Modulating the interhemispheric activity balance in the intraparietal sulcus using real-time fMRI neurofeedback: Development and proof-of-concept

Autor: Dante Mantini, Tianlu Wang, Céline R. Gillebert, Ronald Peeters
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
Brain activity and meditation
medicine.medical_treatment
dPSC
differential percent signal change
EPI: echoplanar image

ComputingMilieux_LEGALASPECTSOFCOMPUTING
lcsh:RC346-429
QCM
Questionnaire for current Motivation

0302 clinical medicine
FWHM
full-width at half maximum

Parietal Lobe
GLM
general linear model

PANAS
Positive and Negative Affect Scale

TR
repetition time
TVA: Theory of Visual Attention

TE
echo time

Brain Mapping
Rehabilitation
medicine.diagnostic_test
05 social sciences
ROI
region-of-interest

Neurofeedback
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Visual field
Intraparietal sulcus
Neurology
fMRI
functional magnetic resonance imaging

lcsh:R858-859.7
medicine.symptom
Psychology
medicine.medical_specialty
MNI
Montreal Neurological Institute

Cognitive Neuroscience
lcsh:Computer applications to medicine. Medical informatics
050105 experimental psychology
Perceptual Disorders
03 medical and health sciences
Physical medicine and rehabilitation
Hemispatial neglect
medicine
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Radiology
Nuclear Medicine and imaging

lcsh:Neurology. Diseases of the nervous system
Visual attention
Balance (ability)
SE
standard error

NF
neurofeedback

BOLD
blood oxygen level-dependent

IPS
intraparietal sulcus

Articles from the Special Issue on on "Imaging-based biomarkers in psychiatry – diagnosis
prognosis
outcomes" edited by Claire Wilcox and Vince Calhoun
Real-time fMRI
Neurology (clinical)
Visual Fields
Functional magnetic resonance imaging
MRI
magnetic resonance imaging

030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Zdroj: NeuroImage : Clinical
NeuroImage: Clinical, Vol 28, Iss, Pp 102513-(2020)
ISSN: 2213-1582
DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2020.102513
Popis: Highlights • We usied a rtfMRI neurofeedback to modulate interhemispheric IPS activity balance. • Six healthy individuals healthy hea were recruited for a proof-of-concept study. • Two of the six successfully learnt to modulate this balance using rtfMRI neurofeedback. • Neurofeedback did not change the behavioural distribution of attention in the learners. • The results have implications for the rehabilitation of post-stroke hemineglect.
The intraparietal sulcus (IPS) plays a key role in the distribution of attention across the visual field. In stroke patients, an imbalance between left and right IPS activity has been related to a spatial bias in visual attention characteristic of hemispatial neglect. In this study, we describe the development and implementation of a real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging neurofeedback protocol to noninvasively and volitionally control the interhemispheric IPS activity balance in neurologically healthy participants. Six participants performed three neurofeedback training sessions across three weeks. Half of them trained to voluntarily increase brain activity in left relative to right IPS, while the other half trained to regulate the IPS activity balance in the opposite direction. Before and after the training, we estimated the distribution of attention across the visual field using a whole and partial report task. Over the course of the training, two of the three participants in the left-IPS group increased the activity in the left relative to the right IPS, while the participants in the right-IPS group were not able to regulate the interhemispheric IPS activity balance. We found no evidence for a decrease in resting-state functional connectivity between left and right IPS, and the spatial distribution of attention did not change over the course of the experiment. This study indicates the possibility to voluntarily modulate the interhemispheric IPS activity balance. Further research is warranted to examine the effectiveness of this technique in the rehabilitation of post-stroke hemispatial neglect.
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