Brain Advance Access originally published online on December 11, 2008
Brain 2009 132(3):722-733; doi:10.1093/brain/awn333
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Walking flexibility after hemispherectomy: split-belt treadmill adaptation and feedback control
1 The Kennedy Krieger Institute, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA 2 Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA 3 Department of Neurology, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA 4 Department of Physical Therapy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, OH, USA 5 Department of Neuroscience, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Correspondence to: Amy Bastian, Kennedy Krieger Institute, 707 N. Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA E-mail: bastian{at}kennedykrieger.org
Walking flexibility depends on use of feedback or reactive control to respond to unexpected changes in the environment, and the ability to adapt feedforward or predictive control for sustained alterations. Recent work has demonstrated that cerebellar damage impairs feedforward adaptation, but not feedback control, during human split-belt treadmill walking. In contrast, focal cerebral damage from stroke did not impair either process. This led to the suggestion that cerebellar interactions with the brainstem are more important than those with cerebral structures for feedforward adaptation. Does complete removal of a cerebral hemisphere affect either of these processes? We studied split-belt walking in 10 children and adolescents (age 6–18 years) with hemispherectomy (i.e. surgical removal of one entire cerebral hemisphere) and 10 age- and sex-matched control subjects. Hemispherectomy did not impair reactive feedback control, though feedforward adaptation was impaired in some subjects. Specifically, some showed reduced or absent adaptation of inter-leg timing, whereas adaptation of spatial control was intact. These results suggest that the cerebrum is involved in adaptation of the timing, but not spatial, elements of limb movements.
Key Words: locomotion; children; motor learning
Received July 21, 2008. Revised September 25, 2008. Accepted November 13, 2008.
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