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- Task-specificity in isolated focal dystonias allows patients to potentially improve symptoms by concentrating on specific tasks.
- Therapeutic brain-computer interfaces can be used to help patients adjust their brain activity during symptomatic tasks to align with their brain activity when they are symptom-free.
- This approach aims to reduce symptoms by promoting changes in brain patterns through active modulation by the patient.
Article Abstract
Task-specificity in isolated focal dystonias is a powerful feature that may successfully be targeted with therapeutic brain-computer interfaces. While performing a symptomatic task, the patient actively modulates momentary brain activity (disorder signature) to match activity during an asymptomatic task (target signature), which is expected to translate into symptom reduction.
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