Circadian Modulation of Mentally Simulated Motor Actions: Implications for the Potential Use of Motor Imagery in Rehabilitation

Gueugneau, Nicolas; Mauvieux, Benoît; Papaxanthis, Charalambos

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“…In quadrupeds, activity of motor cortical neurons is closely related to the pattern necessary for postural maintenance (Beloozerova et al 2003) and the production of anticipatory postural adjustments (Yakovenko and Drew 2009). The presence of an internal model of the motor apparatus has not been proven in these cases, but related experimental and theoretical results in the primate motor cortex concur with this idea (Guigon et al 2007a;Scott 2007;Todorov 2000). The latter element (state estimator) is likely located in the cerebellum , which is consistent with impaired postural control in the case of cerebellar ataxia (Morton and Bastian 2004).…”

Section: Neural Bases Of Posture and Movementsupporting

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Active Control of Bias for the Control of Posture and Movement

Guigon

2010

Journal of Neurophysiology

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Guigon E. Active control of bias for the control of posture and movement. J Neurophysiol 104: 1090 -1102, 2010. First published June 10, 2010 doi:10.1152/jn.00162.2010. Posture and movement are fundamental, intermixed components of motor coordination. Current approaches consider either that 1) movement is an active, anticipatory process and posture is a passive feedback process or 2) movement and posture result from a common passive process. In both cases, the presence of a passive component renders control scarcely robust and stable in the face of transmission delays and low feedback gains. Here we show in a model that posture and movement could result from the same active process: an optimal feedback control that drives the body from its estimated state to its goal in a given (planning) time by acting through muscles on the insertion position (bias) of compliant linkages (tendons). Computer simulations show that iteration of this process in the presence of noise indifferently produces realistic postural sway, fast goal-directed movements, and natural transitions between posture and movement.

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“…A failure to observe these effects would be significant and would invalidate the model. A related idea would be to exploit circadian variations in movement duration (Gueugneau et al 2009) and to show that they are accompanied by corresponding variations in the characteristics of postural sway.…”

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Active Control of Bias for the Control of Posture and Movement

Guigon

2010

Journal of Neurophysiology

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“…[5][6][7] Lastly, when scheduling patients for assessing motor imagery, care should be taken to keep track of the time of day because, contrary to real walking, the duration of the imagination of walking is influenced by the time of day. 56 The KVIQ is a motor imagery questionnaire developed for people with physical disabilities that assesses the vividness of motor imagery from a first-person perspective 31 and uses a Mental Practice for Relearning Locomotor Skills 5-point scale to rate the clarity of the image (visual subscale) and the intensity of the sensations (kinesthetic subscale). It consists of 20 items (10 movements in each subscale) representing gestures with different body parts (head, shoulders, trunk, upper and lower limbs), and all movements are performed from a sitting position.…”

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Mental Practice for Relearning Locomotor Skills

2010

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Over the past 2 decades, much work has been carried out on the use of mental practice through motor imagery for optimizing the retraining of motor function in people with physical disabilities. Although much of the clinical work with mental practice has focused on the retraining of upper-extremity tasks, this article reviews the evidence supporting the potential of motor imagery for retraining gait and tasks involving coordinated lower-limb and body movements. First, motor imagery and mental practice are defined, and evidence from physiological and behavioral studies in healthy individuals supporting the capacity to imagine walking activities through motor imagery is examined. Then the effects of stroke, spinal cord injury, lower-limb amputation, and immobilization on motor imagery ability are discussed. Evidence of brain reorganization in healthy individuals following motor imagery training of dancing and of a foot movement sequence is reviewed, and the effects of mental practice on gait and other tasks involving coordinated lower-limb and body movements in people with stroke and in people with Parkinson disease are examined. Lastly, questions pertaining to clinical assessment of motor imagery ability and training strategies are discussed.

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“…In particular, circadian (∼24 h) rhythms shape numerous features of the human sensorimotor system. At the behavioral level, circadian variations have been observed for cyclical self-paced motor tasks (Moussay et al, 2002(Moussay et al, , 2003 as well as for fine skilled movements, such as handwriting (Gueugneau et al, 2008;Jasper et al, 2009), and counter-flicking target performance (Edwards et al, 2008). Likewise, the maximum voluntary muscular force (Gauthier et al, 2001;Guette et al, 2005;Reinberg et al, 1994) and the anaerobic performance in exercises involving complex movements (Reilly & Down, 1992;Souissi et al, 2004Souissi et al, , 2008) exhibit predictable-in-time variation throughout the waking day.…”

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Time-of-Day Effects on the Internal Simulation of Motor Actions: Psychophysical Evidence From Pointing Movements With the Dominant and Non-Dominant Arm

Gueugneau

Papaxanthis

2010

Chronobiology International

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It is well known that circadian rhythms modulate human physiology and behavior at various levels. However, chronobiological data concerning mental and sensorimotor states of motor actions are still lacking in the literature. In the present study, we examined the effects of time-of-day on two important aspects of the human motor behavior: prediction and laterality. Motor prediction was experimentally investigated by means of imagined movements and laterality by comparing the difference in temporal performance between right and left arm movements. Ten healthy participants had to actually perform or to imagine performing arm-pointing movements between two targets at different hours of the day (i.e., 08:00, 11:00, 14:00, 17:00, 20:00, and 23:00 h). Executed and imagined movements were accomplished with both the right and left arm. We found that both imagined and executed arm pointing movements significantly fluctuated through the day. Furthermore, the accuracy of motor prediction, investigated by the temporal discrepancy between executed and imagined movements, was significantly better in the afternoon (i.e., 14:00, 17:00, and 20:00 h) than morning (08:00 and 11:00 h) and evening (23:00 h). Our results also revealed that laterality was not stable throughout the day. Indeed, the smallest temporal differences between the two arms appeared at 08:00 and 23:00 h, whereas the largest ones occurred at the end of the morning (11:00 h). The daily variation of motor imagery may suggest that internal predictive models are flexible entities that are continuously updated throughout the day. Likewise, the variations in temporal performance between the right and the left arm during the day may indicate a relative independence of the two body sides in terms of circadian rhythms. In general, our findings suggest that cognitive (i.e., mental imagery) and motor (i.e., laterality) states of human behavior are modulated by circadian rhythms.

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Circadian Modulation of Mentally Simulated Motor Actions: Implications for the Potential Use of Motor Imagery in Rehabilitation

Abstract: . Predictive internal models fluctuate in a circadian basis, as do many other physiological parameters. It could be important to take into consideration the time of day in the planning of rehabilitation programs using physical or mental training.

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Active Control of Bias for the Control of Posture and Movement

Active Control of Bias for the Control of Posture and Movement

Mental Practice for Relearning Locomotor Skills

Time-of-Day Effects on the Internal Simulation of Motor Actions: Psychophysical Evidence From Pointing Movements With the Dominant and Non-Dominant Arm

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