Institut Berlin

1 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE

Movement-Related Changes in Cortico-Pallidal Coupling Revealed by Simultaneous Intracranial and Magnetoencephalography Recordings in Dystonia Patients

Roxanne Lofredi¹, Bernadette C.M. van Wijk¹, Wolf-Julian Neumann¹, Gerd-Helge Schneider², Tilmann H. Sander³, Andrea A. Kühn¹

¹Movement Disorders and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, ²Department of Neurosurgery, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, ³Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Institut Berlin

Here, we describe how to combine simultaneous subcortical local field potential recordings and whole-head magnetoencephalography in patients with dystonia during the performance of a Stop-signal task. This method allows for the investigation of task-specific changes in network connectivity through changes in coherence.