Can mental practice adjunct in the recovery of motor function in the upper limbs after stroke? A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: Studies indicate that mental practice can be an adjuvant rehabilitation, improving motor functions.

Aim: To synthesize the evidence on the intervention with the mental practice for the rehabilitation of the upper limb after stroke in the context of a dependent task.

Methods: The review was registered on the PROSPERO with protocol number: CRD42020166624.

Open monitoring meditation alters the EEG gamma coherence in experts meditators: The expert practice exhibit greater right intra-hemispheric functional coupling.

Aim: This study investigated the differences in frontoparietal EEG gamma coherence between expert meditators (EM) and naïve meditators (NM).

Material And Methods: This is a cross-sectional study with a sample of twenty-one healthy adults divided under two groups (experts meditators vs. naive-meditators), with analyzing the intra-hemispheric coherence of frontoparietal gamma oscillations by electroencephalography during the study steps: EEG resting-state 1, during the open presence meditation practice, and EEG resting-state 2.