Conscious perception and the role of the basal ganglia: preliminary findings from a deep brain stimulation study
Boonstra, E. A.; Bais, M. N.; van Schouwenburg, M. R.; van den Munckhof, P.; Smit, D. J. A.; Denys, D.; Slagter, H. A.
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Conscious perception is thought to depend on global amplification of sensory input. In recent years, the basal ganglia have been implicated in gating conscious access due to their consistent involvement in thalamocortical loops. However, much of the evidence implicating the basal ganglia in these processes in humans is correlational. The current study is a preliminary investigation in four patients to explore whether deep brain stimulation (DBS) in the basal ganglia might improve conscious perception. In our study, treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) patients with a striatal DBS implant completed two canonical conscious perception tasks: emotion-induced blindness and backward masking. We found preliminary evidence in support of a role played by the basal ganglia in conscious perception at the behavioral level: patients performed better when stimulation was active, but we could not establish neural effects corresponding to these behavioral findings, possibly due to our small sample size. We discuss the potential implications and limitations of our study and delineate avenues for future research.
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