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ArticleFrontiers in human neuroscience2018

Weak but Critical Links between Primary Somatosensory Centers and Motor Cortex during Movement.

Pengxu Wei, Ruixue Bao, Zeping Lv, Bin Jing

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Article in Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Pengxu WeiBeijing Key Laboratory of Rehabilitation Technical Aids for Old-Age Disability, Key Laboratory of Neuro-functional Information and Rehabilitation Engineering of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, National Research Center for Rehabilitation Technical Aids, Beijing, China.
Ruixue BaoBeijing Boai Hospital, School of Rehabilitation Medicine, China Rehabilitation Research Center, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
Zeping LvBeijing Key Laboratory of Rehabilitation Technical Aids for Old-Age Disability, Key Laboratory of Neuro-functional Information and Rehabilitation Engineering of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, National Research Center for Rehabilitation Technical Aids, Beijing, China.
Bin JingSchool of Biomedical Engineering, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
National Research Center for Rehabilitation Technical Aids · CNCapital Medical University · CNChina Rehabilitation Research Center · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Motor performance is improved by stimulation of the agonist muscle during movement. However, related brain mechanisms remain unknown. In this work, we perform a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study in 21 healthy subjects under three different conditions: (1) movement of right ankle alone; (2) movement and simultaneous stimulation of the agonist muscle; or (3) movement and simultaneous stimulation of a control area. We constructed weighted brain networks for each condition by using functional connectivity. Network features were analyzed using graph theoretical approaches. We found that: (1) the second condition evokes the strongest and most widespread brain activations (5147 vs. 4419 and 2320 activated voxels); and (2) this condition also induces a unique network layout and changes hubs and the modular structure of the brain motor network by activating the most "silent" links between primary somatosensory centers and the motor cortex, particularly weak links from the thalamus to the left primary motor cortex (M1). Significant statistical differences were found when the strength values of the right cerebellum (

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functional connectivityfunctional magnetic resonance imaginggraph theorymotor controlweighted brain network

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