Mapping cortical hand motor representation using TMS: A method to assess brain plasticity and a surrogate marker for recovery of function after stroke?

J Lüdemann-Podubecká, DA Nowak - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral …, 2016 - Elsevier
Objective Stroke is associated with reorganization within motor areas of both hemispheres.
Mapping the cortical hand motor representation using transcranial magnetic stimulation may …

Clinical potential and neuroplastic effect of targeted virtual reality based intervention for distal upper limb in post-stroke rehabilitation: a pilot observational study

D Nath, N Singh, M Saini, O Banduni… - Disability and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose A library of Virtual Reality (VR) tasks has been developed for targeted post-stroke
rehabilitation of distal upper extremities. The objective of this pilot study was to evaluate the …

Intensive virtual reality and robotic based upper limb training compared to usual care, and associated cortical reorganization, in the acute and early sub-acute periods …

J Patel, G Fluet, Q Qiu, M Yarossi, A Merians… - … of neuroengineering and …, 2019 - Springer
Background There is conflict regarding the benefits of greater amounts of intensive upper
limb rehabilitation in the early period post-stroke. This study was conducted to test the …

Transcranial direct current stimulation to the parietal cortex in hemispatial neglect: a feasibility study

M Smit, DJLG Schutter, TCW Nijboer… - Neuropsychologia, 2015 - Elsevier
Objectives Prior research suggests that dampening neural activity of the intact, presumably
overactive hemisphere, combined with increasing neural activity in the damaged …

The association between reorganization of bilateral M1 topography and function in response to early intensive hand focused upper limb rehabilitation following stroke …

M Yarossi, J Patel, Q Qiu, S Massood, G Fluet… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) induced motor evoked potentials (MEPs) are an
established proxy of corticospinal excitability. As a binary measure, the presence (MEP+) or …

Robot-assisted training of the kinesthetic sense: enhancing proprioception after stroke

D De Santis, J Zenzeri, M Casadio, L Masia… - Frontiers in human …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Proprioception has a crucial role in promoting or hindering motor learning. In particular, an
intact position sense strongly correlates with the chances of recovery after stroke. A great …

[HTML][HTML] A novel glasses-free virtual reality rehabilitation system on improving upper limb motor function among patients with stroke: a feasibility pilot study

H Xie, H Zhang, H Liang, H Fan, J Zhou… - Medicine in Novel …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Virtual reality (VR) technology is increasingly used in stroke rehabilitation. This
study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of using the glasses-free VR training to improve …

A simple method for EEG guided transcranial electrical stimulation without models

A Cancelli, C Cottone, F Tecchio… - Journal of neural …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. There is longstanding interest in using EEG measurements to inform transcranial
Electrical Stimulation (tES) but adoption is lacking because users need a simple and …

Similarity of hand muscle synergies elicited by transcranial magnetic stimulation and those found during voluntary movement

M Yarossi, DH Brooks… - Journal of …, 2022 - journals.physiology.org
Converging evidence in human and animal models suggests that exogenous stimulation of
the motor cortex (M1) elicits responses in the hand with similar modular structure to that …

Systematic determination of muscle groups and optimal stimulation intensity for simultaneous TMS mapping of multiple muscles in the upper limb

A Yuasa, S Uehara, Y Sawada… - Physiological Reports, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Transcranial magnetic stimulation has been used to assess plastic changes in the cortical
motor representations of targeted muscles. The present study explored the optimal settings …