RESEARCH ARTICLE
Cutaneous and Mixed Nerve Silent Period Recordings in Symptomatic Paroxysmal Kinesigenic Dyskinesia
Julien Cogez1, *, Olivier Etard2, 3, Nathalie Derache1, 4, Gilles Defer1
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2016Volume: 10
First Page: 9
Last Page: 14
Publisher ID: TONEUJ-10-9
DOI: 10.2174/1874205X01610010009
Article History:
Received Date: 29/9/2014Revision Received Date: 1/12/2014
Acceptance Date: 11/12/2014
Electronic publication date: 26/05/2016
Collection year: 2016
open-access license: This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International Public License (CC BY-NC 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode), which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited.
Abstract
Objective:
The underlying neurophysiologic mechanism responsible for secondary paroxysmal kinesigenic dyskinesia (PKD) is still unclear. Here, we study the pathogenesis of PKD in two patients with a demyelinating lesion in the spinal cord.
Methods:
Electromyogram recordings from affected arms of two patients with spinal cord lesions presenting PKD were compared with our laboratory standards. The cutaneous silent period (CuSP), mixed nerve silent period (MnSP) and coincidence period (CiP), defined as the common period between the CuSP and MnSP, were recorded.
Results:
A large decrease in the MnSP and disappearance of the CiP were observed in our patients, which was secondary to simultaneous extinction of the third portion of the MnSP, while the CuSP was normal. The MnSP and CiP were normal after recovery.
Conclusions:
Our results demonstrate that the third portion of the MnSP and the CuSP do not correspond to the same physiologic process. These findings suggest that PKD patients have abnormal spinal interneuron integration.
