Effect of real-time cortical feedback in motor imagery-based mental practice training

'May' is not  even a 'D' grade. It is actually failure. When will stroke leadership instruct researchers into creating stroke protocols from all stroke research? I'm guessing never since we have NO STROKE LEADERSHIP.

Effect of real-time cortical feedback in motor imagery-based mental practice training

NeuroRehabilitation, 2014

Ding-yu Fei

Ou Bai

Dandan Huang

Dandan Huang

Mental practice using motor imagery of limb movement may facilitate motor recovery in persons who have experienced cerebrovascular accident (CVA). However, the lack of a feedback mechanism that can monitor the quality of the motor imagery affects patients' engagement and motivation to participate in the mental practice training program. This study investigates the effect of novel real-time motor imagery-associated cortical activity feedback on motor imagery-based mental practice training. Ten healthy (useless for us)volunteers were randomly assigned into intervention and control groups. Both groups participated in a five-visit motor imagery-based mental practice training program managed over a period of two months. The intervention group received mental practice training with real-time feedback of movement-associated cortical activity-beta band (16-28 Hz) event-related desynchronization (ERD) in electroencephalography (EEG), using a novel custom-made brain-computer interface (BCI) system. The c...

Publication Date: 2014

Publication Name: NeuroRehabilitation