TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2019//
TI  - Cortical, subcortical and spinal neural correlates of slackline training-induced balance performance improvements
JO  - NeuroImage
A1  - Giboin, Louis-Solal
A1  - Loewe, Kristian
A1  - Hassa, Thomas
A1  - Kramer, Andreas
A1  - Dettmers, Christian
A1  - Spiteri, Stefan
A1  - Gruber, Markus
A1  - Schoenfeld, Mircea Ariel
SP  - 116061
EP  - 116061
VL  - 202
IS  - 
N2  - Humans develop posture and balance control during childhood. Interestingly, adults can also learn to master new complex balance tasks, but the underlying neural mechanisms are not fully understood yet. Here, we combined broad scale brain connectivity fMRI at rest and spinal excitability measurements during movement. Six weeks of slackline training improved the capability to walk on a slackline which was paralleled by functional connectivity changes in brain regions associated with posture and balance control and by task-specific changes of spinal excitability. Importantly, the performance of trainees was not better than control participants in a different, untrained balance task. In conclusion, slackline training induced large-scale neuroplasticity which solely transferred into highly task specific performance improvements.<br><br>Copyright © 2019. Published by Elsevier Inc.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1053-8119
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116061
ID  - ref1
ER  -