Functional and Structural Properties of Interhemispheric Interaction between Bilateral Precentral Hand Motor Regions in a Top Wheelchair Racing Paralympian.

ABSTRACT: Long-term motor training can cause functional and structural changes in the human brain. Assessing how the training of specific movements affects specific parts of the neural circuitry is essential to understand better the underlying mechanisms of motor training-induced plasticity in the human brain. We report a single-case neuroimaging study that investigated functional and structural properties in a professional athlete of wheelchair racing. As wheelchair racing requires bilateral synchronization of upper limb movements, we hypothesized that functional and structural properties of interhemispheric interactions in the central motor system might differ between the professional athlete and controls. Functional and diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI and dMRI) data were obtained from

SUBMITTER: Morita T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10216139 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature