TMS in Special Populations
Alexander Rotenberg, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Neuromodulation Program
- Dept. Neurology, Div. Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology
Children’s Hospital, Boston
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Y P O C T O N O TMS in Special Populations D E S A E Alexander Rotenberg, M.D., Ph.D. L Director, Neuromodulation Program P Dept. Neurology, Div. Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology Childrens Hospital, Boston Y Conflict of
Alexander Rotenberg, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Neuromodulation Program
Children’s Hospital, Boston
Current:
Neuro’motion Inc. (co-founder, consultant) NeuroRex Inc. (consultant, medical advisory board) Brainsway Inc. (research support) Soterix Medical Inc. (research support) Neuroelectrics Inc. (research support) Sage Therapeutics Inc. (research support)
Wuhan Yirude Medical Equipment New Technology Co., Ltd. (research support)
Assimon Family Fund (research support) NIH NIMH, NIH NINDS, DoD, CIMIT, ERF, TRP, MassLife, Assimon Family, Autism Speaks (research grants)
Past:
Research support from: Neuropace Inc., Neuronetics Inc., Nexstim Inc., Fisher Family Fund, Al Rashedi Family Fund
Boston Children’s Hospital Neuromodulation Program
Neuronetics Trial N=164; 23 centers; triple blind L DLPF 10 Hz rTMS 120% MT 4 sec trains 26 sec ITI 3000 pulses/day 2-3 weeks
Lisanby et al., 2008
N=6
N=64 (32: 90% RMT; 32: 20% RMT) 0.5 Hz rTMS over seizure focus
14yF 15yF
Fregni et al., 2005
...but, conventional TMS does not reach the temporal lobe
Electrical current distribution (phantom model) Roth and Zangen
Deep TMS H-Coil System
Boston Children’s Hospital Neuromodulation Program
Epilepsy Therapy Project (PI: Rotenberg) Seizure frequency around rTMS block Seizures per day * rTMS
20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 sham verum
Seizure frequency (% of baseline)
*
2 4 6
1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28
First treatment block
seizure cluster 1 2 3 4 5 6
1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28
Second treatment block
1 2 3 4 5 6
1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28
Third treatment block
A B C Figure 1
10 sessions rTMS 15 sessions rTMS 30 sessions rTMS
Gersner et al., 2016
Frye, Rotenberg, et al. Child Neurol 2007
Dashed: contra Solid: ipsi
Left hand Right hand
Healthy 12yF
Hand Motor Task - fMRI R hand L hand
N=4 boys with hemispheric polymicrogyria fMRI: ipsilesional BOLD signal in 3 / 4 nTMS: 0 / 4 crossed lesional corticospinal connections 4 / 4 with preserved grasp in paretic hand after hemispherectomy
Right FDI MEP
APB R APB L
Tib L Tib R
– Risk for excitotoxicity
– Risk for interference with learning and memory
– Risk of use‐dependent structural change
DeLorenzo et al., 1992
Smith et al., 2011
P0 P5 P10 P15 P20 P25 P30 Adult
Kainate
% Adult Function
Human Rodent
preterm term 1-2y >10y Adult
EXCITATION INHIBITION excitatory glutamate
Silverstein and Jensen, Ann Neurol, 2007 Rakhade and Jensen, Nature Rev., 2010
GABA (excitatory) GABA (inhibitory) AMPA NMDA
Ben-Ari 2002
NKCC1:KCC2
0.0 1.0 2.0 3.0 4.0 5.0
****
Fold change
*** **
100 200 300 400
* ***
NKCC1
% of Control
**** **** ****
KCC2
% of Control
20 40 60 80 100 120
NKCC1 and KCC2 expression in autism, as compared epilepsy and controls
Autism Frontal Lobe (A-FL) Autism Temporal Lobe (A-TL) Epilepsy Temporal Lobe (E-TL)
Salah and Talos, in preparation
1
Conditioning TMS 2 Test TMS Control SICI; 2 ms ISI ICF; 12 ms ISI
0.5 mV 25 ms
LICI; 200 ms ISI
0.5 mV 50 ms
Rotenberg and Pascual-Leone, 2010
1
Conditioning TMS 2 Test TMS
50 ms
Paired-pulse MEP inhibition
Rotenberg and Pascual-Leone, 2010
GABA-mediated inhibition
Stagg et al., J Neurophysiol, 2009
Oberman et al., Eur. J. Neuroscience, 2012
0.60 0.70 0.80 0.90 1.00 1.10 1.20 1.30 1.40 1.50 1.60 5 10 20 30 40 50 60 75 90 105 120
cTBS iTBS
Time after TBS [ min] MEP amplitude
[ proportion of baseline]
Baseline
Oberman et al. 2009 & in press
Maturation of motor plasticity
Oberman et al., 2014
Chloride homeostasis may be dysmature in the ASD brain, and NKCC1 block may rescue the ASD phenotype
CARS: childhood autism rating scale
self-limited adverse events:
finger twitching (1)
11.6%. No emotional changes, as rated with the visual analog mood scale, were identified (p > 0.05).
Wu et al., Annual Meeting Child Neurology Society, 2011
…..Though still limited, pediatric data are emerging
J Child Neurol, 2001
Left deltoid Left tibialis anterior Kaye et al., Epilepsy & Behav. Case Repor
corticospinal connectivity within the tuber tissue
Kaye et al., Epilepsy & Behav. Case Reports 2016
induced between the leads
Rotenberg et al., 2007 Rotenberg and Pascual-Leone 2009
Rotenberg et al., Clin Neirophysiol 2007
Titanium Skull Plates and Gold EEG Electrode Temperature vs. Time During 1Hz rTMS
Time (s)
200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400 1600 1800
Temperature (oC)
20 30 40 50 60 70
Hsieh et al., Clin Neurophys 2011