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Decreasing the surgical errors by neurostimulation of primary motor cortex and the associated brain activation via neuroimaging
Gao, Yuanyuan Cavuoto, Lora Dutta, Anirban Kruger, Uwe Yan, Pingkun Nemani, Arun Norfleet, Jack E. Makled, Basiel A. Silvestri, Jessica Schwaitzberg, Steven
Gao, Yuanyuan
Cavuoto, Lora
Dutta, Anirban
Kruger, Uwe
Yan, Pingkun
Nemani, Arun
Norfleet, Jack E.
Makled, Basiel A.
Silvestri, Jessica
Schwaitzberg, Steven
Authors
Gao, Yuanyuan
Cavuoto, Lora
Dutta, Anirban
Kruger, Uwe
Yan, Pingkun
Nemani, Arun
Norfleet, Jack E.
Makled, Basiel A.
Silvestri, Jessica
Schwaitzberg, Steven
Intes, Xavier R.
De, Suvranu
Cavuoto, Lora
Dutta, Anirban
Kruger, Uwe
Yan, Pingkun
Nemani, Arun
Norfleet, Jack E.
Makled, Basiel A.
Silvestri, Jessica
Schwaitzberg, Steven
Intes, Xavier R.
De, Suvranu
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2021-03-21
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Motor learning,Neurostimulation,Neuroimaging,Functional near-infrared spectroscopy,Surgical performance
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Gao, Y., Cavuoto, L., Dutta, A., Kruger, U., Yan, P., Nemani, A., Norfleet, J. E., Makled, B. A., Silvestri, J., Schwaitzberg, S., Intes, X., & De, S. (2021). Decreasing the surgical errors by neurostimulation of primary motor cortex and the associated brain activation via neuroimaging. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 15:651192. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2021.651192
Abstract
Acquisition of fine motor skills is a time-consuming process as it is based on learning via frequent repetitions. Transcranial electrical stimulation (tES) is a promising means of enhancing simple motor skill development via neuromodulatory mechanisms. Here, we report that non-invasive neurostimulation facilitates the learning of complex fine bimanual motor skills associated with a surgical task. During the training of 12 medical students on the Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery (FLS) pattern cutting task over a period of 12 days, we observed that transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) decreased error level and the variability in performance, compared to the Sham group. Furthermore, by concurrently monitoring the cortical activations of the subjects via functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), our study showed that the cortical activation patterns were significantly different between the tDCS and Sham group, with the activation of primary motor cortex (M1) and prefrontal cortex (PFC) contralateral to the anodal electrode significantly decreased while supplemental motor area (SMA) increased by tDCS. The lowered performance errors were retained after 1-month post-training. This work supports the use of tDCS to enhance performance accuracy in fine bimanual motor tasks.
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This article is part of the Research Topic: Investigating the Mechanism of TMS Using Brain Imaging Methods
Specialty section: This article was submitted to Brain Imaging Methods, a section of the journal Frontiers in Neuroscience.
The article can be found here: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2021.651192
Specialty section: This article was submitted to Brain Imaging Methods, a section of the journal Frontiers in Neuroscience.
The article can be found here: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2021.651192
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Frontiers Media
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Frontiers in Neuroscience