Brain Activity during Lower-Limb Movement with Manual Facilitation: An fMRI Study.

ABSTRACT: Brain activity knowledge of healthy subjects is an important reference in the context of motor control and reeducation. While the normal brain behavior for upper-limb motor control has been widely explored, the same is not true for lower-limb control. Also the effects that different stimuli can evoke on movement and respective brain activity are important in the context of motor potentialization and reeducation. For a better understanding of these processes, a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to collect data of 10 healthy subjects performing lower-limb multijoint functional movement under three stimuli: verbal stimulus, manual facilitation, and verbal + manual facilitation. Results showed that, with verbal stimulus, both lower limbs elicit bilateral cortical brain acti

SUBMITTER: de Almeida PM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4333285 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature