Ecole Normale Supérieure, Institut de Biologie de l'ENS, IBENS, INSERM, U1024, and CNRS, UMR 8197, F-75005 Paris, France.
J Neurosci. 2013 Apr 10;33(15):6552-6. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5521-12.2013.
The cerebellum is an essential structure for the control of movement. It sends abundant ascending projections to the cerebral cortex via the thalamus, but its contribution to cortical activity remains largely unknown. Here we studied its influence on cortical neuronal activity in freely moving rats. We demonstrate an excitatory action of the cerebellum on the motor thalamus and the motor cortex. We also show that cerebellar inactivation disrupts the gamma-band coherence of local field potential between the sensory and motor cortices during whisking. In contrast, phase locking of neuronal activities to local gamma oscillations was preserved in the sensory and motor cortices by cerebellar inactivation. These results indicate that the cerebellum contributes to coordinated sensorimotor cortical activities during motor activation and thus participates in the multiregional cortical processing of information.
小脑是运动控制的重要结构。它通过丘脑向大脑皮层发送丰富的上行投射,但小脑对皮层活动的贡献在很大程度上仍不清楚。在这里,我们研究了小脑在自由活动大鼠皮层神经元活动中的影响。我们证明了小脑对运动丘脑和运动皮层的兴奋作用。我们还表明,小脑失活破坏了在刷动过程中感觉和运动皮层之间局部场电位的γ 波段相干性。相比之下,小脑失活保留了感觉和运动皮层中神经元活动与局部γ 振荡的相位锁定。这些结果表明,小脑有助于运动激活期间感觉运动皮层的协调活动,从而参与信息的多区域皮层处理。