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Influence of mirror therapy on human motor cortex
Influence of mirror therapy on human motor cortex. Int J Neurosci. 2007 Jul;117(7):1039-48 Authors: Fukumura K, Sugawara K, Tanabe S, Ushiba J, Tomita Y This article investigates whether or not mirror therapy alters the neural mechanisms in human motor cortex. Six healthy volunteers par... Read more ...
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Cerebellar activity evoked by common tool-use...
Cerebellar activity evoked by common tool-use execution and imagery tasks: an fMRI study. Cortex. 2007 Apr;43(3):350-8 Authors: Higuchi S, Imamizu H, Kawato M The purpose of this study is to identify the functional brain networks activated in relation to actual tool-use in humans. Althou... Read more ...
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Cognitive tools for rehabilitation
Motor imagery and action observation: cognitive tools for rehabilitation. J Neural Transm. 2007 Jun 20; Authors: Mulder T Rehabilitation, for a large part may be seen as a learning process where old skills have to be re-acquired and new ones have to be learned on the basis of practic... Read more ...
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Overt and imagined singing of an Italian aria
Overt and imagined singing of an Italian aria. Neuroimage . 2007 Mar 24; Authors: Kleber B, Birbaumer N, Veit R, Trevorrow T, Lotze M Activation maps of 16 professional classical singers were evaluated during overt singing and imagined singing of an Italian aria utilizing a sparse sampli... Read more ...
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Mirror therapy enhances lower-extremity motor...
Mirror therapy enhances lower-extremity motor recovery and motor functioning after stroke: a randomized controlled trial. Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2007 May;88(5):555-9 Authors: Sütbeyaz S, Yavuzer G, Sezer N, Koseoglu BF OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effects of mirror therapy, using motor i... Read more ...
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Mental practice in chronic stroke: results of a...
Mental practice in chronic stroke: results of a randomized, placebo-controlled trial. Stroke . 2007 Apr;38(4):1293-7 Authors: Page SJ, Levine P, Leonard A BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Mental practice (MP) of a particular motor skill has repeatedly been shown to activate the same musculature a... Read more ...
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Motor imagery for pathologic pain
Graded motor imagery for pathologic pain: a randomized controlled trial. Neurology . 2006 Dec 26;67(12):2129-34 Authors: Moseley GL BACKGROUND: Phantom limb and complex regional pain syndrome type 1 (CRPS1) are characterized by changes in cortical processing and organization, perceptual ... Read more ...
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Motor imagery and stroke rehabilitation
Motor imagery and stroke rehabilitation: a critical discussion. J Rehabil Med. 2007 Jan;39(1):5-13 Authors: de Vries S, Mulder T Motor disorders are a frequent consequence of stroke and much effort is invested in the re-acquisition of motor control. Although patients often regain some o... Read more ...
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The neural basis of narrative imagery
The neural basis of narrative imagery: emotion and action. Prog Brain Res. 2006;156:93-103 Authors: Sabatinelli D, Lang PJ, Bradley MM, Flaisch T It has been proposed that narrative emotional imagery activates an associative network of stimulus, semantic, and response (procedural) infor... Read more ...
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Motor imagery of gait: a quantitative approach
Motor imagery of gait: a quantitative approach. Exp Brain Res. 2007 Jan 9; Authors: Bakker M, de Lange FP, Stevens JA, Toni I, Bloem BR Motor imagery (MI) is widely used to study cognitive aspects of the neural control of action. Prior studies were mostly centred on hand and arm move... Read more ...