SynthesisNeuropsychology review2014
Impact of neurologic deficits on motor imagery: a systematic review of clinical evaluations.
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62 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Imagery ability assessments: a cross-disciplinary systematic review and quality evaluation of psychometric properties.BMC medicine · 2022Pooled it
- Mental practice for treating upper extremity deficits in individuals with hemiparesis after stroke.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020Pooled it
- Motor imagery for pain and motor function after spinal cord injury: a systematic review.Spinal cord · 2020Pooled it
- Efficacy of a multimodal conservative rehabilitation program for bladder control in individuals with incomplete spinal cord injury: A randomized controlled trial.The Journal of international medical research · 2026Trial
- Spatial constraints and cognitive fatigue affect motor imagery of walking in people with multiple sclerosis.Scientific reports · 2020Trial
- Examination of the Reliability and Responsiveness of a Japanese Version of the Movement Imagery Questionnaire for Children: Toward Application in Children With Developmental Coordination Disorder.Occupational therapy international · 2026Article
- Mental imagery after stroke: an exploratory study to investigate the relationship with cognitive and motor performance during rehabilitation.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2025Article
- Recommendations for Combining Brain-Computer Interface, Motor Imagery, and Virtual Reality in Upper Limb Stroke Rehabilitation: Qualitative Participatory Design Study.JMIR rehabilitation and assistive technologies · 2025Article
- Quantifying and evaluating motor imagery ability using EEG microstates in MI-BCI training.Experimental brain research · 2025Article
- Identifying Issues in Effective Motor Imagery Training Practice in Children With Developmental Coordination Disorder: A Scoping Review.Occupational therapy international · 2025Article
- The Impact of Sports Training on the Spinal Cord Injury Individual's Balance.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Towards efficient motor imagery interventions after lower-limb amputation.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2024Article
- Action Observation and Motor Imagery as a Treatment in Patients with Parkinson's Disease.Journal of Parkinson's disease · 2024Review
- National Clinical Guideline for Stroke for the United Kingdom and Ireland: Part I - An overview of the updated recommendations.The British journal of occupational therapy · 2023Article
- Leveraging Motor Imagery Rehabilitation for Individuals with Disabilities: A Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- A Quantitative Investigation of Mental Fatigue Elicited during Motor Imagery Practice: Selective Effects on Maximal Force Performance and Imagery Ability.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- Mental imagery content is associated with disease severity and specific brain functional connectivity changes in patients with Parkinson's disease.Brain imaging and behavior · 2023Article
- Inter-Task Transfer of Prism Adaptation through Motor Imagery.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- Motor imagery training to improve language processing: What are the arguments?Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Review
- Inter-task transfer of force gains is facilitated by motor imagery.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
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Abstract
Motor imagery (MI, the mental representation of an action without engaging in its actual execution) is a therapeutically relevant technique to promote motor recovery after neurologic disorders. MI shares common neural and psychological bases with physical practice. Interestingly, both acute and progressive neurologic disorders impact brain motor networks, hence potentially eliciting changes in MI capacities. How experimental neuroscientists and medical practitioners should assess and take into account these changes in order to design fruitful interventions is largely unresolved. Understanding how the psychometric, behavioral and neurophysiological correlates of MI are impacted by neurologic disorders is required. To address this brain-behavior issue, we conducted a systematic review of MI data in stroke, Parkinson's disease, spinal cord injury, and amputee participants. MI evaluation methods are presented. Redundant MI profiles, primarily based on psychometric and behavioral evaluations, emerged in each clinical population. When present, changes in the psychometric and behavioral correlates of MI were highly congruent with the corresponding motor impairments. Neurophysiological recordings yielded specific changes in cerebral activations during MI, which mirrored structural and functional reorganizations due to neuroplasticity. In this view, MI capacities may not be deteriorated per se by neurologic diseases resulting in chronic motor incapacities, but adjusted to the current state of the motor system. Literature-driven orientations for future clinical research are provided.
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