BRAIN MAPPING AS A KEY TO RECOVERY FROM
BRAIN INJURY
BM&L-International
received a special report from the Center for Neuro Skills about a study
presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America,
which illustrate as people suffering from traumatic brain injury may be able to
reprogram their brains to improve motor skills and control artificial limbs.
The study lead by
Kristine Mosier, assistant professor of radiology at Indiana University, shows
that using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and a cyberglove
to record brain changes during motor activities, researchers demonstrated that
people can learn to remap, or redirect, motor commands. This is an important
step in stroke recovery and in training strategies for brain-machine
interfaces-conduits between the brain and artificial limbs.