Development study of training and evaluation for oral rehabilitation

众所周知，舌运动在进食和吞咽过程中起着重要作用，口腔康复的目的往往是恢复舌运动功能。最近的研究还表明，皮质神经可塑性与舌头运动训练有关。因此，我们利用功能性近红外光谱分析技术，对舌体前伸任务中的大脑皮层活动进行研究，为口腔康复训练和评估提供依据。我们的发现表明，视觉引导的舌头运动可能会改善大脑功能。

It is well known that the tongue movement plays an important role in feeding and swallowing, and oral rehabilitation often aims at restoring tongue motor function. Recent studies have also shown cortical neruoplasticity in relation to tongue movement training. Thus, we investigated cortical activity during tongue protrusion task by the functional near-infrared spectroscopy, to propose the training and evaluation for oral rehabilitation. Our findings suggest that the visually guided tongue movement may promise to improve the brain function.