2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The effect of visual information of another person's movement to the impairement of relaxing muscle contraction after stroke.
| Project/Area Number |
21700521
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Rehabilitation science/Welfare engineering
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| Research Institution | Tohoku University |
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Principal Investigator |
OOUCHIDA Yutaka Tohoku University, 大学院・医学系研究科, 助教 (80510578)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2009 – 2010
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| Keywords | リハビリテーション医学 / ミラーニューロン / 運動観察学習 / 痙縮 / 脳卒中 / 手指運動 |
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| Research Abstract |
Patients with motor paresis after stroke have often impaired in the ability to release the muscle contraction appropriately. And then this causes the muscles controlling parleyed limb to get co-contracted gradually while the patients move the parlayed limb voluntarily. Imitation learning is one of the effective motor learning strategy where a learner get information that should be learned from observing the movements performed by another person. Here I applied this imitation movement to the impairment in release muscle contraction. Compared with the voluntary movements, the imitation movement had got less co-contracted while the subjects repeated in performing finger extension-flexion movement.
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