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Mirror therapy for alleviating chronic pain
via Medgadget McCabe and co-workers from the University of Bath and the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases (RNHRD)have published in the journal Clinical Medicine the results of a study, which has investigated the use of mirror as a therapeutic mean to alleviate pain. The tre... Read more ...
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Theta brainwave triggered training boosts old...
It has long been known that hippocampus is involved in the learning process. A study published on the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (USA) has shown that theta brainwave triggered training can enhance learning rate in old rabbits, contrasting the deficit determined by the agi... Read more ...
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Mental rotation in a patient with an implanted...
Neuroreport. 2005 Nov 7;16(16):1795-1800 Authors: Tomasino B, Budai R, Mondani M, Skrap M, Rumiati RI We investigated the effects of cortical stimulation on mental rotation tasks in a patient with an electrode array placed over his left primary motor cortex. The array was implanted to relie... Read more ...
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Imagery-induced Cortical Excitability Changes...
Results of this focal transcranial magnetic stimulation study recently published on Cerebral Cortex by a team of Italian neuroscientists suggest that motor imagery could induce a pronounced motor output enhancement in the hemisphere affected by stroke. These findings strongly support the use of ... Read more ...
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Brain-imaging study on action observation and...
Earlier studies with monkeys revealed that brain cells called “mirror neurons” respond both when we do something, like pick up an object, and when we simply watch someone else do it. It was known that these neurons fire when we perform an action, but it was unexpected that the same cells also fir... Read more ...