Caudal cingulate cortex involvement in pain processing: an inter-individual laser evoked potential source localisation study using realistic head models - PubMed (original) (raw)

Caudal cingulate cortex involvement in pain processing: an inter-individual laser evoked potential source localisation study using realistic head models

Deborah E Bentley et al. Pain. 2003 Apr.

Abstract

Electrophysiological studies have revealed a source of laser pain evoked potentials (LEPs) in cingulate cortex. However, few studies have used realistically shaped head models in the source analysis, which account for individual differences in anatomy and allow detailed anatomical localisation of sources. The aim of the current study was to accurately localise the cingulate source of LEPs in a group of healthy volunteers, using realistic head models, and to assess the inter-individual variability in anatomical location. LEPs, elicited by painful CO(2) laser stimulation of the right forearm, were recorded from 62 electrodes in five healthy subjects. Dipole source localisation (CURRY 4.0) was performed on the most prominent (P2) peak of each LEP data set, using head models derived from each subject's structural magnetic resonance image (MRI).For all subjects, the P2 LEP peak was best explained by a dipole whose origin was in cingulate cortex (mean residual variance was 3.9+/-2.4 %). For four out of five subjects, it was located at the border of the caudal division of left anterior cingulate cortex (area 24/32') with left posterior cingulate cortex (area 23/31). For the fifth subject the dipole was centred in right posterior cingulate cortex (area 31). This study demonstrates that the location of the cingulate source of LEPs is highly consistent across subjects, when analysed in this way, and supports the involvement of caudal cingulate regions in pain processing.

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