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Re-emergent Tremor in Parkinson's Disease: The Role of the Motor Cortex.


ABSTRACT:

Background

Parkinson's disease patients may show a tremor that appears after a variable delay while the arms are kept outstretched (re-emergent tremor). The objectives of this study were to investigate re-emergent tremor pathophysiology by studying the role of the primary motor cortex in this tremor and making a comparison with rest tremor.

Methods

We enrolled 10 Parkinson's disease patients with both re-emergent and rest tremor. Tremor was assessed by spectral analysis, corticomuscular coherence and tremor-resetting produced by transcranial magnetic stimulation over the primary motor cortex. We also recorded transcranial magnetic stimulation-evoked potentials generated by motor cortex stimulation during rest tremor, tremor suppression during wrist extension, and re-emergent tremor. Spectral analysis, corticomuscular coherence, and tremor resetting were compared between re-emergent tremor and rest tremor.

Results

Re-emergent tremor showed significant corticomuscular coherence, causal relation between motor cortex activity and tremor muscle and tremor resetting. The P60 component of transcranial magnetic stimulation-evoked potentials reduced in amplitude during tremor suppression, recovered before re-emergent tremor, was facilitated at re-emergent tremor onset, and returned to values similar to those of rest tremor during re-emergent tremor. Compared with rest tremor, re-emergent tremor showed similar corticomuscular coherence and tremor resetting, but slightly higher frequency.

Conclusions

Re-emergent tremor is causally related with the activity of the primary motor cortex, which is likely a convergence node in the network that generates re-emergent tremor. Re-emergent tremor and rest tremor share common pathophysiological mechanisms in which the motor cortex plays a crucial role. © 2020 International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society.

SUBMITTER: Leodori G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8448579 | biostudies-literature |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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