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IEEE Trans Neural Syst Rehabil Eng ; 25(7): 798-810, 2017 07.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28092567

RESUMO

It is well documented that neurological deficits after stroke can disrupt motor control processes that affect the smoothness of reaching movements. The smoothness of hand trajectories during multi-joint reaching depends on shoulder and elbow joint angular velocities and their successive derivatives as well as on the instantaneous arm configuration and its rate of change. Right-handed survivors of unilateral hemiparetic stroke and neurologically-intact control participants held the handle of a two-joint robot and made horizontal planar reaching movements. We decomposed endpoint jerk into components related to shoulder and elbow joint angular velocity, acceleration, and jerk. We observed an abnormal decomposition pattern in the most severely impaired stroke survivors consistent with deficits of inter-joint coordination. We then used numerical simulations of reaching movements to test whether the specific pattern of inter-joint coordination deficits observed experimentally could be explained by either a general increase in motor noise related to weakness or by an impaired ability to compensate for multi-joint interaction torque. Simulation results suggest that observed deficits in movement smoothness after stroke more likely reflect an impaired ability to compensate for multi-joint interaction torques rather than the mere presence of elevated motor noise.


Assuntos
Braço/fisiopatologia , Articulações/fisiopatologia , Modelos Neurológicos , Movimento , Paresia/fisiopatologia , Desempenho Psicomotor , Acidente Vascular Cerebral/fisiopatologia , Adulto , Idoso , Simulação por Computador , Humanos , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Contração Muscular , Músculo Esquelético/fisiopatologia , Paresia/etiologia , Equilíbrio Postural , Acidente Vascular Cerebral/complicações , Torque
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eNeuro ; 4(6)2017.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29379875

RESUMO

To accurately estimate the state of the body, the nervous system needs to account for delays between signals from different sensory modalities. To investigate how such delays may be represented in the sensorimotor system, we asked human participants to play a virtual pong game in which the movement of the virtual paddle was delayed with respect to their hand movement. We tested the representation of this new mapping between the hand and the delayed paddle by examining transfer of adaptation to blind reaching and blind tracking tasks. These blind tasks enabled to capture the representation in feedforward mechanisms of movement control. A Time Representation of the delay is an estimation of the actual time lag between hand and paddle movements. A State Representation is a representation of delay using current state variables: the distance between the paddle and the ball originating from the delay may be considered as a spatial shift; the low sensitivity in the response of the paddle may be interpreted as a minifying gain; and the lag may be attributed to a mechanical resistance that influences paddle's movement. We found that the effects of prolonged exposure to the delayed feedback transferred to blind reaching and tracking tasks and caused participants to exhibit hypermetric movements. These results, together with simulations of our representation models, suggest that delay is not represented based on time, but rather as a spatial gain change in visuomotor mapping.


Assuntos
Mãos , Destreza Motora , Transferência de Experiência , Jogos de Vídeo , Adaptação Fisiológica , Adulto , Simulação por Computador , Retroalimentação , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Fatores de Tempo , Percepção Visual , Adulto Jovem
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Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25571204

RESUMO

Neurological deficits after cerebrovascular accidents very frequently disrupt the kinematics of voluntary movements with the consequent impact in daily life activities. Robotic methodologies enable the quantitative characterization of specific control deficits needed to understand the basis of functional impairments and to design effective rehabilitation therapies. In a group of right handed chronic stroke survivors (SS) with right side hemiparesis, intact proprioception, and differing levels of motor impairment, we used a robotic manipulandum to study right arm function during discrete point-to-point reaching movements and reciprocal out-and-back movements to visual targets. We compared these movements with those of neurologically intact individuals (NI). We analyzed the presence of secondary submovements in the initial (i.e. outward) trajectory portion of the two tasks and found that the SS with severe impairment (FM < 30) presented arm submovements that differed notably not only from NI but also from those of SS with moderate arm impairment (FM 30-50). Therefore the results of this pilot study suggest that in SS arm kinematics vary significantly across differing levels of motor impairment. Our results support the development of rehabilitation therapies carefully tailored to each individual stroke survivor.


Assuntos
Movimento , Acidente Vascular Cerebral/fisiopatologia , Adulto , Idoso , Braço/fisiopatologia , Fenômenos Biomecânicos , Estudos de Casos e Controles , Feminino , Mãos/fisiopatologia , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Paresia/fisiopatologia , Projetos Piloto , Propriocepção , Robótica/métodos , Reabilitação do Acidente Vascular Cerebral
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Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22256252

RESUMO

Stroke often results in both motor and sensory deficits, which may interact in the manifested functional impairment. Proprioception is known to play important roles in the planning and control of limb posture and movement; however, the impact of proprioceptive deficits on motor function has been difficult to elucidate due in part to the qualitative nature of available clinical tests. We present a quantitative and standardized method for evaluating proprioception in tasks directly relevant to those used to assess motor function. Using a robotic manipulandum that exerted controlled displacements of the hand, stroke participants were evaluated, and compared with a control group, in their ability to detect such displacements in a 2-alternative, forced-choice paradigm. A psychometric function parameterized the decision process underlying the detection of the hand displacements. The shape of this function was determined by a signal detection threshold and by the variability of the response about this threshold. Our automatic procedure differentiates between participants with and without proprioceptive deficits and quantifies functional proprioceptive sensation on a magnitude scale that is meaningful for ongoing studies of degraded motor function in comparable horizontal movements.


Assuntos
Braço/fisiopatologia , Propriocepção/fisiologia , Robótica/métodos , Robótica/normas , Acidente Vascular Cerebral/fisiopatologia , Adulto , Idoso , Estudos de Casos e Controles , Discriminação Psicológica/fisiologia , Mãos/fisiopatologia , Humanos , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Percepção de Movimento/fisiologia , Padrões de Referência , Análise de Regressão , Incerteza
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Cereb Cortex ; 15(12): 1982-91, 2005 Dec.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-15758195

RESUMO

The ability to anticipate predictable stimuli allows faster responses. The predictive saccade (PRED) task has been shown to quickly induce such anticipatory behavior in humans. In a PRED task subjects track a visual target jumping back and forth between fixed positions at a fixed time interval. During this task, saccade latencies drop from approximately 200 ms to <80 ms as subjects anticipate target appearance. This change in saccade latency indicates that subjects' behavior shifts from being sensory driven to being memory driven. We conducted functional magnetic resonance imaging studies with 10 healthy adults performing the PRED task using a standard block design. We compared the PRED task with a visually guided saccade (VGS) task using unpredictable targets matched for number, direction and amplitude of required saccades. Our results show greater activation during the PRED task in the prefrontal, pre-supplementary motor and anterior cingulate cortices, hippocampus, mediodorsal thalamus, striatum and cerebellum. The VGS task elicited greater activation in the cortical eye fields and occipital cortex. These results demonstrate the important dissociation between sensory and predictive neural control of similar saccadic eye movements. Anticipatory behavior induced by the PRED task required less sensory-related processing activity and was subserved by a distributed cortico-subcortical memory system including prefronto-striatal circuitry.


Assuntos
Lobo Frontal/fisiologia , Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética , Memória/fisiologia , Lobo Parietal/fisiologia , Movimentos Sacádicos/fisiologia , Percepção Visual/fisiologia , Adulto , Feminino , Hipocampo/fisiologia , Humanos , Masculino , Córtex Motor/fisiologia , Estimulação Luminosa , Desempenho Psicomotor/fisiologia , Tálamo/fisiologia
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