Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY
Volume 133, Issue -, Pages 169-174Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2018.07.004
Keywords
Depression; Hippocampus and prefrontal network; Neuroplasticity; Theta-gamma coupling; rTMS
Funding
- Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
- Shionogi Co., Ltd.
- Meiji Seika Pharma Co., Ltd.
- Japan Health Foundation
- Meiji Yasuda Mental Health Foundation
- Mitsui Life Social Welfare Foundation
- Takeda Science Foundation
- SENSHIN Medical Research Foundation
- Health Science Center Foundation
- Daiichi Sankyo Scholarship Donation Program
- Magventure Inc.
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
- National Institutes of Health - US (NIH)
- Weston Brain Institute, Brain Canada
- Temerty Family through the CAMH Foundation
- Campbell Research Institute
- BrainsWay Ltd.
- KAKENHI, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT), Japan
- SENSHIN Medical Research Foundation, Japan
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The underlying mechanism of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) effects on cognition has not been fully examined. Previously, we have reported the left hippocampal volume increase and theta-gamma coupling (TGC) enhancement associated with working memory improvement following rTMS in depression. This study was aimed to examine whether there is a structure-function relationship in hippocampal neuroplasticity induced by prefrontal rTMS. Thirty-one patients with major depression underwent longitudinal MRI scans and resting-state EEG recordings with the 10-20 system using averaged ear-lobes reference, following 10 sessions of high-frequency rTMS over the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. Pearson's correlation analyses were applied for the longitudinal changes among the left and right hippocampal volumes as measured by manual volumetry, theta and gamma spectral powers, and TGC as measured by resting-state EEG. The analyses demonstrated that the left hippocampus volume increases correlated with TGC increases at the left central area (r = 0.576, p = 0.001, N = 31), whereas no significant correlations were observed among changes of right hippocampal volume, right central TGC, bilateral gamma or theta powers. These finding suggests structure-function relationship in rTMS-induced neuroplastic changes mediated through the hippocampus and prefrontal network at the stimulated side. Therefore, high-frequency prefrontal rTMS may exert its cognitive effect through the hippocampal structural-functional neuroplasticity.
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