Prefrontal and premotor cortices are involved in adapting walking and running speed on the treadmill: an optical imaging study

Suzuki, Mitsuo; Miyai, Ichiro; Ono, Takeshi; Oda, Ichiro; Konishi, Ikuo; Kochiyama, Takanori; Kubota, Kisou

doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2004.07.002

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“…For analysis of NIRS signals at the time of peak torque, the difference between the peak torque during the task period and the averaged torque during the rest period was used, as analyzed by Miyai et al (2001) and Suzuki et al (2004). The analyzed period per ch was 8 s consisting of a 5-second task period and a 3-second post-task period.…”

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“…Thus, the present study measured muscle force on MVC tasks with visual feedback of exerted force. By measuring regional cerebral blood flow of the PFC during these tasks with near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) by which cerebral functions can be measured with a low degree of physical constraint regardless of exercise pattern and strength (Miyai et al, 2001;Suzuki et al, 2004), this study aimed to clarify whether the PFC is related to the enhancement of voluntary contraction force and the detail active regions in the PFC that correlates with the muscle force enhancement with visual feedback of exerted force. …”

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Cerebral Hemodynamics during Maximal Muscle Contraction with Visual Feedback-A Near-infrared Spectroscopy Study-

Fukuda

Miyazaki

Uchida

2008

Int. J. Sport Health Sci.

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It is well known that visual feedback of exerted force enhances muscle force during maximal voluntary contraction (MVC). Based on the previous reports on the force exertion tasks and the other tasks using the visual feedback paradigm, we hypothesized that the prefrontal cortex (PFC) is related to the enhancement of voluntary contraction force. The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis and to identify the detail active regions in the PFC that correlates with the muscle force enhancement with visual feedback of exerted force, using near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS). The cerebral blood flow of 11 male subjects was measured by NIRS during the MVC tasks with visual feedback of exerted torque (VFB) and without visual feedback (nVFB). As a result, both the elbow flexion torque during MVC and cerebral blood flow of the right PFC significantly increased under the VFB condition ( pϽ Ͻ0.05). In addition, the increased cerebral blood flow of the right PFC was correlated with the torque enhancement (pϽ Ͻ0.05). The present results suggest that the right PFC is related to the increase of torque under the VFB condition. Since the PFC has a significant role in motivation, the enhancement of torque with visual feedback may be associated with such a function.Keywords: maximal voluntary contraction, prefrontal cortex, cerebral blood flow, visual feedback, near-infrared spectroscopy . Since the muscle force exerted during MVC is enhanced by presenting feedback information to subjects, MVC is considered to be greatly affected by cortical activation regions related to process that information.There is a considerable research on cortical activation regions related to force exertion tasks. In addition to known movement-related cortical regions, the primary motor cortex, premotor cortex, and supplementary motor area, the prefrontal cortex (PFC) has been reported to show extensive cortical activity during force exertion tasks. For example, according to previous studies that measured PFC activity during voluntary contraction by using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), the activation has been observed over extensive cortical regions in the PFC on the cerebral hemisphere during 80% MVC and 100% MVC of handgrip task (Dai et al., 2001;Liu et al., 2005). Liu et al. (2005) reported that the PFC during 100% MVC was activated more extensively than any other movement-related cortical regions. Further, PFC is also known to be activated by giving feedback information about task performance to subjects. Kawashima et al. (2000) reported that when subjects received appropriate feedback information and those that did not after line drawing tasks were measured for cerebral activity by positron emission tomography (PET), the latter subjects exhibited activated PFC along with improved accuracy of the line drawing task. Brunia et al. (2000) reported that subjects who were presented feedback information improved accuracy of button press timing, simultaneously PFC was activated compared with control subjects.From the findings of these pre...

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Cerebral Hemodynamics during Maximal Muscle Contraction with Visual Feedback-A Near-infrared Spectroscopy Study-

Fukuda

Miyazaki

Uchida

2008

Int. J. Sport Health Sci.

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“…In the case of humans, these centre upon cerebello-cerebral cortex circuits including those that involve the prefrontal cortex (Slobounov et al, 2006;Suzuki et al, 2004).…”

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“…Moreover, normal human motor stabilization is highly sensitive to the presence of current cognitive tasks-which would not be expected, if stabilization only occurred by low-level automatisms (de Hoon et al, 2003;Ebersbach et al, 1995;Hauer et al, 2003;Lundin-Olsson et al, 1997;VanderVelde et al, 2005;Woollacott and Shumway-Cook, 2002;Yardley et al, 2000). Indeed, where postural erectness is challenged and needs extensive stabilization, as for example on a tread mill or in an unusual virtual reality situation, the prefrontal cortex is activated (Slobounov et al, 2006;Suzuki et al, 2004).…”

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“…The close study of maintaining stance and walking shows that it is stabilized by central control (Morasso and Schieppati, 1999), and involves cerebello-cerebral cortex circuits (Jacobs and Horak, 2007;Maki and McIlroy, 2007). It can include-if balance is particularly challenging-also the involvement of the prefrontal cortex, for example, when people walk on treadmills (Suzuki et al, 2004), or if a person stands in a virtual reality that lacks visual clues as to the floor and the ceiling (Slobounov et al, 2006). People can motor empathize with the postural upright stability in other individuals (Cheng et al, 2005;Slobounov et al, 2000), and this occurs through cortical mirror neurons (Cheng et al, 2005).…”

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Respiratory, postural and spatio-kinetic motor stabilization, internal models, top-down timed motor coordination and expanded cerebello-cerebral circuitry: a review

Skoyles

2008

Nature Precedings

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Human dexterity, bipedality, and song/speech vocalization in Homo are reviewed within a motor evolution perspective in regard to (i) brain expansion in cerebello-cerebral circuitry, (ii) enhanced predictive internal modeling of body kinematics, body kinetics and action organization, (iii) motor mastery due to prolonged practice, (iv) task-determined top-down, and accurately timed feedforward motor adjustment of multiple-body/artifact elements, and (v) reduction in automatic preflex/spinal reflex mechanisms that would otherwise restrict such top-down processes.Dual-task interference and developmental neuroimaging research argues that such internal modeling based motor capabilities are concomitant with the evolution of (vi) enhanced attentional, executive function and other high-level cognitive processes, and that (vii) these provide dexterity, bipedality and vocalization with effector nonspecific neural resources.The possibility is also raised that such neural resources could (viii) underlie human internal model based nonmotor cognitions.

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There is No test–retest reliability of brain activation induced by robotic passive hand movement: A functional NIRS study

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Does the brain activation induced by the robotic passive movement have TRR? Focusing on this simple question, the present paper attempts to provide an answer to it. The importance and background of this question are provided as follows. The brain plasticity, the ability of the brain system to reorganize its structure and function, is the basic mechanism for restoring motor function in stroke patients (Cramer et al., 2011; Murphy & Corbett, 2009; Schaechter, 2004). Recovery of motor function by brain plasticity is made by modulating the brain activation through the manipulation of the external stimuli (Kaplan, 1988).

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Prefrontal and premotor cortices are involved in adapting walking and running speed on the treadmill: an optical imaging study

Cited by 393 publications

References 43 publications

Cerebral Hemodynamics during Maximal Muscle Contraction with Visual Feedback-A Near-infrared Spectroscopy Study-

Cerebral Hemodynamics during Maximal Muscle Contraction with Visual Feedback-A Near-infrared Spectroscopy Study-

Respiratory, postural and spatio-kinetic motor stabilization, internal models, top-down timed motor coordination and expanded cerebello-cerebral circuitry: a review

There is No test–retest reliability of brain activation induced by robotic passive hand movement: A functional NIRS study

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