| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,160,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥960,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥2,340,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥540,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
We found that a rehabilitative intervention by visual feedback with kinesthetic illusion can produce human motor plasticity in the primary motor cortex (M1). Regarding the visual input, it revealed the importance of kinesthetic illusion during this intervention since behavioral improvement occurred only after visual input with kinesthetic illusion, and a significant correlation existed between the performance gain and the degree of illusion. Also, these underlying mechanisms work for stroke patients as well as healthy subjects. A series of these studies suggested that kinesthetic illusion is an essential component of the motor learning and M1 plasticity induced by new rehabilitative approach using visual feedback. The input of visual feedback with kinesthetic illusion might be a promising approach for improving motor function in patients such as strokes.
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