Multisensory Stimulation in Stroke Rehabilitation

By B. Johansson. 2012

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The brain has a large capacity for automatic simultaneous processing and integration of sensory information. Combining information from different sensory modalities facilitates our ability to detect, discriminate, and recognize sensory stimuli, and learning is often optimal in a multisensory environment. Currently used multisensory stimulation methods in stroke rehabilitation include motor imagery, action observation, training with a mirror or in a virtual environment, and various kinds of music therapy. Non-invasive brain stimulation has showed promising preliminary results in aphasia and neglect. Patient heterogeneity and the interaction of age, gender, genes, and environment are discussed. Randomized controlled longitudinal trials starting earlier post-stroke are needed. The advance in brain network science and neuroimaging enabling longitudinal studies of structural and functional networks are likely to have an important impact on patient selection for specific interventions in future stroke rehabilitation. It is proposed that we should pay more attention to age, gender, and laterality in clinical studies.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

Multisensory Processes: A Balancing Act across the Lifespan (2016, background): “This spans many types of rehabilitation, including for patients with stroke [65] or sensory loss [66] (see next section) and in adaptation to new prosthetic devices like bionic eyes, cochlear implants, and prosthetic limbs, as these devices become increasingly widespread in modern clinical practice ”
Multisensory context portends object memory. (2014, unknown): “Such notwithstanding, multisensory information does confer substantial learning benefits across the lifespan and in health and disease [8–10].”
The efficacy of single-trial multisensory memories. (2013, background): “…2008) and long-term effects of multisensory interactions more generally (e.g. Meylan and Murray, 2007; Naue et al., 2011; Shams et al., 2011; Wozny and Shams, 2011) is not only opening new lines of basic research, but also strategies for education and clinical rehabilitation (e.g. Johansson, 2012).”
Multisensory integration: flexible use of general operations (2014, unknown): “…interactions more generally (e.g., Meylan and Murray, 2007; Naue et al., 2011; Shams et al., 2011; Wozny and Shams, 2011; Zangenehpour and Zatorre, 2010) is not only opening new lines of basic research but also strategies for education and clinical rehabilitation (e.g., Johansson, 2012).”
Single-trial multisensory memories affect later auditory and visual object discrimination. (2015, unknown): “If true, this would dramatically curtail potential applications of this paradigm to remediation or training situations; a central issue for the development of multisensory rehabilitation strategies across the lifespan (White-Traut et al., 2013; Johansson, 2012).”