Focal seizures induce spatiotemporally organized spiking activity in the human cortex

Joshua M. Diamond, Julio I. Chapeton, Weizhen Xie, Samantha N. Jackson, Sara K. Inati and Kareem A. Zaghloul ()
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Joshua M. Diamond: NINDS, National Institutes of Health
Julio I. Chapeton: NINDS, National Institutes of Health
Weizhen Xie: NINDS, National Institutes of Health
Samantha N. Jackson: NINDS, National Institutes of Health
Sara K. Inati: NINDS, National Institutes of Health
Kareem A. Zaghloul: NINDS, National Institutes of Health

Nature Communications, 2024, vol. 15, issue 1, 1-15

Abstract: Abstract Epileptic seizures are debilitating because of the clinical symptoms they produce. These symptoms, in turn, may stem directly from disruptions in neural coding. Recent evidence has suggested that the specific temporal order, or sequence, of spiking across a population of cortical neurons may encode information. Here, we investigate how seizures disrupt neuronal spiking sequences in the human brain by recording multi-unit activity from the cerebral cortex in five male participants undergoing monitoring for seizures. We find that pathological discharges during seizures are associated with bursts of spiking activity across a population of cortical neurons. These bursts are organized into highly consistent and stereotyped temporal sequences. As the seizure evolves, spiking sequences diverge from the sequences observed at baseline and become more spatially organized. The direction of this spatial organization matches the direction of the ictal discharges, which spread over the cortex as traveling waves. Our data therefore suggest that seizures can entrain cortical spiking sequences by changing the spatial organization of neuronal firing, providing a possible mechanism by which seizures create symptoms.

Date: 2024
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