Patient Preparation and Paradigm Design in fMRI

Evidence of mirror therapy for recruitment of ipsilateral motor pathways in stroke recovery: A resting fMRI study

“…Moreover, the instantaneous task-induced brain changes are task specific and dependent on consistent patient effort, movement strategy and performance during the task. Diverse activation paradigms may prevent adequate comparison between results, and the results may be confounded by different degree of impairment, recovery and movement effort as well [ 17 , 18 ]. These limitations hindered motor task-based neuroimaging studies from fully uncovering the mechanisms of MT.…”