Why the study?
With the increasing diagnosis of movement disorders, evaluating brain activity during motor tasks has gained interest, prompting the evaluation of cortical activation during passive wrist movement using functional near-infrared spectroscopy.
Does passive movement of the wrist activate the brain's motor cortex compared to rest in healthy volunteers?
Population
10 healthy young right-handed volunteers
Comparison
Passive movement of the right wrist vs rest
Authors
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Supports fNIRS for detecting passive motor cortex activation; hypothesis-generating for movement disorder applications.
Does passive movement of the wrist activate the brain's motor cortex compared to rest in healthy volunteers?
fNIRS can successfully detect and differentiate cortical activation patterns in the primary motor cortex during passive wrist movements.
Jalalvandi et al. (2019) studied this question.
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