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Network configurations of pain: an efficiency characterization of information transmission

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Recent studies have shown that gamma-band oscillations are directly related to pain intensity. Pain can be exacerbated or diminished via deactivation or activation of inhibitory interneurons in the dorsal horn. We consider a biologically plausible network model with different proportion of inhibitory neurons to emulate gamma elicited activity during pain processes. We perform an analysis using graph theory to gain further insight in the functional state of the circuitry underlying nociceptive process, considering all the possible gamma elicited configurations of pain when changing the number of inhibitory neurons. The probability distribution of the signal associated with each node or neuron is estimated through the Bandt and Pompe approach. We evaluate the Jensen–Shannon distance between all the possible pairs of nodes/neurons, characterizing the different network configurations by calculating the closeness centrality. Thus, by building the graph properties through the node strength distributions and using an information theoretical approach, we characterize the dynamics of the network configurations of pain. This allows us to identify the nonlinear dynamical structure underlying the nociceptive process. Importantly, our findings show that a network configuration with a \(20\%\) of inhibitory neurons boosts information transmission of the complex network circuitry associated with the pain processing.

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Acknowledgements

We gratefully acknowledge funding from PUE 22920170100066CO IFLP-CONICET Argentina, PIP 11220130100327CO (2014/2016) CONICET, Argentina (F.M.), and project 80120190100127LP Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina.

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    Romina De Luise, Roman Baravalle & Fernando Montani

  2. Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal de Alagoas (UFAL), BR 104 Norte km 97, 57072-970, Maceió, Brazil

    Osvaldo A. Rosso

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De Luise, R., Baravalle, R., Rosso, O.A. et al. Network configurations of pain: an efficiency characterization of information transmission. Eur. Phys. J. B 94, 34 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/s10051-021-00046-6

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