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Spotlight / New Research
Action Imagery and Observation in Neurorehabilitation for Parkinson's Disease (ACTION-PD): Development of a User-Informed Home Training Intervention to Improve Functional Hand Movements
This study demonstrated that a user-informed, home-based AO+MI programme delivered via a tablet app was feasible, well accepted by people with Parkinson's disease, and showed encouraging signs that home-based mental practice interventions can be successfully implemented.
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EEG and behavioural correlates of different forms of motor imagery during action observation in rhythmical actions
This study showed that different forms of combined action observation and motor imagery (AO+MI) produce distinct behavioural and neurophysiological effects, providing some of the first neurophysiological evidence that different dual action simulation states can be distinguished experimentally.
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Structural and Functional Features Characterising the Brains of Individuals with Higher Controllability of Motor Imagery
People with better motor imagery ability have stronger structural and functional connections within a frontoparietal brain network, suggesting that successful motor imagery depends more on efficient communication between brain regions than on activity within any single region.
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