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Article type: Research Article
Authors: Bianco, Giovanni | Feurra, Matteo | Fadiga, Luciano | Rossi, Alessandro | Rossi, Simone
Affiliations: Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Sezione Neurologia and Neurofisiologia Clinica, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Senese, Siena, Italy | Sezione di Fisiologia Umana, Università di Ferrara and RBCS Department, The Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, Italy
Note: [] Corresponding author: Simone Rossi, MD, PhD, Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Sezione Neurologia and Neurofisiologia Clinica, Brain Stimulation and Evoked Potentials Lab. Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Senese, Policlinico Le Scotte, Viale Bracci I-53100, Siena, Italy. Tel.: +39 0577 233321; Fax: +39 0577 270260; E-mail: [email protected]
Abstract: Purpose: To investigate whether repeated sessions of motor imagery and action observation modulate corticospinal excitability (CE) over time, whether these processes are susceptible of any training effect and if such effect might be different for the dominant and non dominant hemisphere. Methods: 11 subjects underwent three sessions, spaced 5–7 days, of single-pulse Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) of right and left primary motor cortex. Subjects were asked to imagine or observe pinch-grip actions with either hand. Motor evoked potentials (MEPs) were recorded bilaterally from the First Dorsal Interosseus muscle (FDI), acting as main agonist during precision grip. Results: Motor imagery consistently enhanced CE with respect to action observation, regardless of hemispheric lateralization and of separate testing sessions. However, motor imagery increased CE only when measured over the non-dominant hemisphere, during the third session with respect to the first one. The increase of CE induced by action observation in the first session was not further modified throughout the remaining two sessions, in either hemisphere. Conclusions: Results suggest that motor imagery is sustained by a cortical network susceptible to training effects only for the non-dominant hemisphere. Such an effect was lacking for action observation, likely because of the innateness of these mechanisms. Results might have implications for rehabilitative purposes.
Keywords: Transcranial magnetic stimulation, learning, motor imagery, actions observation, mirror neurons
DOI: 10.3233/RNN-2012-120241
Journal: Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience, vol. 30, no. 6, pp. 481-489, 2012
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