Navigation strategy training using virtual reality in six chronic stroke patients: A novel and explorative approach to the rehabilitation of navigation impairment

Claessen, Michiel H. G.; Ham, Ineke J. M. van der; Jagersma, Elbrich; Visser‐Meily, Johanna M. A.

doi:10.1080/09602011.2015.1045910

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“…This therapy uses a virtual environment that imitates a real-world environment, which is generated though computer software to give patients a simulated experience. The treated-chronic stroke patients show improved motor function, navigation function, and unilateral neglect (Ansuini et al, 2006; Claessen et al, 2016; Glover and Castiello, 2006; Takahashi et al, 2008) with normalized brain activations in the two hemispheres (Takahashi et al, 2008). …”

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Enhancing endogenous capacity to repair a stroke-damaged brain: An evolving field for stroke research

Zhao

Willing

2018

Progress in Neurobiology

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Stroke represents a severe medical condition that causes stroke survivors to suffer from long-term and even lifelong disability. Over the past several decades, a vast majority of stroke research targets neuroprotection in the acute phase, while little work has been done to enhance stroke recovery at the later stage. Through reviewing current understanding of brain plasticity, stroke pathology, and emerging preclinical and clinical restorative approaches, this review aims to provide new insights to advance the research field for stroke recovery. Lifelong brain plasticity offers the long-lasting possibility to repair a stroke-damaged brain. Stroke impairs the structural and functional integrity of entire brain networks; the restorative approaches containing multi-components have great potential to maximize stroke recovery by rebuilding and normalizing the stroke-disrupted entire brain networks and brain functioning. The restorative window for stroke recovery is much longer than previously thought. The optimal time for brain repair appears to be at later stage of stroke rather than the earlier stage. It is expected that these new insights will advance our understanding of stroke recovery and assist in developing the next generation of restorative approaches for enhancing brain repair after stroke.

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Section: Putative Therapies For Enhancing Brain Self-repair and Strokmentioning

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Enhancing endogenous capacity to repair a stroke-damaged brain: An evolving field for stroke research

Zhao

Willing

2018

Progress in Neurobiology

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“…It was found that episodic memory was superior in the active condition. A similar setup using a virtual model of the city of Tübingen was shown to be advantageous in helping stroke patients to recover some wayfinding ability (Claessen et al, 2015).…”

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Enhancing Our Lives with Immersive Virtual Reality

2016

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SUMMARYVirtual reality (VR) started about 50 years ago in a form we would recognize today [stereo head-mounted display (HMD), head tracking, computer graphics generated images] -although the hardware was completely different. In the 1980s and 1990s, VR emerged again based on a different generation of hardware (e.g., CRT displays rather than vector refresh, electromagnetic tracking instead of mechanical). This reached the attention of the public, and VR was hailed by many engineers, scientists, celebrities, and business people as the beginning of a new era, when VR would soon change the world for the better. Then, VR disappeared from public view and was rumored to be "dead. " In the intervening 25 years a huge amount of research has nevertheless been carried out across a vast range of applications -from medicine to business, from psychotherapy to industry, from sports to travel. Scientists, engineers, and people working in industry carried on with their research and applications using and exploring different forms of VR, not knowing that actually the topic had already passed away.The purpose of this article is to survey a range of VR applications where there is some evidence for, or at least debate about, its utility, mainly based on publications in peer-reviewed journals. Of course not every type of application has been covered, nor every scientific paper (about 186,000 papers in Google Scholar): in particular, in this review we have not covered applications in psychological or medical rehabilitation. The objective is that the reader becomes aware of what has been accomplished in VR, where the evidence is weaker or stronger, and what can be done. We start in Section 1 with an outline of what VR is and the major conceptual framework used to understand what happens when people experience it -the concept of "presence. " In Section 2, we review some areas where VR has been used in science -mostly psychology and neuroscience, the area of scientific visualization, and some remarks about its use in education and surgical training. In Section 3, we discuss how VR has been used in sports and exercise. In Section 4, we survey applications in social psychology and related areas -how VR has been used to throw light on some social phenomena, and how it can be used to tackle experimentally areas that cannot be studied experimentally in real life. We conclude with how it has been used in the preservation of and access to cultural heritage. In Section 5, we present the domain of moral behavior, including an example of how it might be used to train professionals such as medical doctors when confronting serious dilemmas with patients. In Section 6, we consider how VR has been and might be used in various aspects of travel, collaboration, and industry. In Section 7, we consider mainly the use of VR in news presentation and also discuss different types of VR. In the concluding Section 8, we briefly consider new ideas that have recently emerged -an impossible task since during the short time we have written this page even newer idea...

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“…13 In addition, training with optokinetic stimulation led to changes in posterior cortical regions. 7,8,10,11 Therefore, we developed RehAtt ®14 with the primary aim to stimulate underlying neglect-related mechanisms within and between attention networks to recover function of attention. 7,8,10,11 Therefore, we developed RehAtt ®14 with the primary aim to stimulate underlying neglect-related mechanisms within and between attention networks to recover function of attention.…”

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“…13 Virtual Reality (VR) makes it possible to interact in a computerconstructed enriched environment that can stimulate multisensory processing. 7,8,10,11 Therefore, we developed RehAtt ®14 with the primary aim to stimulate underlying neglect-related mechanisms within and between attention networks to recover function of attention. [15][16][17] The ventral attention network (VAN) is stimulus-or "bottom-up"-driven and is involved in reorientation, alerting responses and vigilance.…”

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Increase of frontal neuronal activity in chronic neglect after training in virtual reality

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The current pilot study demonstrates that a novel multisensory VR intervention has the potential to benefit patients with chronic neglect in respect of behaviour and brain changes. Specifically, the fMRI results show that strategic processes (top-down control during attentional cuing) were enhanced by the intervention. The findings increase knowledge of the plasticity processes underlying positive rehabilitation effects from RehAtt in chronic neglect.

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Navigation strategy training using virtual reality in six chronic stroke patients: A novel and explorative approach to the rehabilitation of navigation impairment

Cited by 36 publications

References 41 publications

Enhancing endogenous capacity to repair a stroke-damaged brain: An evolving field for stroke research

Enhancing endogenous capacity to repair a stroke-damaged brain: An evolving field for stroke research

Enhancing Our Lives with Immersive Virtual Reality

Increase of frontal neuronal activity in chronic neglect after training in virtual reality

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