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@ARTICLE{Silchenko:133852,
author = {Silchenko, Alexander and Adamchic, Ilya and Hauptmann,
Christian and Tass, Peter A.},
title = {{I}mpact of acoustic coordinated reset neuromodulation on
effective connectivity in a neural network of phantom sound},
journal = {NeuroImage},
volume = {77},
address = {Orlando, Fla.},
publisher = {Academic Press},
reportid = {FZJ-2013-02243},
pages = {133 - 147},
year = {2013},
abstract = {Chronic subjective tinnitus is an auditory phantom
phenomenon characterized by abnormal neuronal synchrony in
the central auditory system. As recently shown in a proof of
concept clinical trial, acoustic coordinated reset (CR)
neuromodulation causes a significant relief of tinnitus
symptoms combined with a significant decrease of
pathological oscillatory activity in a network comprising
auditory and non-auditory brain areas. The objective of the
present study was to analyze whether CR therapy caused an
alteration of the effective connectivity in a tinnitus
related network of localized EEG brain sources. To determine
which connections matter, in a first step, we considered a
larger network of brain sources previously associated with
tinnitus. To that network we applied a data-driven approach,
combining empirical mode decomposition and partial directed
coherence analysis, in patients with bilateral tinnitus
before and after 12weeks of CR therapy as well as in healthy
controls. To increase the signal-to-noise ratio, we focused
on the good responders, classified by a
reliable-change-index (RCI). Prior to CR therapy and
compared to the healthy controls, the good responders showed
a significantly increased connectivity between the left
primary cortex auditory cortex and the posterior cingulate
cortex in the gamma and delta bands together with a
significantly decreased effective connectivity between the
right primary auditory cortex and the dorsolateral
prefrontal cortex in the alpha band. Intriguingly, after
12weeks of CR therapy most of the pathological interactions
were gone, so that the connectivity patterns of good
responders and healthy controls became statistically
indistinguishable. In addition, we used dynamic causal
modeling (DCM) to examine the types of interactions which
were altered by CR therapy. Our DCM results show that CR
therapy specifically counteracted the imbalance of
excitation and inhibition. CR significantly weakened the
excitatory connection between posterior cingulate cortex and
primary auditory cortex and significantly strengthened
inhibitory connections between auditory cortices and the
dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. The overall impact of CR
therapy on the entire tinnitus-related network showed up as
a qualitative transformation of its spectral response, in
terms of a drastic change of the shape of its averaged
transfer function. Based on our findings we hypothesize that
CR therapy restores a silence based cognitive auditory
comparator function of the posterior cingulate cortex.},
cin = {INM-7},
ddc = {610},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)INM-7-20090406},
pnm = {333 - Pathophysiological Mechanisms of Neurological and
Psychiatric Diseases (POF2-333)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF2-333},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000320073900013},
pubmed = {pmid:23528923},
doi = {10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.03.013},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/133852},
}