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.