Abstract #1697

Neurofeedback Real-Time FMRI for the Regulation of Motor Areas in Chronic Stroke Patients

Jong-Hwan Lee¹, Lee A. Kearse², Richard Hughes³, Yi Tang¹, Lawrence P. Panych¹, Joel Stein³, Ferenc A. Jolesz¹, Randie M. Black-Schaffer³, Seung-Schik Yoo¹

¹Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; ²Anesthesiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; ³Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

We applied the developed fMRI neurofeedback method to chronic stroke patients with unilateral hand motor deficits, with an aim to demonstrate that real-time feedback of an individual's regional brain activation, especially from the motor-related areas that are affected by a stroke, will help the patients to gain a degree of voluntary regulation of the activation from the same areas.