Nardone Raffaele, Trinka Eugen
Department of Neurology, Hospital of Merano (SABES-ASDAA), 39012 Merano, Italy.
Department of Neurology, Neurocritical Care, and Neurorehabilitation, Member of EpiCARE, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Christian Doppler University Hospital, Paracelsus Medical University, 5020 Salzburg, Austria.
J Clin Med. 2025 Apr 16;14(8):2738. doi: 10.3390/jcm14082738.
Mirror movements (MMs) are related to structural alterations of the pyramidal tract or transcallosal pathways, as well as functional impairment of the interhemispheric inhibitory effects on motor planning skills, leading to the inability to perform limb movements independently. On the other hand, white matter bundles that connect distant cortical regions are thought to be the anatomical substrate of seizure propagation in epileptic subjects, and the spread of excitation through intracortical and transcallosal pathways is a well-recognized pathophysiological abnormality in epilepsies. To investigate this possible association, we searched the MEDLINE and Embase electronic databases, and only original articles were considered eligible for inclusion; we found thirteen patients from eleven articles, all of them case study reports. Therefore, epilepsy and MM co-morbidity has rarely been reported in the same subjects, even if changes in interhemispheric modulation are shared by both conditions. However, the study of this co-morbidity may help in elucidating the exact pathophysiological mechanisms of MMs and to better understand the pathological interhemispheric connections in epilepsy patients.
镜像运动(MMs)与锥体束或胼胝体通路的结构改变以及半球间对运动计划技能抑制作用的功能损害有关,导致无法独立进行肢体运动。另一方面,连接远距离皮质区域的白质束被认为是癫痫患者癫痫发作传播的解剖学基础,并且兴奋通过皮质内和胼胝体通路的传播是癫痫中公认的病理生理异常。为了研究这种可能的关联,我们检索了MEDLINE和Embase电子数据库,只有原创文章被认为符合纳入标准;我们从11篇文章中找到了13名患者,所有这些都是病例研究报告。因此,即使两种情况都存在半球间调制的变化,但癫痫和MM共病在同一受试者中很少被报道。然而,对这种共病的研究可能有助于阐明MMs的确切病理生理机制,并更好地理解癫痫患者的半球间病理连接。