2018 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Neurorehabilitation based upon brain plasticity on body representations
| Project Area | Understanding brain plasticity on body representations to promote their adaptive functions |
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| Project/Area Number |
26120007
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (Research in a proposed research area)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Review Section |
Complex systems
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| Research Institution | Tohoku University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
稲邑 哲也 国立情報学研究所, 情報学プリンシプル研究系, 准教授 (20361545)
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| Research Collaborator |
TANAKA naofumi
OOUCHIDA yutaka
MATSUMIYA kazumichi
ABE hiroaki
SEKIGUCHI yusuke
AYAKI masahiko
HAYASHIBE mitsuhiro
SUDO tamami
AIZU naoki
SUZUKI eizaburo
HONDA keita
YAMADA hiroki
MAEKAWA takanori
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-07-10 – 2019-03-31
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| Keywords | 幻肢痛 / 脳内身体表現 / リハビリテーション / 身体特異性注意 / 身体保持感 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
In the rehabilitation to motor impairment after brain damage, it is necessary not only to improve the paretic limb in function but also to reconstruct the neural basis recognizing a paretic limb as an own body part and to send an appropriate motor command according to the environment to the paretic limb.
Therefore, using spatial attention directed to the body ("body-specific attention") as an evaluation index, visualizing the body representation in the brain by describing the distribution of the bodily attention around the body. Furthermore, aiming to elucidate the relationship between the bodily attention and motor function, and further bodily consciousness, we conducted some clinical experiments utilizing the body ownership of paretic limb for establishment the new rehabilitation method.
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| Free Research Field |
リハビリテーション医工学
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
超高齢化社会を迎えた我が国では，加齢に伴う運動器の障害や，脳卒中・脳変性疾患による運動麻痺等が急増しており，これらの運動機能障害を克服する効果的なリハビリテーション法の確立が急務となっている．その鍵を握るのは，身体機能の変化に対する脳の適応メカニズムの解明である．本研究では脳内身体表現の神経機構とその長期変容メカニズムを明らかにし，リハビリテーション介入へと応用するために，運動制御と身体認知を統合的に理解し，有効なリハビリテーション法の開発に取り組み，モデルに基づくリハビリテーション治療における回復と治療の原理の解明に貢献する．
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