Cortical Response and Functional Connectivity in Patients With Subacute Stroke During Dual Task: An fNIRS Study.

To investigate neural plasticity changes in patients with subacute stroke during single motor task and dual-task execution. Case-control study. Rehabilitation department in a single hospital. Twenty patients with subacute stroke (mean age, 63.8±10.4y; Mini-Mental State Examination score >20) and 20...

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Publicado en:Archives of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Vol. 107; no. 8; pp. 2045 - 2056
Autores principales: Liu, Wu, Huo, Congcong, Zhang, Simin, Zhang, Xuemin, Shao, Guangjian, Chen, Tiandi, Liu, Jizhong, Li, Zengyong
Formato: research Journal Article
Publicado: W B Saunders Aug2026
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          Liu, Wu
          Huo, Congcong
          Zhang, Simin
          Zhang, Xuemin
          Shao, Guangjian
          Chen, Tiandi
          Liu, Jizhong
          Li, Zengyong
        affil: School of Advanced Manufacturing, NanChang University, NanChang
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          Cerebral Cortex Physiology
          Stroke Rehabilitation
          Task Performance and Analysis Evaluation
          Functional Connectivity Evaluation
          Spectroscopy, Near-Infrared Methods
          Stroke Patients
          Neuronal Plasticity
          Human
          Descriptive Statistics
          Case Control Studies
          Psychological Tests
          Convenience Sample
          Hemodynamics
          Motor Skills
          Sensory Motor Integration
          Cognition
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      ab: To investigate neural plasticity changes in patients with subacute stroke during single motor task and dual-task execution. Case-control study. Rehabilitation department in a single hospital. Twenty patients with subacute stroke (mean age, 63.8±10.4y; Mini-Mental State Examination score >20) and 20 age- and sex-matched healthy controls (mean age, 60.95±9.5y) recruited via convenience sampling. Not applicable. A functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) system was used to evaluate hemodynamic responses in prefrontal, motor, and occipital regions during single motor task and motor-cognitive dual-task conditions, and functional connectivity (FC) was calculated for each task state. Healthy controls showed widespread activation increases during dual-task versus single motor task (P <.05), whereas patients with stroke exhibited enhanced activation only in ipsilesional prefrontal cortex (P =.041) and contralesional supplementary motor area (P =.045). Controls demonstrated significantly higher sensorimotor activation than patients with stroke during dual-task (P =.001). FC analysis revealed increased prefrontal-premotor connectivity in controls (P =.027), whereas patients with stroke showed enhanced bilateral prefrontal (P =.032), premotor (P =.034), and occipital (P =.043) connectivity. In patients with stroke, premotor area activation is negatively correlated with pace (ρ=−0.53, P =.025), heel-strike angle (ρ=−0.73, P =.029), and swing phase (ρ=−0.56, P =.015), but positively with support phase (ρ=0.56, P =.015). This study confirms that motor-cognitive dual task paradigms effectively induce activation in the ipsilesional cortex of patients with stroke while enhancing interhemispheric FC, demonstrating significant neuromodulatory effects of dual-task training in stroke rehabilitation; simultaneously, it validates the feasibility of utilizing fNIRS combined with motor paradigms for real-time assessment of neuroplasticity changes.
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