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Differences in Cortical Representation and Structural Connectivity of Hands and Feet between Professional Handball Players and Ballet Dancers
المؤلفون المشاركون
Meier, Jessica
Topka, Marlene Sofie
Hänggi, Jürgen
المصدر
العدد
المجلد 2016، العدد 2016 (31 ديسمبر/كانون الأول 2016)، ص ص. 1-17، 17ص.
الناشر
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
تاريخ النشر
2016-05-09
دولة النشر
مصر
عدد الصفحات
17
التخصصات الرئيسية
الملخص EN
It is known that intensive training and expertise are associated with functional and structural neuroadaptations.
Most studies, however, compared experts with nonexperts; hence it is, specifically for sports, unclear whether the neuroplastic adaptations reported are sport-specific or sport-general.
Here we aimed at investigating sport-specific adaptations in professional handball players and ballet dancers by focusing on the primary motor and somatosensory grey matter (GM) representation of hands and feet using voxel-based morphometry as well as on fractional anisotropy (FA) of the corticospinal tract by means of diffusion tensor imaging-based fibre tractography.
As predicted, GM volume was increased in hand areas of handball players, whereas ballet dancers showed increased GM volume in foot areas.
Compared to handball players, ballet dancers showed decreased FA in both fibres connecting the foot and hand areas, but they showed lower FA in fibres connecting the foot compared to their hand areas, whereas handball players showed lower FA in fibres connecting the hand compared to their foot areas.
Our results suggest that structural adaptations are sport-specific and are manifested in brain regions associated with the neural processing of sport-specific skills.
We believe this enriches the plasticity research in general and extends our knowledge of sport expertise in particular.
نمط استشهاد جمعية علماء النفس الأمريكية (APA)
Meier, Jessica& Topka, Marlene Sofie& Hänggi, Jürgen. 2016. Differences in Cortical Representation and Structural Connectivity of Hands and Feet between Professional Handball Players and Ballet Dancers. Neural Plasticity،Vol. 2016, no. 2016, pp.1-17.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1113245
نمط استشهاد الجمعية الأمريكية للغات الحديثة (MLA)
Meier, Jessica…[et al.]. Differences in Cortical Representation and Structural Connectivity of Hands and Feet between Professional Handball Players and Ballet Dancers. Neural Plasticity No. 2016 (2016), pp.1-17.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1113245
نمط استشهاد الجمعية الطبية الأمريكية (AMA)
Meier, Jessica& Topka, Marlene Sofie& Hänggi, Jürgen. Differences in Cortical Representation and Structural Connectivity of Hands and Feet between Professional Handball Players and Ballet Dancers. Neural Plasticity. 2016. Vol. 2016, no. 2016, pp.1-17.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1113245
نوع البيانات
مقالات
لغة النص
الإنجليزية
الملاحظات
Includes bibliographical references
رقم السجل
BIM-1113245
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