Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6040347 | NeuroImage | 2007 | 10 Pages |
Abstract
Additionally, the effects of action observation therapy on the reorganization of the motor system were investigated by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), using an independent sensorimotor task consisting of object manipulation. The direct comparison of neural activations between experimental and control groups after training with those elicited by the same task before training yielded a significant rise in activity in the bilateral ventral premotor cortex, bilateral superior temporal gyrus, the supplementary motor area (SMA) and the contralateral supramarginal gyrus. Our results provide pieces of evidence that action observation has a positive additional impact on recovery of motor functions after stroke by reactivation of motor areas, which contain the action observation/action execution matching system.
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Authors
Denis Ertelt, Steven Small, Ana Solodkin, Christian Dettmers, Adam McNamara, Ferdinand Binkofski, Giovanni Buccino,