Altered effective connectivity in the emotional network induced by immersive virtual reality rehabilitation for post-stroke depression.

ABSTRACT: Post-stroke depression (PSD) is a serious complication of stroke that significantly restricts rehabilitation. The use of immersive virtual reality for stroke survivors is promising. Herein, we investigated the effects of a novel immersive virtual reality training system on PSD and explored induced effective connectivity alterations in emotional networks using multivariate Granger causality analysis (GCA). Forty-four patients with PSD were equally allocated into an immersive-virtual reality group and a control group. In addition to their usual rehabilitation treatments, the participants in the immersive-virtual reality group participated in an immersive-virtual reality rehabilitation program, while the patients in the control group received 2D virtual reality rehabilitation training. The Ha

SUBMITTER: Wu JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9378829 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature