ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2017
Imagine There Is No Plegia. Mental Motor Imagery Difficulties in Patients with Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury.
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- The impact of non-invasive brain-computer interface technology on the therapeutic effect of patients with spinal cord injury: a summary of evidence based on meta-analysis.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2025Pooled it
- Exploring the impact of aging on motor imagery abilities: a systematic review with meta-analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2024Pooled it
- Motor imagery for pain and motor function after spinal cord injury: a systematic review.Spinal cord · 2020Pooled it
- TMS-Based Neurofeedback Training of Mental Finger Individuation Induces Neuroplastic Changes in the Sensorimotor System.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Locked-in syndrome revisited.Therapeutic advances in neurological disorders · 2023Review
- EEG Channel Selection Techniques in Motor Imagery Applications: A Review and New Perspectives.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Embodiment Comfort Levels During Motor Imagery Training Combined With Immersive Virtual Reality in a Spinal Cord Injury Patient.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
- Cognitive Training Improves Disconnected Limbs' Mental Representation and Peripersonal Space after Spinal Cord Injury.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Characterization of kinesthetic motor imagery compared with visual motor imageries.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Virtual reality for the treatment of neuropathic pain in people with spinal cord injuries: A scoping review.The journal of spinal cord medicine · 2021Article
- What Internal Variables Affect Sensorimotor Rhythm Brain-Computer Interface (SMR-BCI) Performance?HCA healthcare journal of medicine · 2021Review
- A BCI System Based on Motor Imagery for Assisting People with Motor Deficiencies in the Limbs.Brain sciences · 2020Article
- HD-EEG Based Classification of Motor-Imagery Related Activity in Patients With Spinal Cord Injury.Frontiers in neurology · 2018Article
- Synergistic integration of epidural spinal cord stimulation with robotic therapy and neurorehabilitation to facilitate functional recovery in chronic sensorimotor complete spinal cord injury: A case series.Advances in rehabilitation science and practiceArticle
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In rehabilitation of patients with spinal cord injury (SCI), imagination of movement is a candidate tool to promote long-term recovery or to control futuristic neuroprostheses. However, little is known about the ability of patients with spinal cord injury to perform this task. It is likely that without the ability to effectively perform the movement, the imagination of movement is also problematic. We therefore examined, whether patients with SCI experience increased difficulties in motor imagery (MI) compared to healthy controls. We examined 7 male patients with traumatic spinal cord injury (aged 23-70 years, median 53) and 20 healthy controls (aged 21-54 years, median 30). All patients had incomplete SCI, with AIS (ASIA Impairment Scale) grades of C or D. All had cervical lesions, except one who had a thoracic injury level. Duration after injury ranged from 3 to 314 months. We performed the Movement Imagery Questionnaire Revised as well as the Beck Depression Inventory in all participants. The self-assessed ability of patients to visually imagine movements ranged from 7 to 36 (
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