Identificador persistente para citar o vincular este elemento: http://hdl.handle.net/10553/48129
Título: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study of visuomotor processing in a virtual reality-based paradigm: Rehabilitation Gaming System
Autores/as: Prochnow, D.
Bermudez i Badia, S. 
Schmidt, J.
Duff, A.
Brunheim, S.
Kleiser, R.
Seitz, R. J.
Verschure, P. F.M.J.
Clasificación UNESCO: 32 Ciencias médicas
Palabras clave: Magnetic resonance
Visuomotor
Gaming system
Fecha de publicación: 2013
Publicación seriada: European Journal of Neuroscience 
Resumen: The Rehabilitation Gaming System (RGS) has been designed as a flexible, virtual-reality (VR)-based device for rehabilitation of neurological patients. Recently, training of visuomotor processing with the RGS was shown to effectively improve arm function in acute and chronic stroke patients. It is assumed that the VR-based training protocol related to RGS creates conditions that aid recovery by virtue of the human mirror neuron system. Here, we provide evidence for this assumption by identifying the brain areas involved in controlling the catching of approaching colored balls in the virtual environment of the RGS. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging of 18 right-handed healthy subjects (24 ± 3 years) in both active and imagination conditions. We observed that the imagery of target catching was related to activation of frontal, parietal, temporal, cingulate and cerebellar regions. We interpret these activations in relation to object processing, attention, mirror mechanisms, and motor intention. Active catching followed an anticipatory mode, and resulted in significantly less activity in the motor control areas. Our results provide preliminary support for the hypothesis underlying RGS that this novel neurorehabilitation approach engages human mirror mechanisms that can be employed for visuomotor training.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10553/48129
ISSN: 0953-816X
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12157
Fuente: European Journal Of Neuroscience[ISSN 0953-816X],v. 37 (9), p. 1441-1447 (Febrero 2013)
Colección:Artículos
Vista completa

Citas SCOPUSTM   

56
actualizado el 24-mar-2024

Citas de WEB OF SCIENCETM
Citations

52
actualizado el 25-feb-2024

Visitas

36
actualizado el 13-ene-2024

Google ScholarTM

Verifica

Altmetric


Comparte



Exporta metadatos



Los elementos en ULPGC accedaCRIS están protegidos por derechos de autor con todos los derechos reservados, a menos que se indique lo contrario.