Effect of tDCS on corticomuscular coupling and the brain functional network of stroke patients.
Med Biol Eng Comput
; 61(12): 3303-3317, 2023 Dec.
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ABSTRACT
Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is an emerging brain intervention technique that has gained growing attention in recent years in the rehabilitation area. In this paper, we investigated the efficacy of tDCS in the rehabilitation process of stroke patients, utilizing corticomuscular coupling (CMC) and brain functional network analysis. Specifically, we examined changes in CMC relationships between the treatment and control groups before and after rehabilitation by transfer entropy (TE), and constructed brain functional networks by TE. We further calculated features of the functional networks, including node degree, global efficiency, clustering coefficient, characteristic path length, and small world index. Our results demonstrate that CMC in patients increased significantly after treatment, with greater improvements in the tDCS group, particularly within the beta and gamma bands. In addition, the functional brain network analysis revealed enhanced connectivity between brain regions, improved information processing capacity, and increased transmission efficiency in patients as their condition improved. Notably, treatment with tDCS resulted in more significant improvements than the sham group, with a statistically significant difference observed after rehabilitation treatment (p < 0.05). These findings provide compelling evidence regarding the role of tDCS in the treatment of stroke and highlight the potential of this approach in stroke rehabilitation. The use of tDCS for therapeutic interventions in stroke rehabilitation can significantly improve the coupling of patients' functional brain networks. Also, using Transfer Entropy (TE) as a characteristic of CMC, tDCS was found to significantly enhance patients' TE, i.e. enhanced CMC.
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Asunto principal:
Accidente Cerebrovascular
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Estimulación Transcraneal de Corriente Directa
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Rehabilitación de Accidente Cerebrovascular
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Humans
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Med Biol Eng Comput
Año:
2023
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Article
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China