ArticleFrontiers in aging neuroscience2016
Age-Related Differences in Corticospinal Excitability during Observation and Motor Imagery of Balance Tasks.
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- Early sleep after action observation plus motor imagery improves gait and balance abilities in older adults.Scientific reports · 2024Trial
- The ageing brain: Cortical overactivation - How does it evolve?The Journal of physiology · 2026Review
- Corticospinal excitability is facilitated during coordinative action observation and motor imagery.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2025Article
- Enhancing motor imagery practice using synchronous action observation.Psychological research · 2024Review
- Process of dynamic balance recovery after voluntary perturbation: a time-series data analysis of young and older adults.Journal of physical therapy science · 2024Article
- Motor imagery training to improve language processing: What are the arguments?Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Review
- Modulation of intracortical inhibition during physically performed and mentally simulated balance tasks.European journal of applied physiology · 2021Article
- Physical activity and exercise: Strategies to manage frailty.Redox biology · 2020Review
- Interference of action perception on action production increases across the adult life span.Experimental brain research · 2018Article
- Balance Training Reduces Brain Activity during Motor Simulation of a Challenging Balance Task in Older Adults: An fMRI Study.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2018Article
- The Reliability of Neurological Measurement in the Vastus Medialis: Implications for Research and Practice.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
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Abstract
Postural control declines across adult lifespan. Non-physical balance training has been suggested as an alternative to improve postural control in frail/immobilized elderly people. Previous studies showed that this kind of training can improve balance control in young and older adults. However, it is unclear whether the brain of young and older adults is activated differently during mental simulations of balance tasks. For this purpose, soleus (SOL) and tibialis motor evoked potentials (MEPs) and SOL H-reflexes were elicited while 15 elderly (mean ± SD = 71 ± 4.6 years) and 15 young participants (mean ± SD = 27 ± 4.6 years) mentally simulated static and dynamic balance tasks using motor imagery (MI), action observation (AO) or the combination of AO and MI (AO + MI). Young subjects displayed significant modulations of MEPs that depended on the kind of mental simulation and the postural task. Elderly adults also revealed differences between tasks, but not between mental simulation conditions. Furthermore, the elderly displayed larger MEP facilitation during mental simulation (AGE-GROUP;
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