Neural activity in trigeminal neuralgia patients with sensory and motor stimulations: A pilot functional MRI study
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Abstract
OBJECTIVE: Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is a neuropathic pain syndrome that typically exhibits paroxysmal pain. However, the true mechanism of pain processing is unclear. We aim to evaluate the neural activity changes, before and after radiofrequency rhizotomy, in TN patients using functional MRI (fMRI) with sensory and motor stimulations. METHODS: Six patients with classical TN participated in the study. Each patient underwent two boxcar paradigms of fMRI tasks: air-sensation and jaw-clenching around 1-3 weeks before and after the surgical intervention. McGill Pain Questionnaire (MPQ) was used to evaluate the pain intensity prior to fMRI study. RESULTS: Before rhizotomy, the jaw-clenching stimulation yielded reduced brain activation in primary motor (M1) and primary (SI) and secondary somatosensory (SII) cortices. Following intervention, activation in those regions returned to near normal levels observed in healthy subjects. For air-sensation stimulation, several pain and pain modulation regions such as right thalamus, right putamen, insula, and brainstem, were activated before the intervention, but subsided after the intervention. This correlated well with the change of MPQ scores (p < 0.01). CONCLUSIONS: In our study, we observed significant pain reduction accompanied by increased motor activities after rhizotomy in patients with TN. We hypothesize that the reduced motor activities identified in fMRI may be reversed after the treatment with radiofrequency rhizotomy. More research is warranted.
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