Neural overlap between resting state and self-relevant activity in human subcallosal cingulate cortex - Single unit recording in an intracranial study

Nir Lipsman; Takashi Nakao; Noriaki Kanayama; Joachim Kurt Krauss; Adam K. Anderson; Peter Giacobbe; Clement Hamani; William Duncan Hutchison; Jonathan O. Dostrovsky; Thilo Womelsdorf; Andrés M. Lozano; Georg Franz Josef Northoff

doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2014.09.008

Neural overlap between resting state and self-relevant activity in human subcallosal cingulate cortex - Single unit recording in an intracranial study

Nir Lipsman, Takashi Nakao, Noriaki Kanayama, Joachim Kurt Krauss, Adam K. Anderson, Peter Giacobbe, Clement Hamani, William Duncan Hutchison, Jonathan O. Dostrovsky, Thilo Womelsdorf, Andrés M. Lozano, Georg Franz Josef Northoff

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High activity of the default mode network (DMN) has been proposed to be central in processing self-relevant events. Thus far, this hypothesis of DMN function has not been tested directly using neurophysiological techniques. To test for the link between frontal midline DMN activity and self-relevant processing we measured neuronal activity (single-neurons' firing rates) in human subcallosal cingulate cortex (SCC) in the course of Deep Brain Stimulation surgery. We find that firing rates in SCC did not change during the presentation of specifically self-relevant stimuli when compared to the preceding pre-stimulus resting state level. In contrast, we observed significant changes in firing rates during other names in SCC. Such rest-self overlap seems to be specific for SCC since increase in firing rates in response to self-relevant stimuli were observed in another region, the subthalamic nucleus, in a group of Parkinson patients receiving deep brain stimulation surgery. These results suggest specific relationship between resting state and self-related activity, rest-self overlap, in specifically SCC as core region of the default-mode network. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	139-144
Number of pages	6
Journal	Cerebral Cortex
Volume	60
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2014.09.008
Publication status	Published - 2014

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Deep brain stimulation
Default-mode network
Resting state
Self-relevance
Single-unit recording
Subcallosal cingulate cortex
action potential
Article
brain depth recording
brain depth stimulation
cell activity
cingulate gyrus
clinical article
comparative study
default mode network
human
nerve stimulation
subcallosal cingulate cortex
subthalamic nucleus
Depressive Disorder, Major
electroencephalography
nerve cell
Parkinson disease
pathophysiology
physiology
rest
Deep Brain Stimulation
Electroencephalography
Gyrus Cinguli
Humans
Neurons
Parkinson Disease
Rest

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Lipsman, N., Nakao, T., Kanayama, N., Krauss, J. K., Anderson, A. K., Giacobbe, P., Hamani, C., Hutchison, W. D., Dostrovsky, J. O., Womelsdorf, T., Lozano, A. M., & Northoff, G. F. J. (2014). Neural overlap between resting state and self-relevant activity in human subcallosal cingulate cortex - Single unit recording in an intracranial study. Cerebral Cortex, 60, 139-144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2014.09.008

Neural overlap between resting state and self-relevant activity in human subcallosal cingulate cortex - Single unit recording in an intracranial study. / Lipsman, Nir; Nakao, Takashi; Kanayama, Noriaki; Krauss, Joachim Kurt; Anderson, Adam K.; Giacobbe, Peter; Hamani, Clement; Hutchison, William Duncan; Dostrovsky, Jonathan O.; Womelsdorf, Thilo; Lozano, Andrés M.; Northoff, Georg Franz Josef.

In: Cerebral Cortex, Vol. 60, 2014, p. 139-144.

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Lipsman, N, Nakao, T, Kanayama, N, Krauss, JK, Anderson, AK, Giacobbe, P, Hamani, C, Hutchison, WD, Dostrovsky, JO, Womelsdorf, T, Lozano, AM & Northoff, GFJ 2014, 'Neural overlap between resting state and self-relevant activity in human subcallosal cingulate cortex - Single unit recording in an intracranial study', Cerebral Cortex, vol. 60, pp. 139-144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2014.09.008

Lipsman, Nir ; Nakao, Takashi ; Kanayama, Noriaki ; Krauss, Joachim Kurt ; Anderson, Adam K. ; Giacobbe, Peter ; Hamani, Clement ; Hutchison, William Duncan ; Dostrovsky, Jonathan O. ; Womelsdorf, Thilo ; Lozano, Andrés M. ; Northoff, Georg Franz Josef. / Neural overlap between resting state and self-relevant activity in human subcallosal cingulate cortex - Single unit recording in an intracranial study. In: Cerebral Cortex. 2014 ; Vol. 60. pp. 139-144.

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Volume I: Coding, , Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York; Northoff, G., (2014) Unlocking the brain. Volume II: Consciousness, , Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York; Northoff, G., Bermpohl, F., Cortical midline structures and the self (2004) Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 8 (3), pp. 102-107; Northoff, G., Heinzel, A., de Greck, M., Bermpohl, F., Dobrowolny, H., Panksepp, J., Self-referential processing in our brain - a meta-analysis of imaging studies on the self (2006) NeuroImage, 31 (1), pp. 440-457; Northoff, G., Qin, P., Nakao, T., Rest-stimulus interaction in the brain: a review (2010) Trends in Neurosciences, 33 (6), pp. 277-284; Northoff, G., Schneider, F., Rotte, M., Matthiae, C., Tempelmann, C., Wiebking, C., Differential parametric modulation of self-relatedness and emotions in different brain regions (2009) Human Brain Mapping, 30 (2), pp. 369-382; Northoff, G., Wiebking, C., Feinberg, T., Panksepp, J., The 'resting-state hypothesis' of major depressive disorder - a translational subcortical-cortical framework for a system disorder (2011) Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 35 (9), pp. 1929-1945; Qin, P., Northoff, G., How is our self related to midline regions and the default-mode network? 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