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Keita Honda
Department Kumamoto Health Science University Division of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Health Science Kumamoto Health Science University , Position Assistant Professor |
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| Research Period | 2014/07/10～2019/03/31 |
| Research Topic | Neurorehabilitation based upon brain plasticity on body representations |
| Research Type | KAKENHI Research |
| Consignor | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science |
| Research Program Type | Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (Research in a proposed research area),Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (Research in a proposed research area) |
| KAKENHI Grant No. | 26120007 |
| Responsibility | Research Supporter |
| Collaborative Researcher | IZUMI shin-ichi,TANAKA naofumi,OOUCHIDA yutaka,MATSUMIYA kazumichi,ABE hiroaki,SEKIGUCHI yusuke,AYAKI masahiko,HAYASHIBE mitsuhiro,SUDO tamami,AIZU naoki,SUZUKI eizaburo,HONDA keita,YAMADA hiroki,MAEKAWA takanori |
| Details | In the rehabilitation to motor impairment after brain damage, it is necessary not only to improve the paretic limb in function but also to reconstruct the neural basis recognizing a paretic limb as an own body part and to send an appropriate motor command according to the environment to the paretic limb.Therefore, using spatial attention directed to the body ("body-specific attention") as an evaluation index, visualizing the body representation in the brain by describing the distribution of the bodily attention around the body. Furthermore, aiming to elucidate the relationship between the bodily attention and motor function, and further bodily consciousness, we conducted some clinical experiments utilizing the body ownership of paretic limb for establishment the new rehabilitation method. |