Acquired control of ventral premotor cortex activity by feedback training: An exploratory real-time fMRI and TMS study

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 256-265

  Sitaram, Ranganatha ^a   Veit, Ralf ^a   Stevens, Birte ^b   Caria, Andrea ^a   Gerloff, Christian ^b   Birbaumer, Niels ^a,c   Hummel, Friedhelm ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^c Istitudo di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico Multimedia Scientific and Technology Pole   (Italy)

Author keywords

BCI; premotor cortex; real time fMRI; stroke; TMS; visuomotor tracking task

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD OXYGENATION; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; INHIBITION KINETICS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROFEEDBACK; NEUROIMAGING; PREMOTOR CORTEX; REHABILITATION CARE; SCORING SYSTEM; STROKE; STROKE PATIENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

BIOFEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL INHIBITION; OXYGEN; PARESIS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84857305016     PISSN: 15459683     EISSN: 15526844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1545968311418345     Document Type: Article

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