Abstract
We recorded somatosensory evoked potentials (SEPs) in scalp EEGs during stimulation of the median nerve, the ulnar nerve and the individual digits in 3 normal subjects and in 1 epilepsy patients. In this patient we also measured SEPs from chronically indwelling subdural grid electrodes during electrocorticography (ECoG). We applied dipole modelling techniques to study the 3-dimensional intracerebral locations and time activities of the neuronal sources underlying stimulation of different peripheral receptive fields. The sources underlying median nerve SEPs were located an average of 10.8 mm lateral inferior to those underlying ulnar nerve SEPs. Digit SEP sources showed a somatotopic arrangement from lateral inferior to medial superior in the order thumb, index finger, middle finger, ring finger and little finger, with some overlap or reversal for adjacent digits. The average distance between thumb and little finger was 12.5 mm. Thumb, index finger and middle finger were clustered around median nerve cortical representation, whereas ring finger and little finger were arranged around ulnar nerve cortex. In the epilepsy patient, the source localizations obtained in scalp EEGs showed good agreement with those on ECoGs. We conclude that SEPs recorded in scalp EEGs can be used to study functional topography of human somatosensory cortex non-invasively.
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