Unisensory and multisensory Self-referential stimulation of the lower limb: An exploratory fMRI study on healthy subjects.

Background: The holistic view of the person is the essence of the physiotherapy. Knowledge of approaches that develop the whole person promotes better patient outcomes. Multisensory Self-referential stimulation, more than a unisensory one, seems to produce a holistic experience of the Self (“Core-Se...

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Publicado en:Physiotherapy Theory & Practice Vol. 34; no. 1; pp. 22 - 41
Autores principales: Vieira, Ana Isabel, Almeida, Patrícia, Canário, Nádia, Castelo-Branco, Miguel, Nunes, Maria Vânia, Castro-Caldas, Alexandre
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Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jan2018
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          Vieira, Ana Isabel
          Almeida, Patrícia
          Canário, Nádia
          Castelo-Branco, Miguel
          Nunes, Maria Vânia
          Castro-Caldas, Alexandre
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      ab: Background: The holistic view of the person is the essence of the physiotherapy. Knowledge of approaches that develop the whole person promotes better patient outcomes. Multisensory Self-referential stimulation, more than a unisensory one, seems to produce a holistic experience of the Self (“Core-Self”).Objectives: (1) To analyze the somatotopic brain activation during unisensory and multisensorial Self-referential stimulus; and (2) to understand if the areas activated by multisensorial Self-referential stimulation are the ones responsible for the “Core-Self.”Methods: An exploratory functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study was performed with 10 healthy subjects, under the stimulation of the lower limbs with three Self-referential stimuli: unisensory auditory-verbal, unisensory tactile-manual, and multisensory, applying the unisensory stimuli simultaneously.Results: Unisensory stimulation elicits bilateral activations of the temporoparietal junction (TPJ), of the primary somatosensory cortex (S1), of the primary motor cortex (BA4), of the premotor cortex (BA6) and of BA44; multisensory stimulation also elicits activity in TPJ, BA4, and BA6, and when compared with unisensory stimuli, activations were found in: (1) Cortical and subcortical midline structures—BA7 (precuneus), BA9 (medial prefrontal cortex), BA30 (posterior cingulated), superior colliculum and posterior cerebellum; and (2) Posterior lateral cortex—TPJ, posterior BA13 (insula), BA19, and BA37. Bilateral TPJ is the one that showed the biggest activation volume.Conclusion: This specific multisensory stimulation produces a brain activation map in regions that are responsible for multisensory Self-processing and may represent the Core-Self. We recommend the use of this specific multisensory stimulation as a physiotherapy intervention strategy that might promote the Self-reorganization.
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