Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Applications Normalized Prefrontal Dysfunctions and Cognitive-Related Metabolic Profiling in Aged Mice |
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| Authors: | Hualong Wang Yuan Geng Bing Han Jing Qiang Xiaoli Li Meiyu Sun Qian Wang Mingwei Wang |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Neurology, the first hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, PR China.; 2. Brain Aging and Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory of Hebei province, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, PR China.; Imperial College London, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, United Kingdom, |
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| Abstract: | Chronic high-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is a noninvasive brain stimulation technique that has recently received increasing interests as a therapeutic procedure for neurodegenerative diseases. To identify the metabolism mechanism underlying the improving effects of rTMS, we observed that high frequency (25Hz) rTMS for 14 days could reverse the decline of the performance of the passive avoidance task in aged mice. We further investigated the metabolite profiles in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) in those mice and found that rTMS could also reverse the metabolic abnormalities of gamma-aminobutyric acid, N-acetyl aspartic, and cholesterol levels to the degree similar to the young mice. These data suggested that the rTMS could ameliorate the age-related cognitive impairment and improving the metabolic profiles in PFC, and potentially can be used to improve cognitive decline in the elderly. |
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