Absence of transcallosal inhibition in adolescents with diplegic cerebral palsy

Muscle Nerve. 1999 Feb;22(2):255-7. doi: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4598(199902)22:2<255::aid-mus14>3.0.co;2-7.

Abstract

The role of intracortical organization in the pathophysiology of cerebral palsy (CP) is not clear. We used transcranial magnetic stimulation to investigate the paradigm of transcallosal inhibition (TI) in a group of adolescent patients with diplegic CP (n = 4), hereditary spastic paraplegia (n = 2), and healthy control adolescents (n = 4). None of the patients with CP showed TI, whereas all other subjects had normal TI. These findings indicate a lack of inhibitory control of the motor cortex in CP.

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Cerebral Palsy / physiopathology*
  • Child
  • Corpus Callosum / physiopathology*
  • Electric Stimulation
  • Electromyography
  • Functional Laterality
  • Hand / physiology
  • Humans
  • Magnetics
  • Muscle, Skeletal / physiology
  • Neural Inhibition / physiology*
  • Reaction Time / physiology
  • Spastic Paraplegia, Hereditary / physiopathology