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ArticleFrontiers in behavioral neuroscience2018

Balance Training Reduces Brain Activity during Motor Simulation of a Challenging Balance Task in Older Adults: An fMRI Study.

Jan Ruffieux, Audrey Mouthon, Martin Keller, Michaël Mouthon, Jean-Marie Annoni, Wolfgang Taube

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Article in Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jan RuffieuxMovement and Sport Sciences, Department of Medicine, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland.
Audrey MouthonMovement and Sport Sciences, Department of Medicine, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland.
Martin KellerMovement and Sport Sciences, Department of Medicine, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland.
Michaël MouthonNeurology Laboratory, Department of Medicine, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland.
Jean-Marie AnnoniNeurology Laboratory, Department of Medicine, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland.
Wolfgang TaubeMovement and Sport Sciences, Department of Medicine, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland.
University of Fribourg · CH

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Aging is associated with a shift from an automatic to a more cortical postural control strategy, which goes along with deteriorations in postural stability. Although balance training has been shown to effectively counteract these behavioral deteriorations, little is known about the effect of balance training on brain activity during postural tasks in older adults. We, therefore, assessed postural stability and brain activity using fMRI during motor imagery alone (MI) and in combination with action observation (AO; i.e., AO+MI) of a challenging balance task in older adults before and after 5 weeks of balance training. Results showed a nonsignificant trend toward improvements in postural stability after balance training, accompanied by reductions in brain activity during AO+MI of the balance task in areas relevant for postural control, which have been shown to be over-activated in older adults during (simulation of) motor performance, including motor, premotor, and multisensory vestibular areas. This suggests that balance training may reverse the age-related cortical over-activations and lead to changes in the control of upright posture toward the one observed in young adults.

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AO+MIbalance trainingbrain activityfMRIolder adultspostural control

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