Nature Communications (Jun 2022)

Cerebellar stimulation prevents Levodopa-induced dyskinesia in mice and normalizes activity in a motor network

  • Bérénice Coutant,
  • Jimena Laura Frontera,
  • Elodie Perrin,
  • Adèle Combes,
  • Thibault Tarpin,
  • Fabien Menardy,
  • Caroline Mailhes-Hamon,
  • Sylvie Perez,
  • Bertrand Degos,
  • Laurent Venance,
  • Clément Léna,
  • Daniela Popa

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30844-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Here, the authors studied how cerebellar stimulation alleviates levodopa-induced dyskinesia (LID). They demonstrated that Purkinje cell opto-stimulation is sufficient to prevent LID development and can normalize brain activity in a wide motor network in mice.