• Turk J Med Sci · Jan 2024

    Changes in blink reflex after simultaneous supraorbital and mental nerve stimulations in healthy subjects.

    • Ayşegül Gündüz, Tuba Cerrahoğlu Şirin, Pınar Bekdik Şirinocak, Tuba Akinci, Burcu Nuran Arkali, Fatma Candan, and Meral E Kiziltan.
    • Department of Neurology, Cerrahpaşa Medical Faculty, İstanbul University-Cerrahpaşa, İstanbul, Turkiye.
    • Turk J Med Sci. 2024 Jan 1; 54 (3): 563571563-571.

    Background/AimIn this study, we investigated the blink reflex (BR) after simultaneous and asynchronous stimulation of two trigeminal nerve branches. The objective was to characterize the physiology of trigeminal and facial circuits.Materials And MethodsWe performed three sets of experiments: recording BR response i. after supraorbital nerve stimulation (SON), after mental nerve stimulation (MN), and after simultaneous SON and MN stimulation (SON+MN) in 18 healthy individuals; ii. after MN (at an intensity eliciting BR response) preceding SON at various interstimulus intervals (ISIs) in seven healthy subjects; iii after MN (at sensory threshold) preceding SON at various ISIs. We compared the magnitudes of early and late responses.ResultsThe R1 amplitude after simultaneous SON+MN stimulation was greater than responses after single stimulation of the same branches. After simultaneous stimulations, the R2 and R2c areas under the curve (AUC) were smaller than the arithmetic sums of R2 and R2c AUC obtained after single stimulations. The second experiment provided a recovery excitability curve. In the third step, we obtained facilitation of R1 and inhibition of late responses.ConclusionThe SON+MN stimulation caused an increased R1 circuit excitability compared to the arithmetic sum of the single stimulations; however, magnitudes of late responses did not potentiate. Thus, we have provided evidence for R1 circuit enhancement by simultaneous stimulation in humans, whereas modulation of late responses exhibited a recovery curve similar to that shown for paired SON stimulation.© TÜBİTAK.

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