Brügger Curt
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Completed research project
| Title / Titel | Phantom sensations after deafferentation/deefferentation and their simulation in healthy subjects: visual-sensimotor interactions | ||||||||
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| Summary / Zusammenfassung | Phantom limb sensations are a very intruiging problem in neurology, associated with major repercussions on the life of the patients, espe-cially when associated with phantom limb pain following amputations or spinal cord injury. Recently, the data from the literature are pro-gressing rapidly with the contribution of functional MRI studies, a spe-cial focus on the reorganization of the primary sensory and motor cor-tex have led to a rapid increase in our knowledge in this area. The novelty of this project is the exploration of a new hypothesis, based on premotor-parietal networks activation by the visual observation, in the development of persistence of phantom sensations. The studies in healthy subjects, where phantom sensations are ex-perimentally evoked, will allow for a correlation of the short-term plas-ticity of the human cortex compared to deafferentation/deefferentation situations. The systematic study of referred sensations will also pro-vide a better understanding of the referred sensations that occur in paraplegic patinets. By a structured interview on phantom sensations new and systematic classifications of the phantom sensations will be accesible for further research in the field. |
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| Publications / Publikationen | Alkadhi H, Brugger P, Hotz Boendermaker S, Crelier G, Curt A, Hepp-Reymond M-C, Kollias SS. What disconnection tells about motor imagery: Evidence from paraplegic patients. Cerebral Cortex 2004 (in press) | ||||||||
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SNF (Personen- und Projektförderung) |
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| Duration of Project / Projektdauer | Apr 2002 to Mar 2005 |