TY - GEN
T1 - An fMRI pilot study evaluating brain activation during different finger training exercises
AU - Tang, Zhenjin
AU - Iwata, Hiroyasu
AU - Sugano, Shigeki
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2015/9/28
Y1 - 2015/9/28
N2 - The recovery of motor function after stroke is widely considered to result from brain plasticity. However, what kind of training exercise can better provoke brain plastic processes is still unclear. Studying regional brain activation during a specific training exercise may provide value information that can help design more effective therapeutic approaches. In this paper, we monitored brain activation when subjects performed four different finger training exercises: left middle finger passive movement (LMFP), left middle finger active movement (LMFA), middle finger self-motion control movement (MF), and both middle fingers active movement (BMFA). Eight healthy volunteers were involved in this study. The results indicated that the LFMA results in stronger brain activation than the LMFP in the left insular, left inferior frontal cortex, right middle cingulate cortex, left S1, bilateral cerebellum, SMA, and right inferior frontal areas. However, we did not find a significant difference when comparing the the MF and the BMFA conditions.
AB - The recovery of motor function after stroke is widely considered to result from brain plasticity. However, what kind of training exercise can better provoke brain plastic processes is still unclear. Studying regional brain activation during a specific training exercise may provide value information that can help design more effective therapeutic approaches. In this paper, we monitored brain activation when subjects performed four different finger training exercises: left middle finger passive movement (LMFP), left middle finger active movement (LMFA), middle finger self-motion control movement (MF), and both middle fingers active movement (BMFA). Eight healthy volunteers were involved in this study. The results indicated that the LFMA results in stronger brain activation than the LMFP in the left insular, left inferior frontal cortex, right middle cingulate cortex, left S1, bilateral cerebellum, SMA, and right inferior frontal areas. However, we did not find a significant difference when comparing the the MF and the BMFA conditions.
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U2 - 10.1109/ICORR.2015.7281329
DO - 10.1109/ICORR.2015.7281329
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84946046132
T3 - IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics
SP - 967
EP - 972
BT - Proceedings of the IEEE/RAS-EMBS International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics
A2 - Yu, Haoyong
A2 - Braun, David
A2 - Campolo, Domenico
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 14th IEEE/RAS-EMBS International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, ICORR 2015
Y2 - 11 August 2015 through 14 August 2015
ER -