Estévez, Natalia and Yu, Ningbo and Brügger, Mike and Villiger, Michael and Hepp-Reymond, Marie-Claude and Riener, Robert and Kollias, Spyros (2014) A reliability study on brain activation during active and passive arm movements supported by an MRI-Compatible robot. Brain Topography, 27 (6). pp. 731-746. ISSN 0896-0267
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In neurorehabilitation, longitudinal assessment of arm movement related brain function in patients with motor disability is challenging due to variability in task performance. MRI-compatible robots monitor and control task performance, yielding more reliable evaluation of brain function over time. The main goals of the present study were first to define the brain network activated while performing active and passive elbow movements with an MRI-compatible arm robot (MaRIA) in healthy subjects, and second to test the reproducibility of this activation over time. For the fMRI analysis two models were compared. In model 1 movement onset and duration were included, whereas in model 2 force and range of motion were added to the analysis. Reliability of brain activation was tested with several statistical approaches applied on individual and group activation maps and on summary statistics. The activated network included mainly the primary motor cortex, primary and secondary somatosensory cortex, superior and inferior parietal cortex, medial and lateral premotor regions, and subcortical structures. Reliability analyses revealed robust activation for active movements with both fMRI models and all the statistical methods used. Imposed passive movements also elicited mainly robust brain activation for individual and group activation maps, and reliability was improved by including additional force and range of motion using model 2. These findings demonstrate that the use of robotic devices, such as MaRIA, can be useful to reliably assess arm movement related brain activation in longitudinal studies and may contribute in studies evaluating therapies and brain plasticity following injury in the nervous system.
| Item Type: | Scientific journal article, Newspaper article or Magazine article |
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| Subjects: | Medicine and Dentistry > Clinical medicine Subjects Allied to Medicine > Anatomy, physiology & pathology > Physiology > Clinical physiology Subjects Allied to Medicine > Anatomy, physiology & pathology > Neuroscience Subjects Allied to Medicine > Anatomy, physiology & pathology > Physiotherapy Subjects Allied to Medicine > Medical technology |
| Depositing User: | Michael Villiger |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Nov 2015 06:22 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Aug 2016 06:34 |
| URI: | http://repository.supsi.ch/id/eprint/6837 |
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