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ReviewNeurologia medico-chirurgica2024

Is Phantom Limb Awareness Necessary for the Treatment of Phantom Limb Pain?

Huixiang Yang, Takufumi Yanagisawa

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Review in Neurologia medico-chirurgica, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
2.6field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Huixiang YangInstitute for Advanced Co-creation Studies, Osaka University.
Takufumi YanagisawaInstitute for Advanced Co-creation Studies, Osaka University.
The University of Osaka · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Phantom limb pain is attributed to abnormal sensorimotor cortical representations. Various feedback treatments have been applied to induce the reorganization of the sensorimotor cortical representations to reduce pain. We developed a training protocol using a brain-computer interface (BCI) to induce plastic changes in the sensorimotor cortical representation of phantom hand movements and demonstrated that BCI training effectively reduces phantom limb pain. By comparing the induced cortical representation and pain, the mechanisms worsening the pain have been attributed to the residual phantom hand representation. Based on our data obtained using neurofeedback training without explicit phantom hand movements and hand-like visual feedback, we suggest a direct relationship between cortical representation and pain. In this review, we summarize the results of our BCI training protocol and discuss the relationship between cortical representation and phantom limb pain. We propose a treatment for phantom limb pain based on real-time neuroimaging to induce appropriate cortical reorganization by monitoring cortical activities.

Indexed as

Motor CortexPhantom LimbSensorimotor CortexHandHumansNeuroimagingbrain-computer interfacemagnetoencephalographyneurofeedback trainingphantom limb painsensorimotor plasticity

Identifiers

PMID38267056
PMCPMC10992984
OpenAlexW4391127213

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