Weisstanner, Christian; Saxer, Stefanie; Wiest, Roland; Kaelin, Alain; Newman, Christopher J; Steinlin, Maja; Grunt, Sebastian (2017). The neuronal correlates of mirror illusion in children with spastic hemiparesis: a study with functional magnetic resonance imaging. Swiss medical weekly, 147, w14415. EMH Schweizerischer Ärzteverlag 10.4414/smw.2017.14415
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AIM
To investigate the neuronal activation pattern underlying the effects of mirror illusion in children/adolescents with normal motor development and in children/adolescents with hemiparesis and preserved contralateral corticospinal organisation.
METHOD
The type of cortical reorganisation was classified according to results of transcranial magnetic stimulation. Only subjects with congenital lesions and physiological contralateral cortical reorganisation were included. Functional magnetic resonance imaging was performed to investigate neuronal activation patterns with and without a mirror box. Each test consisted of a unimanual and a bimanual motor task.
RESULTS
Seven children/adolescents with congenital hemiparesis (10-20 years old, three boys and four girls) and seven healthy subjects (8-17 years old, four boys and three girls) participated in this study. In the bimanual experiment, children with hemiparesis showed a significant effect of the mirror illusion (p<0.001 at voxel level, family-wise error corrected at cluster level) in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and anterior cingulate cortex of the affected and unaffected hemispheres, respectively. No significant effects of the mirror illusion were observed in unimanual experiments and in healthy participants.
INTERPRETATION
Mirror illusion in children/adolescents with hemiparesis leads to activation of brain areas involved in visual conflict detection and cognitive control to resolve this conflict. This effect is observed only in bimanual training. We consider that for mirror therapy in children and adolescents with hemiparesis a bimanual approach is more suitable than a unimanual approach.
Item Type: |
Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Gynaecology, Paediatrics and Endocrinology (DFKE) > Clinic of Paediatric Medicine 04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Head Organs and Neurology (DKNS) > Clinic of Neurology 04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Radiology, Neuroradiology and Nuclear Medicine (DRNN) > Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology |
UniBE Contributor: |
Weisstanner, Christian, Wiest, Roland Gerhard Rudi, Kaelin, Alain, Steinlin, Maja, Grunt, Sebastian |
Subjects: |
600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health |
ISSN: |
1424-7860 |
Publisher: |
EMH Schweizerischer Ärzteverlag |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Anette van Dorland |
Date Deposited: |
28 Jul 2017 10:58 |
Last Modified: |
02 Mar 2023 23:29 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.4414/smw.2017.14415 |
PubMed ID: |
28322427 |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.99010 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/99010 |
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