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1. Sensorimotor plasticity after music-supported therapy in chronic stroke patients revealed by transcranial magnetic stimulation.

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Julià L Amengual, Nuria Rojo, Misericordia Veciana de Las Heras, Josep Marco-Pallarés, Jennifer Grau-Sánchez, Sabine Schneider, Lucía Vaquero, Montserrat Juncadella, Jordi Montero, Bahram Mohammadi, Francisco Rubio, Nohora Rueda, Esther Duarte, Carles Grau, Eckart Altenmüller, Thomas F Münte, and Antoni Rodríguez-Fornells

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Medicine, Science
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BackgroundSeveral recently developed therapies targeting motor disabilities in stroke sufferers have shown to be more effective than standard neurorehabilitation approaches. In this context, several basic studies demonstrated that music training produces rapid neuroplastic changes in motor-related brain areas. Music-supported therapy has been recently developed as a new motor rehabilitation intervention.Methods and resultsIn order to explore the plasticity effects of music-supported therapy, this therapeutic intervention was applied to twenty chronic stroke patients. Before and after the music-supported therapy, transcranial magnetic stimulation was applied for the assessment of excitability changes in the motor cortex and a 3D movement analyzer was used for the assessment of motor performance parameters such as velocity, acceleration and smoothness in a set of diadochokinetic movement tasks. Our results suggest that the music-supported therapy produces changes in cortical plasticity leading the improvement of the subjects' motor performance.ConclusionOur findings represent the first evidence of the neurophysiological changes induced by this therapy in chronic stroke patients, and their link with the amelioration of motor performance. Further studies are needed to confirm our observations.

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2013
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2. Sensorimotor Plasticity after Music-Supported Therapy in Chronic Stroke Patients Revealed by Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

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Carles Grau, Nuria Rojo, Esther Duarte, Eckart Altenmüller, Lucía Vaquero, Montserrat Juncadella, Jordi Montero, Josep Marco-Pallarés, Julià L. Amengual, Misericordia Veciana de las Heras, Bahram Mohammadi, Jennifer Grau-Sánchez, Francisco Rubio, Thomas F. Münte, Antoni Rodríguez-Fornells, Sabine Schneider, Nohora Rueda, and Universitat de Barcelona

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Anatomy and Physiology, medicine.medical_treatment, Neurofisiologia, Cerebrovascular disease, Stroke, Multidisciplinary, Neuronal Plasticity, Music psychology, Motor Cortex, Middle Aged, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Biomechanical Phenomena, medicine.anatomical_structure, Neurology, Medicine, Motor cortex, Research Article, Malalties cerebrovasculars, Adult, medicine.medical_specialty, Music therapy, Science, Movement, Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurophysiology, Context (language use), Neuroimaging, Motor Activity, Neurological System, Fingers, Motor Reactions, Physical medicine and rehabilitation, Neurorehabilitation and Trauma, Neuroplasticity, medicine, Humans, Music Therapy, Biology, Neurorehabilitation, Aged, Demography, Motor Systems, Analysis of Variance, business.industry, medicine.disease, Hand, Transcranial magnetic stimulation, Musicoteràpia, Case-Control Studies, Chronic Disease, Physical therapy, business, Neuroscience
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BackgroundSeveral recently developed therapies targeting motor disabilities in stroke sufferers have shown to be more effective than standard neurorehabilitation approaches. In this context, several basic studies demonstrated that music training produces rapid neuroplastic changes in motor-related brain areas. Music-supported therapy has been recently developed as a new motor rehabilitation intervention.Methods and resultsIn order to explore the plasticity effects of music-supported therapy, this therapeutic intervention was applied to twenty chronic stroke patients. Before and after the music-supported therapy, transcranial magnetic stimulation was applied for the assessment of excitability changes in the motor cortex and a 3D movement analyzer was used for the assessment of motor performance parameters such as velocity, acceleration and smoothness in a set of diadochokinetic movement tasks. Our results suggest that the music-supported therapy produces changes in cortical plasticity leading the improvement of the subjects' motor performance.ConclusionOur findings represent the first evidence of the neurophysiological changes induced by this therapy in chronic stroke patients, and their link with the amelioration of motor performance. Further studies are needed to confirm our observations.

Published
2014

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