations)  arrangements/specifications employed in the present - current clinical settings of field-potentials signal acquisition. Signal recordings from these DBS-electrodes shown that, b -oscillatory frequency fluctuations have spatial-finger-prints in s-nuclei and GPi, and that these fluctuations were muted when clustering the electrode contacts together to create cylindrical macro electrodes alike in parallel and in relative dimension to those employed clinically and diagnostically. Furthermore, these atlases depend
on parkinsonian condition and whether the subject was quiescent or performing a motor-task. With this research work the development of future adaptive closed-loop (ACL) DBS-therapies to rely on fieldpotentials (LFP)feedback response or reaction will gain from embedding DBS micro, macro electrodes and leads by the volume of the electrodes and spacing’s that are more reliable with the dimensions of fluctuatory sinks and sources inside of the complex-human-brain.

Keywords: Deep brain stimulation, Field potentials local field potentials, Micro electrodes, Micro electrode recording, Parkinson’s disease internal global pallidus, Subthalamic nucleus.

How to cite : Raju V R, Evaluation of local field potentials of MER data with STN DBS electrodes. IP Indian J Neurosci 2020;6(4):296-300

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