Rehabilitation, for a large part may be seen as a learning process where old skills have to
be re-acquired and new ones have to be learned on the basis of practice. Active exercising …

Dystonia is typically considered a movement disorder characterized by motor
manifestations, primarily involuntary muscle contractions causing twisting movements and …

Simple Summary This review highlights the scope of available treatment options for
neurological diseases, especially stem cell transplantation therapy, which provides new …

Dystonias comprise a group of movement disorders that are characterized by involuntary
movements and postures. Insight into the nature of neuronal dysfunction has been provided …

Motor imagery is widely used to study cognitive aspects of the neural control of action.
However, what is exactly simulated during motor imagery is still a matter of debate. On the …

Behavioural and functional neuroanatomy studies demonstrate that mental rotation of body
parts is carried out through a sort of inner motor simulation. Here we examined whether …

Motor imagery is a widely used paradigm for the study of cognitive aspects of action control,
both in the healthy and the pathological brain. In this paper we review how motor imagery …

The representation of the body in the brain is continuously updated with regard to peripheral
factors such as position or movement of body parts. In the present study, we investigated the …

For consciously performed motor tasks executed in a defined and constant way, both motor
imagery (MI) and action observation (AO) have been shown to promote motor learning. It is …

The left/right judgment task (LRJT) is the most commonly used method of assessing motor
imagery performance. Abnormally long response times are thought to reflect delayed …