ArticleFrontiers in human neuroscience2011
A combined robotic and cognitive training for locomotor rehabilitation: evidences of cerebral functional reorganization in two chronic traumatic brain injured patients.
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- Converging Robotic Technologies in Targeted Neural Rehabilitation: A Review of Emerging Solutions and Challenges.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Motor imagery training speeds up gait recovery and decreases the risk of falls in patients submitted to total knee arthroplasty.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Effects of supraspinal feedback on human gait: rhythmic auditory distortion.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2019Article
- Video Game Training Enhances Visuospatial Working Memory and Episodic Memory in Older Adults.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2016Article
- Interpreting Intervention Induced Neuroplasticity with fMRI: The Case for Multimodal Imaging Strategies.Neural plasticity · 2016Review
- Rehabilitation of Communicative Abilities in Patients with a History of TBI: Behavioral Improvements and Cerebral Changes in Resting-State Activity.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2016Article
- Imaging brain plasticity after trauma.Neural regeneration research · 2014Article
- Neurophysiology of robot-mediated training and therapy: a perspective for future use in clinical populations.Frontiers in neurology · 2013Review
- Detection of motor execution using a hybrid fNIRS-biosignal BCI: a feasibility study.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2013Article
- Training-induced cognitive and neural plasticity.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2013Article
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Abstract
It has been demonstrated that automated locomotor training can improve walking capabilities in spinal cord-injured subjects but its effectiveness on brain damaged patients has not been well established. A possible explanation of the discordant results on the efficacy of robotic training in patients with cerebral lesions could be that these patients, besides stimulation of physiological motor patterns through passive leg movements, also need to train the cognitive aspects of motor control. Indeed, another way to stimulate cerebral motor areas in paretic patients is to use the cognitive function of motor imagery. A promising possibility is thus to combine sensorimotor training with the use of motor imagery. The aim of this paper is to assess changes in brain activations after a combined sensorimotor and cognitive training for gait rehabilitation. The protocol consisted of the integrated use of a robotic gait orthosis prototype with locomotor imagery tasks. Assessment was conducted on two patients with chronic traumatic brain injury and major gait impairments, using functional magnetic resonance imaging. Physiatric functional scales were used to assess clinical outcomes. Results showed greater activation post-training in the sensorimotor and supplementary motor cortices, as well as enhanced functional connectivity within the motor network. Improvements in balance and, to a lesser extent, in gait outcomes were also found.
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