The effect of motor imagery with specific implement in expert badminton player

Wang, Z.; Wang, S.; Shi, Fang; Guan, Yanfei; Wu, Yin; Zhang, L.-L.; Cheng, Shikun; Zeng, Yuxuan; Wang, D.-H.; Zhang, J.

doi:10.1016/j.neuroscience.2014.06.004

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“…This is consistent with previous studies in cohorts with other motor expertise, such as musicians (Fauvel et al, 2014), taxi drivers (Maguire et al, 2000) and athletes (Wei et al, 2011; Di et al, 2012; Wang et al, 2013). Interestingly, our previous studies with transcranial magnetic stimulation found increased motor cortical excitability during different motor tasks in athletes (Wang et al, 2014; Dai et al, 2016). It may be inferred that changes (both gray matter volume and functional connectivity) in other motor and cognitive related brain areas alter the cortico-cortical projections to the primary motor cortex and eventually lead to the increased output from the motor cortex in athletes.…”

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Morphological and Functional Differences between Athletes and Novices in Cortical Neuronal Networks

Tan

Wang

et al. 2017

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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The cortical structural and functional differences in athletes and novices were investigated with a cross-sectional paradigm. We measured the gray matter volumes and resting-state functional connectivity in 21 basketball players and 21 novices with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques. It was found that gray matter volume in the left anterior insula (AI), inferior frontal gyrus (IFG), inferior parietal lobule (IPL) and right anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), precuneus is greater in basketball players than that in novices. These five brain regions were selected as the seed regions for testing the resting-state functional connectivity in the second experiment. We found higher functional connectivity in default mode network, salience network and executive control network in basketball players compared to novices. We conclude that the morphology and functional connectivity in cortical neuronal networks in athletes and novices are different.

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Morphological and Functional Differences between Athletes and Novices in Cortical Neuronal Networks

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Wang

et al. 2017

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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“…Thirty-eight young male tennis players volunteered to participate in this study, training regularly in tennis clubs for two hours per day, on average three times per week. To be included in the present research, given the criteria for inclusion of other surveys with racquet sports athletes [14,25], participants should: (a) be athletes practicing tennis for at least two years; (b) systematically training for at least six hours per week; and (c) be registered at the National Tennis Championship. Furthermore, they should be willing to fast throughout the entire month of Ramadan.…”

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Effects of Motor Mental Imagery Training on Tennis Service Performance during the Ramadan Fasting: A Randomized, Controlled Trial

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The objective of the present study is to analyze the effects of motor mental imagery training on tennis service performance among tennis athletes who fast during Ramadan. Participants were 38 young male tennis players, randomly divided into two groups: Imaging Training (IMG, n = 18) and control group (CG, n = 20). The CG has watched videos on the history of the Olympic Games, while IMG has followed a training program in motor imagery. The performance of the tennis service was obtained by the product between accuracy and speed of typing (accuracy × average speed of all shots (km/h)). The effect of group/time interaction (p < 0.01) was identified for all performance indicators (accuracy, running speed and performance (speed × precision)), with improvement only in IMG (p = 0.01). The results showed that motor imagery training could be an effective strategy for mitigating/counteracting the negative effects of Ramadan on the tennis service performance.

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“…Although ME and MI share similar components in the motor pathways (Wang et al, 2014), some studies have shown that the time courses and underlying neural elements for MI and ME may not be identical (Burianová et al, 2013; Avanzino et al, 2015). Some neuroimaging studies in healthy subjects have demonstrated that the primary motor cortex and primary somatosensory cortex may show mild activity during kinesthetic-type MI, however, the activity in these areas is typically much greater during ME than during MI (Hanakawa, Dimyan & Hallett, 2008).…”

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“…Previous studies using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) have reported that both activities enhance the excitation of the human primary motor cortex (Wang et al, 2014; Bisio et al, 2017). Furthermore, many studies have consistently shown that motor cortical excitability is significantly smaller during MI than during ME (Avanzino et al, 2015; Bonassi et al, 2017).…”

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Differences between motor execution and motor imagery of grasping movements in the motor cortical excitatory circuit

Meng

Liu

et al. 2018

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BackgroundBoth motor imagery (MI) and motor execution (ME) can facilitate motor cortical excitability. Although cortical excitability is modulated by intracortical inhibitory and excitatory circuits in the human primary motor cortex, it is not clear which intracortical circuits determine the differences in corticospinal excitability between ME and MI.MethodsWe recruited 10 young healthy subjects aged 18−28 years (mean age: 22.1 ± 3.14 years; five women and five men) for this study. The experiment consisted of two sets of tasks involving grasp actions of the right hand: imagining and executing them. Corticospinal excitability and short-interval intracortical inhibition (SICI) were measured before the interventional protocol using transcranial magnetic stimulation (baseline), as well as at 0, 20, and 40 min (T0, T20, and T40) thereafter.ResultsFacilitation of corticospinal excitability was significantly greater after ME than after MI in the right abductor pollicis brevis (APB) at T0 and T20 (p < 0.01 for T0, and p < 0.05 for T20), but not in the first dorsal interosseous (FDI) muscle. On the other hand, no significant differences in SICI between ME and MI were found in the APB and FDI muscles. The facilitation of corticospinal excitability at T20 after MI correlated with the Movement Imagery Questionnaire (MIQ) scores for kinesthetic items (Rho = −0.646, p = 0.044) but did not correlate with the MIQ scores for visual items (Rho = −0.265, p = 0.458).DiscussionThe present results revealed significant differences between ME and MI on intracortical excitatory circuits of the human motor cortex, suggesting that cortical excitability differences between ME and MI may be attributed to the activation differences of the excitatory circuits in the primary motor cortex.

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The effect of motor imagery with specific implement in expert badminton player

Cited by 37 publications

References 43 publications

Morphological and Functional Differences between Athletes and Novices in Cortical Neuronal Networks

Morphological and Functional Differences between Athletes and Novices in Cortical Neuronal Networks

Effects of Motor Mental Imagery Training on Tennis Service Performance during the Ramadan Fasting: A Randomized, Controlled Trial

Differences between motor execution and motor imagery of grasping movements in the motor cortical excitatory circuit

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