Optical illusion alters M1 excitability after mirror therapy: a TMS study
| Autor: | Farsin Hamzei, C. H. Läppchen, T. Ringer, Rüdiger Lange, J. Blessin, S. Grieshammer, G. Seidel |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male Physiology medicine.medical_treatment education Sensory system Visual feedback Functional Laterality Feedback Sensory medicine Humans Optical illusion Optical Illusions General Neuroscience Motor Cortex Neural Inhibition Evoked Potentials Motor Hand Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Transcranial magnetic stimulation Mirror therapy Motor Skills Case-Control Studies Motor recovery Female Primary motor cortex Psychology Neuroscience |
| Zdroj: | Journal of neurophysiology. 108(10) |
| ISSN: | 1522-1598 |
| Popis: | The contralesional primary motor cortex (M1) has been suggested to be involved in the motor recovery after mirror therapy, but whether the ipsilesional M1 is influenced by the contralesional M1 via transcallosal interhemispheric inhibition (IHI) is still unclear. The present study investigated the change of IHI as well as the intracortical inhibition and intracortical facilitation of both M1 induced by training in a mirror with the use of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). In this 2 × 2 factorial design (time × group), healthy subjects exercised standardized motor skills with their right hand on four consecutive days. Either a mirror (mirror group) or a board (control group) was positioned between their hands. Before and after training TMS was applied along with training tests of both hands. Tests were the same motor skills exercised daily by both groups. Tests of the untrained left hand improved significantly more in the mirror group than in the control group after training ( P = 0.02) and showed a close correlation with an increase of intracortical inhibition of M1left. IHI did not show any difference between investigation time points and groups. The present study confirms the previous suggestion of the involvement of the “contralesional” left-side (ipsilateral to the hand behind the mirror) M1 after mirror therapy, which is not mediated by IHI. Even with the same motor skill training (both groups performed same motor skills) but with different visual information, different networks are involved in training-induced plasticity. |
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