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Cerebellar transcranial direct current stimulation improves adaptive postural control
Adaptive postural control is essential for almost all aspects of every day life. Impaired postural control results in substantial functional limitations in advanced age (Maki and McIlroy, 1996) and in pathological ageing conditions like stroke (Beyaert et al., 2015), Parkinson ’s disease (Schoneburg et al., 2013) or multiple sclerosis (Huisinga et al., 2012). Although rehabilitation and conditioning programs have shown promising results in recovery of postural control, those interventions are typically time and cost intensive and may only yield moderate effects (Howard- Wilsher et al., 2016; Smania et al., 2011; Yitayeh and Teshome, 2016).
Source: Clinical Neurophysiology - October 20, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Peter Poortvliet, Billie Hsieh, Andrew Cresswell, Jacky Au, Marcus Meinzer Source Type: research

P 68 Novel control concepts and motor re-learning strategy in neurorehabilitation – practically-oriented approach
Persons suffering from functional impairment, due to cerebral palsy, stroke, or Parkinson ’s, often have not reached their full potential for recovery which often is a reason for injures and loss of life due to fall. Motor skill learning and retention of motor skills can be enhanced if a patient assumes control over practice conditions, e.g. timing of exercise instructions and feedback . In our study, we follow a novel conceptual framework (Despotova and Kiriazov, 2015) for optimal control learning of goal-directed motion tasks, like reaching, standing up and walking.
Source: Clinical Neurophysiology - September 8, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: D. Despotova, P. Kiriazov Tags: Poster Source Type: research

EP 84. Motor control and learning strategy for efficient neurorehabilitation
Parkinson ’s, stroke, and other neurological diseases may significantly affect the control of voluntary, ballistic-like movements that normally are performed automatically and optimally as regards position accuracy, energy expenditure and movement execution time. The control functions (neural signals to mus cles) are to be re-learnt and re-optimised with respect to these performance indices. In our study, a natural approach for efficient motor learning in goal-directed motion tasks, incl. walking is proposed.
Source: Clinical Neurophysiology - August 5, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Authors: D. Despotova, P. Kiriazov Tags: ePoster Presentations – Free Topics Source Type: research

63. Resting state cortical electroencephalographic rhythms in acute stroke patients
Patients suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson disease with dementia, and diffuse cerebrovascular dementia show different features of cortical sources of resting state electroencephalographic (EEG) rhythms (Babiloni et al., 2004, 2011). Here, we tested the hypothesis that stroke patients are characterized by peculiar abnormalities of these rhythms. Resting state eyes-closed EEG data were recorded in 29 acute stroke, 29 Alzheimer’s disease, 29 mild cognitive impairment patients, and 29 cognitively intact elderly subjects. Stroke patients were age matched with the other groups, they showed a mild cognitive declin...
Source: Clinical Neurophysiology - October 21, 2013 Category: Neuroscience Authors: F. Infarinato, C. Del Percio, R. Lizio, P. Sale, M. Franceschini, V. Lombardi, F. Orzi, P.M. Rossini, C. Babiloni Tags: Society Proceedings Source Type: research