2005
Exp Brain Res. 2006 Jan;168(1-2):143-51. Epub 2005 Jul 26
Corticospinal facilitation during first and third person imagery
Motor imagery can be defined as the covert rehearsal of movement. Previous research with transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) has demonstrated that motor imagery increases the corticospinal excitability of the primary…
Brain. 2006 Jan;129(Pt 1):47-54. Epub 2005 Sep 8
Selective impairment of hand mental rotation in patients with focal hand dystonia
Mental rotation of body parts determines activation of cortical and subcortical systems involved in motor planning and execution, such as motor and premotor areas and basal ganglia. These structures are…
Exp Brain Res. 2006 Feb;169(2):145-52. Epub 2005 Nov 16
Gravitational influences on reference frames for mapping somatic stimuli in brain-damaged patients
Previous studies have shown that the manipulation of body position in space can modulate the manifestations of visual neglect. Here, we investigated in right brain-damaged patients (RBD) the possible influence…
Behav Brain Res. 2006 Apr 3;168(2):190-6. Epub 2005 Nov 28
Influence of imagined posture and imagery modality on corticospinal excitability
Single pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) was used to test the assumption that kinesthetic imagery of action is more 'motor' than visual imagery of action. We assessed corticospinal excitability during…
J Neurol. 2005 Mar;252(3):307-14. Epub 2005 Feb 23
Repetitive magnetic stimulation: a novel therapeutic approach for myofascial pain syndrome
The aim of this study was to evaluate the short, medium and long-term effects of peripheral repetitive magnetic stimulation (rMS) on myofascial pain compared with transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS).Fifty-three…
Nat Neurosci. 2005 Jul;8(7):955-60
Transcranial magnetic stimulation highlights the sensorimotor side of empathy for pain
Pain is intimately linked with action systems that are involved in observational learning and imitation. Motor responses to one's own pain allow freezing or escape reactions and ultimately survival. Here…
Neuroimage. 2005 Jul 1;26(3):755-63. Epub 2005 Mar 31
Motor facilitation of the human cortico-spinal system during observation of bio-mechanically impossible movements
Neurophysiological and neuroimaging studies in the human and the monkey brain indicate that links between action observation and execution are much tighter than previously believed. Indeed, the mere observation of…
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res. 2005 Aug;24(3):513-25. Epub 2005 Apr 7
Hemispheric metacontrol and cerebral dominance in healthy individuals investigated by means of chimeric faces
Cerebral dominance and hemispheric metacontrol were investigated by testing the ability of healthy participants to match chimeric, entire, or half faces presented tachistoscopically. The two hemi-faces compounding chimeric or entire…
Cereb Cortex. 2005 Nov;15(11):1761-7. Epub 2005 Feb 23
Neural systems underlying observation of humanly impossible movements: an fMRI study
Previous studies have indicated that largely overlapping parts of a complex, mainly fronto-parietal, neural network are activated during both observation and execution of an action. If these two processes are…
