Mapping brain structure and function in professional fencers: A model to study training effects on central nervous system plasticity.

ABSTRACT: Brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies have shown different patterns of structural and functional reorganization in high-level athletes compared with controls, but little is known about their relationship with interlimb coordination mechanisms. To this aim, we investigated brain structural and functional differences in high-level fencers compared with nonathlete controls and the MRI substrates of interlimb coordination in elite athletes. Fourteen right-handed male fencers (median age = 22.3 years) and 15 right-handed age- and sex-matched healthy subjects (median age = 22.4 years) underwent structural and functional MRI acquisition during the execution of cyclic bimanual-movements as well as during in-phase and antiphase hand/foot-movements of the dominant-right limbs. No between-gr

SUBMITTER: Cordani C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9248301 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature