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Functional connectivity between medial pulvinar and cortical networks as a predictor of arousal to noxious stimuli during sleep

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The interruption of sleep by a nociceptive stimulus is favoured by an increase in the pre-stimulus functional connectivity between sensory and higher level cortical areas. In addition, stimuli inducing arousal also trigger a widespread electroencephalographic (EEG) response reflecting the coordinated activation of a large cortical network. Because functional connectivity between distant cortical areas is thought to be underpinned by trans-thalamic connections involving associative thalamic nuclei, we investigated the possible involvement of one principal associative thalamic nucleus, the medial pulvinar (PuM), in the sleeper's responsiveness to nociceptive stimuli. Intra-cortical and intra-thalamic signals were analysed in 440 intracranial electroencephalographic (iEEG) segments during nocturnal sleep in eight epileptic patients receiving laser nociceptive stimuli. The spectral coherence between the PuM and 10 cortical regions grouped in networks was computed during 5 s before and 1 s after the nociceptive stimulus and contrasted according to the presence or absence of an arousal EEG response. Pre- and post-stimulus phase coherence between the PuM and all cortical networks was significantly increased in instances of arousal, both during N2 and paradoxical (rapid eye movement [REM]) sleep. Thalamo-cortical enhancement in coherence involved both sensory and higher level cortical networks and predominated in the pre-stimulus period. The association between pre-stimulus widespread increase in thalamo-cortical coherence and subsequent arousal suggests that the probability of sleep interruption by a noxious stimulus increases when it occurs during phases of enhanced trans-thalamic transfer of information between cortical areas.
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hal-03838580 , version 1 (27-03-2023)

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Hélène Bastuji, Andéol Cadic-Melchior, Lucien Ruelle-Le Glaunec, Michel Magnin, Luis Garcia-Larrea. Functional connectivity between medial pulvinar and cortical networks as a predictor of arousal to noxious stimuli during sleep. European Journal of Neuroscience, In press, ⟨10.1111/ejn.15958⟩. ⟨hal-03838580⟩
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