Journal
NEUROIMAGE
Volume 94, Issue -, Pages 263-274Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.02.029
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- Medical Research Council (MRC)
- Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
- University of Nottingham [G0901321, EP/F023057/1, EP/J006823/1]
- University of Nottingham Mansfield Fellowship
- Anne McLaren Fellowship
- EPSRC [EP/I022325/1]
- Birmingham Fellowship
- EPSRC [EP/F023057/1, EP/J006823/1, EP/I022325/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- MRC [G0901321] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/I022325/1, EP/F023057/1, EP/J006823/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Medical Research Council [G0901321] Funding Source: researchfish
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Unambiguous interpretation of changes in the BOLD signal is challenging because of the complex neurovascular coupling that translates changes in neuronal activity into the subsequent haemodynamic response. In particular, the neurophysiological origin of the negative BOLD response (NBR) remains incompletely understood. Here, we simultaneously recorded BOLD, EEG and cerebral blood flow (CBF) responses to 10 s blocks of unilateral median nerve stimulation (MNS) in order to interrogate the NBR. Both negative BOLD and negative CBF responses to MNS were observed in the same region of the ipsilateral primary sensorimotor cortex (S1/M1) and calculations showed that MNS induced a decrease in the cerebral metabolic rate of oxygen consumption (CMRO2) in this NBR region. The Delta CMRO2/Delta CBF coupling ratio (n) was found to be significantly larger in this ipsilateral S1/M1 region (n = 0.91 +/- 0.04, M = 10.45%) than in the contralateral S1/M1 (n = 0.65 +/- 0.03, M = 10.45%) region that exhibited a positive BOLD response (PBR) and positive CBF response, and a consequent increase in CMRO2 during MNS. The fMRI response amplitude in ipsilateral S1/M1 was negatively correlated with both the power of the 8-13 Hz EEG mu oscillation and somatosensory evoked potential amplitude. Blocks in which the largest magnitude of negative BOLD and CBF responses occurred therefore showed greatest mu power, an electrophysiological index of cortical inhibition, and largest somatosensory evoked potentials. Taken together, our results suggest that a neuronal mechanism underlies the NBR, but that the NBR may originate from a different neurovascular coupling mechanism to the PBR, suggesting that caution should be taken in assuming the NBR simply represents the neurophysiological inverse of the PBR. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc.
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