Cerebral Cortex Advance Access originally published online on September 21, 2005
Cerebral Cortex 2006 16(7):960-968; doi:10.1093/cercor/bhj038
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Somatosensory and Pain Responses to Stimulation of the Second Somatosensory Area (SII) in Humans. A Comparison with SI and Insular Responses
Department of Functional Neurology and Epileptology, Federative Institute of Neurosciences, Hôpital Neurologique, Lyon, France
Address correspondence to F. Mauguière, Department of Functional Neurology and Epileptology, Federative Institute of Neurosciences, Hôpital Neurologique, Lyon, France. Email: mauguier{at}univ-lyon1.fr.
Somatosensory and pain responses to direct intracerebral stimulations of the SII area were obtained in 14 patients referred for epilepsy surgery. Stimulations were delivered using transopercular electrodes exploring the parietal opercular cortex (SII area), the suprasylvian parietal cortex (SI area) and the insular cortex. SII responses were compared to those from adjacent SI and insular cortex. In the three areas we elicited mostly somatosensory responses, including paresthesiae, temperature and pain sensations. The rate of painful sensations (10%) was similar in SII and in the insula, while no painful sensation was evoked in SI. A few non-somatosensory responses were evoked by SII stimulation. Conversely various types of non-somatosensory responses (auditory, vegetative, vestibular, olfacto-gustatory, etc.) were evoked only by insular stimulation, confirming that SII, like SI, are mostly devoted to the processing of somatosensory inputs whereas the insular cortex is a polymodal area. We also found differences in size and lateralization of skin projection fields of evoked sensations between the three studied areas, showing a spatial resolution of the somatotopic map in SII intermediate between those found in SI and insula. This study shows the existence of three distinct somatosensory maps in the suprasylvian, opercular and insular regions, and separate pain representations in SII and insular cortex.
Key Words: insula • intracerebral stimulation • pain • second somatosensory area • somesthesia
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