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Imaging brain Glx dynamics in response to pressure pain stimulation: a 1H-fMRS study
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posted on 2023-06-10, 01:05 authored by Luke A Jelen, David J Lythgoe, Jade B Jackson, Matthew A Howard, James StoneJames Stone, Alice EgertonGlutamate signalling is increasingly implicated across a range of psychiatric, neurological and pain disorders. Reliable methodologies are needed to probe the glutamate system and understand glutamate dynamics in vivo. Functional magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H-fMRS) is a technique that allows measurement of glutamatergic metabolites over time in response to task conditions including painful stimuli. In this study, 18 healthy volunteers underwent 1H-fMRS during a pressure-pain paradigm (8 blocks of REST and 8 blocks of PAIN) across two separate sessions. During each session, estimates of glutamate + glutamine (Glx), scaled to total creatine (tCr = creatine + phosphocreatine) were determined for averaged REST and PAIN conditions within two separate regions of interest: the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and dorsal ACC (dACC). A two-way repeated measures analysis of variance determined a significant main effect of CONDITION (p = 0.025), with higher Glx/tCr during PAIN compared to REST across combined sessions, in the dACC ROI only. However, increases in dACC Glx/tCr during PAIN compared to REST showed limited reliability and reproducibility across sessions. Future test-retest 1H-fMRS studies should examine modified or alternative paradigms to determine more reliable methodologies to challenge the glutamate system that may then be applied in patient groups and experimental medicine studies.
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Publication status
- Published
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- Published version
Journal
Frontiers in PsychiatryISSN
1664-0640Publisher
Frontiers MediaExternal DOI
Volume
12Page range
1-12Article number
a681419Event location
SwitzerlandDepartment affiliated with
- BSMS Neuroscience Publications
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