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Motor cortex plasticity during constraint-induced movement therapy in stroke patients.
Joachim Liepert,Wolfgang H. R. Miltner,Heike Bauder,M. Sommer,Christian Dettmers,Edward Taub,Cornelius Weiller +6 more
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Even in chronic stroke patients, reduced motor cortex representations of an affected body part can be enlarged and increased in level of excitability by an effective rehabilitation procedure, demonstrating a CNS correlate of therapy-induced recovery of function after nervous system damage in humans.About:
This article is published in Neuroscience Letters.The article was published on 1998-06-26. It has received 717 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Motor cortex & Transcranial magnetic stimulation.read more
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Treatment-Induced Cortical Reorganization After Stroke in Humans
TL;DR: This is the first demonstration in humans of a long-term alteration in brain function associated with a therapy-induced improvement in the rehabilitation of movement after neurological injury.
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Virtual environments for motor rehabilitation: review.
TL;DR: The current "state of the art" for virtual reality (VR) applications in the field of motor rehabilitation is reviewed and movements learned by people with disabilities in VR transfer to real world equivalent motor tasks in most cases, and in some cases even generalize to other untrained tasks.
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Effects of non-invasive cortical stimulation on skilled motor function in chronic stroke
Friedhelm C. Hummel,Pablo Celnik,Pascal Giraux,Agnes Flöel,Wan Hsun Wu,Christian Gerloff,Leonardo G. Cohen +6 more
TL;DR: Results document a beneficial effect of non-invasive cortical stimulation on a set of hand functions that mimic activities of daily living in the paretic hand of patients with chronic stroke, and suggest that this interventional strategy in combination with customary rehabilitative treatments may play an adjuvant role in neurorehabilitation.
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Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy: a new family of techniques with broad application to physical rehabilitation--a clinical review.
TL;DR: The CI Therapy approach has been used successfully to date for the upper limb of patients with Chronic and subacute CVA and patients with chronic traumatic brain injury and for the lower limb of Patients with CVA, incomplete spinal cord injury, and fractured hip and has recently been extended to focal hand dystonia of musicians and possibly phantom limb pain.
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Virtual reality-enhanced stroke rehabilitation
David Jack,Rares Boian,Alma S. Merians,Marilyn Tremaine,Grigore C. Burdea,Sergei V. Adamovich,M. Recce,M. Recce,Howard Poizner +8 more
TL;DR: A personal computer (PC)-based desktop virtual reality (VR) system was developed for rehabilitating hand function in stroke patients that uses two input devices, a CyberGlove and a Rutgers Master II-ND force feedback glove, allowing user interaction with a virtual environment.
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Neural Substrates for the Effects of Rehabilitative Training on Motor Recovery After Ischemic Infarct
TL;DR: The results suggest that, after local damage to the motor cortex, rehabilitative training can shape subsequent reorganization in the adjacent intact cortex, and that the undamaged motor cortex may play an important role in motor recovery.
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Technique to improve chronic motor deficit after stroke
Edward Taub,Neal E. Miller,Thomas A. Novack,E W Cook rd,W C Fleming,C S Nepomuceno,J S Connell,Jean E. Crago +7 more
TL;DR: Extensive restraint of an unaffected upper extremity and practice of functional movements with the impaired limb proved to be an effective means of restoring substantial motor function in stroke patients with chronic motor impairment identified by the inclusion criteria of this project.
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Interhemispheric inhibition of the human motor cortex.
TL;DR: In contrast to the inhibition of test responses evoked by magnetic test stimuli, test responsesevoked in active FDI by a small anodal electric shock were not significantly inhibited by a contralateral magnetic conditioning stimulus, and H reflexes in relaxed forearm flexor muscles were unaffected by conditioning stimuli to the ipsilateral hemisphere.
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Modulation of muscle responses evoked by transcranial magnetic stimulation during the acquisition of new fine motor skills
Alvaro Pascual-Leone,D. Nguyet,Leonardo G. Cohen,J. P. Brasil-Neto,A. Cammarota,Mark Hallett +5 more
TL;DR: Trans transcranial magnetic stimulation is used to study the role of plastic changes of the human motor system in the acquisition of new fine motor skills and the effect of increased hand use without specific skill learning in subjects who played the piano at will for 2 h each day but who were not taught the five-finger exercise.
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Reshaping the cortical motor map by unmasking latent intracortical connections
TL;DR: During pharmacological blockade of cortical inhibition in one part of the MI representation, movements of neighboring representations were evoked by stimulation in adjacent MI areas, suggesting that intracortical connections form a substrate for reorganization of cortical maps and that inhibitory circuits are critically placed to maintain or readjust the form of cortical motor representations.