Peripheral Somatosensory Stimulation Induced Cortical Plasticity and its Clinical Application on Functional Restoration in Chronic Stroke.

Author

Wu, Carolyn W H

Author_Institution

Human Cortical Physiol. Sect., Nat. Inst. of Health, Bethesda, MD

fYear

2006

Firstpage

5230

Lastpage

5233

Abstract

Somatosensory input is required for motor control and motor learning. It has been shown that a short period of peripheral somatosensory stimulation (PSS), leads to increases in motor cortical excitability and enhancement of motor memory encoding that outlast the stimulation period. However, the mechanisms by which PSS modulates cortical activities and its clinical application in restoring functions after brain injuries are not completely understood. Here, we conduced two sets of experiments to address these issues

Keywords

brain; neuromuscular stimulation; patient rehabilitation; somatosensory phenomena; brain injuries; chronic stroke; clinical application; cortical activities; cortical plasticity; functional restoration; motor control; motor cortical excitability; motor learning; motor memory encoding; peripheral somatosensory stimulation; Analysis of variance; Blood flow; Gravity; Humans; Laboratories; Magnetic resonance imaging; Neuroplasticity; Physiology; Space vector pulse width modulation; Thumb;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2005. IEEE-EMBS 2005. 27th Annual International Conference of the

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8741-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2005.1615658

Filename

1615658