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García, Míriam R., Verwoerd, Mark, Pearlmutter, Barak A., Wellstead, Peter and Middleton, Richard H. (2011) Deep brain stimulation may reduce tremor by preferential blockade of slower axons via antidromic activation. In: 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference (CDC-ECC), 2011. IEEE, pp. 6481-6486. ISBN 9781612848006
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Abstract
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has been used to ameliorate essential and Parkinsonian tremor, however the detailed mechanism by which tremor reduction is achieved remains unclear. We hypothesize that DBS works by reducing time delays in the feedback paths of the motor control loops. In particular, we suggest that antidromic activation of axonal pathways induced by stimulation will preferentially block axons with longer propagation times, reducing time delays in neuronal motor circuits in a stabilising manner. We demonstrate the plausibility of this hypothesis using two simple computational models which account for a variety of experimental results, and allow us to makes a number of testable predictions.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Keywords: | Satellite broadcasting; Delay; Nerve fibers; Biological system modeling; Oscillators; Joining processes; Mathematical model; |
| Academic Unit: | Faculty of Science and Engineering > Computer Science |
| Item ID: | 8117 |
| Identification Number: | 10.1109/CDC.2011.6160710 |
| Depositing User: | Barak Pearlmutter |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Apr 2017 10:15 |
| Publisher: | IEEE |
| Refereed: | Yes |
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| URI: | https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/8117 |
| Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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