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Right inferior frontal gyrus implements motor inhibitory control via beta-band oscillations in humans

  1. Michael Schaum  Is a corresponding author
  2. Edoardo Pinzuti
  3. Alexandra Sebastian
  4. Klaus Lieb
  5. Pascal Fries
  6. Arian Mobascher
  7. Patrick Jung
  8. Michael Wibral
  9. Oliver Tüscher
  1. Leibniz Institute for Resilience Research, Germany
  2. University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Germany
  3. Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, Germany
  4. Georg-August University, Germany
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.61679
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  1. Michael Schaum
  2. Edoardo Pinzuti
  3. Alexandra Sebastian
  4. Klaus Lieb
  5. Pascal Fries
  6. Arian Mobascher
  7. Patrick Jung
  8. Michael Wibral
  9. Oliver Tüscher
(2021)
Right inferior frontal gyrus implements motor inhibitory control via beta-band oscillations in humans
eLife 10:e61679.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.61679
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Abstract

Motor inhibitory control implemented as response inhibition is an essential cognitive function required to dynamically adapt to rapidly changing environments. Despite of over a decade of research on the neural mechanisms of response inhibition, it remains unclear, how exactly response inhibition is initiated and implemented. Using a multimodal MEG/fMRI approach in 59 subjects our results reliably reveal that response inhibition is initiated by the right inferior frontal gyrus (rIFG) as a form of attention-independent top-down control that involves the modulation of beta-band activity. Furthermore, stopping performance was predicted by beta-band power and beta-band connectivity was directed from rIFG to pre-supplementary motor area (pre-SMA), indicating rIFG's dominance over pre-SMA. Thus, these results strongly support the hypothesis that rIFG initiates stopping, implemented by beta-band oscillations with potential to open up new ways of spatially localized oscillation-based interventions.

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All data generated or analysed during this study are included in the manuscript and supporting files. All source data files are available on Dryad Digital repository (https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.x3ffbg7gp). All custom Matlab codes used in these analyses are available at https://github.com/meglab/acSST).

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  1. Michael Schaum

    Systemic Mechanisms of Resilience, Leibniz Institute for Resilience Research, Mainz, Germany
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  2. Edoardo Pinzuti

    System mechanisms of resilience, Leibniz Institute for Resilience Research, Mainz, Germany
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  3. Alexandra Sebastian

    Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
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  4. Klaus Lieb

    Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
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  5. Pascal Fries

    Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, Frankfurt, Germany
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  6. Arian Mobascher

    Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
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  7. Patrick Jung

    Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
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  8. Michael Wibral

    Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany
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  9. Oliver Tüscher

    Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (SFB 1193)

  • Michael Schaum

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (SFB 1193)

  • Edoardo Pinzuti

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (SFB 1193)

  • Alexandra Sebastian

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

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Human subjects: All individual participants included in the study provided written informed consent before participation and consent to publish any research findings based on their provided data in anonymized form. The study was approved by the local ethics committees (Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, and Medical Board of Rhineland-Palatinate, Mainz, Germany¸ IRB Protocol no. 837.128.11), and participants were financially compensated for their time.

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© 2021, Schaum et al.

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  1. Michael Schaum
  2. Edoardo Pinzuti
  3. Alexandra Sebastian
  4. Klaus Lieb
  5. Pascal Fries
  6. Arian Mobascher
  7. Patrick Jung
  8. Michael Wibral
  9. Oliver Tüscher
(2021)
Right inferior frontal gyrus implements motor inhibitory control via beta-band oscillations in humans
eLife 10:e61679.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.61679

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