Movement and emotion are two fundamental physiological functions that support most activities in everyday life. The impaired function of movement or emotion would significantly damage the quality of life. Numerous studies have demonstrated the interaction between emotion and movement. Specifically, emotion can be reflected and recognized from several body movements, and movements (e.g., dance/movement therapy) can improve the emotion regulation of individuals. A meta-analysis also indicates that patients with Parkinson’s disease, a typical movement disorder, show more deficits in recognizing negative emotions than positive emotions. Movement disorder （such as Parkinsonism, Tremors, Dystonia, and Dyskinesia）refers to a group of pathological changes in neuron conditions, causing abnormally voluntary or involuntary movements. It can be classified into hyperkinetics with excess movements and hypoienetics that exhibit degeneration in movements. Emotional disorders (such as depression, anxiety, and addiction) refer to a series of mental health problems that primarily affect a person’s emotional state, not only leading to frequent and intense negative emotions but physiological damages as well.
There are many therapeutic interventions seeking to cure movement or emotional disorders. In the past few decades, non-invasive neuromodulation techniques, such as BCI (brain-computer interface) neurofeedback, transcranial current stimulation (TCS), and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), have shown optimistic achievements as potential treatments. However, the underlying neural mechanisms of non-invasive neuromodulation have not been fully understood. In addition, the clinical application of non-invasive neuromodulation towards these two kinds of disorders still faces many challenges.
This research topic aims to gather more evidence on revealing the non-invasive neuromodulation efficacy and neural mechanism towards movement or emotional disorders, especially with the use of novel non-invasive neuromodulation techniques. With this topic, we hope to overview the newest findings on non-invasive neuromodulation towards movement or emotional disorders, and provide an opportunity to discuss how to optimize existing neuromodulation techniques and eventually apply them to clinical trials.
This research topic seeks to collect original research, case reports, perspectives, reviews and meta-analysis covering but not limited to the following topics:
- Using techniques (EEG, fMRI, MEG, fNIRS, etc.) to explore the mechanisms of movement or emotional disorders in human subjects, or to discover the novel neural basis of normal movement or emotional functions.
- Examining non-invasive neuromodulation efficacy towards movement or emotional disorders, especially using novel neuromodulation.
- Combining non-invasive neuromodulation with neuroimaging measures, such as EEG, fMRI, MEG, fNIRS, etc., to study the neural mechanisms or effects on movement or emotional disorders.
Movement and emotion are two fundamental physiological functions that support most activities in everyday life. The impaired function of movement or emotion would significantly damage the quality of life. Numerous studies have demonstrated the interaction between emotion and movement. Specifically, emotion can be reflected and recognized from several body movements, and movements (e.g., dance/movement therapy) can improve the emotion regulation of individuals. A meta-analysis also indicates that patients with Parkinson’s disease, a typical movement disorder, show more deficits in recognizing negative emotions than positive emotions. Movement disorder （such as Parkinsonism, Tremors, Dystonia, and Dyskinesia）refers to a group of pathological changes in neuron conditions, causing abnormally voluntary or involuntary movements. It can be classified into hyperkinetics with excess movements and hypoienetics that exhibit degeneration in movements. Emotional disorders (such as depression, anxiety, and addiction) refer to a series of mental health problems that primarily affect a person’s emotional state, not only leading to frequent and intense negative emotions but physiological damages as well.
There are many therapeutic interventions seeking to cure movement or emotional disorders. In the past few decades, non-invasive neuromodulation techniques, such as BCI (brain-computer interface) neurofeedback, transcranial current stimulation (TCS), and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), have shown optimistic achievements as potential treatments. However, the underlying neural mechanisms of non-invasive neuromodulation have not been fully understood. In addition, the clinical application of non-invasive neuromodulation towards these two kinds of disorders still faces many challenges.
This research topic aims to gather more evidence on revealing the non-invasive neuromodulation efficacy and neural mechanism towards movement or emotional disorders, especially with the use of novel non-invasive neuromodulation techniques. With this topic, we hope to overview the newest findings on non-invasive neuromodulation towards movement or emotional disorders, and provide an opportunity to discuss how to optimize existing neuromodulation techniques and eventually apply them to clinical trials.
This research topic seeks to collect original research, case reports, perspectives, reviews and meta-analysis covering but not limited to the following topics:
- Using techniques (EEG, fMRI, MEG, fNIRS, etc.) to explore the mechanisms of movement or emotional disorders in human subjects, or to discover the novel neural basis of normal movement or emotional functions.
- Examining non-invasive neuromodulation efficacy towards movement or emotional disorders, especially using novel neuromodulation.
- Combining non-invasive neuromodulation with neuroimaging measures, such as EEG, fMRI, MEG, fNIRS, etc., to study the neural mechanisms or effects on movement or emotional disorders.