Variabilidade da atividades cerebral em resposta a estímulos vestibular e ocolomotor avaliada por fMRI / Variability of cerebral activity in response to vestibular and oculomotor stimuli evaluated by fMRI

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2005

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Assessing inter-variability of functional activations is of practical importance in the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in clinical context. The main objective of this study is to analyze the variability of cerebral activation of the vestibular and oculomotor systems through an optokinetic horizontal, a pursuit and saccadic eye movement stimulations by means of fMRI. For this, images of magnetic resonance were acquired of twenty and three asymptomatic volunteers (thirteen for the optokinetic study and ten for the pursuit and saccade stimulations) in scanner of 1.5 T Siemens (Magneton Vision) with EPI-BOLD fMRI sequences. The statistical maps were analyzed in Brain Voyager software, using the method General Linear Model. We find significant activation in primary visual cortex, in middle and inferior occipital gyrus, in middle, superior and inferior temporal gyrus, in postcentral and precentral gyrus, in middle, inferior and superior frontal gyrus, in supramarginal gyrus, in superior and inferior parietal lobule, in insula and in anterior and posterior cingulate gyrus. Groups of activity had been also found in subcorticals structures (putamen, globus pallidus, corpus callosum and thalamus), beyond the cerebellum. The analysis of the activation frequency displays a high variability between volunteers. However, the most frequently activation regions were localized in areas frontals and in regions comprehending the middle and medial superior temporal gyrus. We use two methods for the analysis of the laterality index, the first admits a fixed statistical value and the second takes in consideration the dependence of the statistical threshold within the activated number of pixels, the second method revealed more reliability. The indices had shown a right hemisphere dominance for the optokinetic study but, for the pursuit and saccade stimulations, we do not verify this dominance. Our study allowed the characterization of the most frequently involved foci in tasks of optokinetic and pursuit and saccade eye movement stimulations. The combination of these tasks constitutes a suitable tool for determine the lateralization of these functions and for mapping major areas involved in the oculomotor and vestibular systems.

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variabilidade da atividade cerebral sistema oculomotor oculomotor system sistema vestibular fmri variability of cerebral activity fmri vestibular system

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