Hotz Boendermaker
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Completed research project
| Title / Titel | Foot movement representation in spinal cord injured patients: The clinical application of the acquired data in neurological rehabilitation | ||||||||
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| Summary / Zusammenfassung | The learning of a motor sequence, using a visuo-motor foot tracking task, revealed improvements in motor skills as well as changes in brain activation patterns in the motor network. The results suggest that this paradigm provides a means to study neural control of precision leg movement and learning under visual and/or proprioceptive control. This paradigm may be an appropriate tool to assess (loco)motor learning in patients with neurological disorders. In this application I propose two sets of experiments, one related to complete our knowledge on motor learning with the lower extremity especially the role of feedback in a visuo-motor tracking task, the other investigating the clinical application of our acquired data in incomplete spinal cord injured patients. The results will increase our knowledge on feedback representations in visuo-motor tracking tasks and provide latest strategies to improve lower limb function in ambulatory function. |
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| Keywords / Suchbegriffe | spinal cord injury, fMRI, training | ||||||||
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| Funding source(s) / Unterstützt durch |
SNF (Personen- und Projektförderung) |
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| Duration of Project / Projektdauer | Jan 2009 to Apr 2010 |