Remapping the Somatosensory Cortex after Stroke: Insight from Imaging the Synapse to Network
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Abstract
Together, thousands of neurons with similar function make up topographically oriented sensory cortex maps that represent contralateral body parts. Although this is an accepted model for the adult cortex, whether these same rules hold after stroke-induced damage is unclear. After stroke, sensory representations damaged by stroke remap onto nearby surviving neurons. Here, we review the process of sensory remapping after stroke at multiple levels ranging from the initial damage to synapses, to their rewiring and function in intact sensory circuits. We introduce a new approach using in vivo 2-photon calcium imaging to determine how the response properties of individual somatosensory cortex neurons are altered during remapping. One month after forelimb-area stroke, normally highly limb-selective neurons in surviving peri-infarct areas exhibit remarkable flexibility and begin to process sensory stimuli from multiple limbs as remapping proceeds. Two months after stroke, neurons within remapped regions develop a stronger response preference. Thus, remapping is initiated by surviving neurons adopting new roles in addition to their usual function. Later in recovery, these remapped forelimb-responsive neurons become more selective, but their new topographical representation may encroach on map territories of neurons that process sensory stimuli from other body parts. Neurons responding to multiple limbs may reflect a transitory phase in the progression from their involvement in one sensorimotor function to a new function that replaces processing lost due to stroke.
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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