Favoring the cognitive-motor process in the closed-loop of BCI mediated post stroke motor function recovery: challenges and approaches

Autor: Jing Mang, Zhuo Xu, YingBin Qi, Ting Zhang
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Frontiers in Neurorobotics, Vol 17 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1662-5218
DOI: 10.3389/fnbot.2023.1271967
Popis: The brain-computer interface (BCI)-mediated rehabilitation is emerging as a solution to restore motor skills in paretic patients after stroke. In the human brain, cortical motor neurons not only fire when actions are carried out but are also activated in a wired manner through many cognitive processes related to movement such as imagining, perceiving, and observing the actions. Moreover, the recruitment of motor cortexes can usually be regulated by environmental conditions, forming a closed-loop through neurofeedback. However, this cognitive-motor control loop is often interrupted by the impairment of stroke. The requirement to bridge the stroke-induced gap in the motor control loop is promoting the evolution of the BCI-based motor rehabilitation system and, notably posing many challenges regarding the disease-specific process of post stroke motor function recovery. This review aimed to map the current literature surrounding the new progress in BCI-mediated post stroke motor function recovery involved with cognitive aspect, particularly in how it refired and rewired the neural circuit of motor control through motor learning along with the BCI-centric closed-loop.
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