Rehabilitation of motor function after stroke: a multiple systematic review focused on techniques to stimulate upper extremity recovery

SM Hatem, G Saussez, M Della Faille, V Prist… - Frontiers in human …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Stroke is one of the leading causes for disability worldwide. Motor function deficits due to
stroke affect the patients' mobility, their limitation in daily life activities, their participation in …

[HTML][HTML] The cerebellum and the Mirror Neuron System: A matter of inhibition? From neurophysiological evidence to neuromodulatory implications. A narrative review

A Antonioni, EM Raho, S Straudi, E Granieri… - Neuroscience & …, 2024 - Elsevier
Mirror neurons show activity during both the execution (AE) and observation of actions (AO).
The Mirror Neuron System (MNS) could be involved during motor imagery (MI) as well …

Cortical mechanisms underlying the organization of goal-directed actions and mirror neuron-based action understanding

G Rizzolatti, L Cattaneo… - Physiological …, 2014 - journals.physiology.org
Our understanding of the functions of motor system evolved remarkably in the last 20 years.
This is the consequence not only of an increase in the amount of data on this system but …

Action observation treatment: a novel tool in neurorehabilitation

G Buccino - … Transactions of the Royal Society B …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
This review focuses on a novel rehabilitation approach known as action observation
treatment (AOT). It is now a well-accepted notion in neurophysiology that the observation of …

Dissociating the roles of the cerebellum and motor cortex during adaptive learning: the motor cortex retains what the cerebellum learns

JM Galea, A Vazquez, N Pasricha… - Cerebral …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Adaptation to a novel visuomotor transformation has revealed important principles regarding
learning and memory. Computational and behavioral studies have suggested that …

Multiple motor learning processes in humans: defining their neurophysiological bases

D Spampinato, P Celnik - The Neuroscientist, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Learning new motor behaviors or adjusting previously learned actions to account for
dynamic changes in our environment requires the operation of multiple distinct motor …

The mirror neuron system

L Cattaneo, G Rizzolatti - Archives of neurology, 2009 - jamanetwork.com
Mirror neurons are a class of neurons, originally discovered in the premotor cortex of
monkeys, that discharge both when individuals perform a given motor act and when they …

Sensorimotor training in virtual reality: a review

SV Adamovich, GG Fluet, E Tunik… - …, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent experimental evidence suggests that rapid advancement of virtualreality (VR)
technologies has great potential for the development of novelstrategies for sensorimotor …

The observation and execution of actions share motor and somatosensory voxels in all tested subjects: single-subject analyses of unsmoothed fMRI data

V Gazzola, C Keysers - Cerebral cortex, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Many neuroimaging studies of the mirror neuron system (MNS) examine if certain voxels in
the brain are shared between action observation and execution (shared voxels, sVx) …

Action observation has a positive impact on rehabilitation of motor deficits after stroke

D Ertelt, S Small, A Solodkin, C Dettmers, A McNamara… - Neuroimage, 2007 - Elsevier
Evidence exists that the observation of actions activates the same cortical motor areas that
are involved in the performance of the observed actions. The neural substrate for this is the …