{"id":2446,"date":"2025-09-12T19:23:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T23:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/kumarlab\/?p=2446"},"modified":"2025-09-14T19:25:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T23:25:37","slug":"new-publication-in-plos-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/kumarlab\/2025\/09\/12\/new-publication-in-plos-one\/","title":{"rendered":"New publication in PLOS One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Dr. Soyoung Lee published this study from her dissertation project.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>We concurrently assessed pre-frontal cortex (PFC) activity and gait using wearable functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) and inertial sensing systems during single- and dual-task walking in people with painful knee osteoarthritis (n=48).<\/span><span class=\"white-space-pre\"> <\/span><span><br \/>\n<\/span><span><br \/>\n<\/span><span>We identified three key findings<\/span><span><br \/>\n<\/span><span><br \/>\n<\/span><span>1. PFC activation was similar between single- and dual-task walking<\/span><span><br \/>\n<\/span><span>2. Gait was worse during dual- vs. single-task walking but cognitive performance was similar between dual-task walking and a cognitive task<\/span><span><br \/>\n<\/span><span>3. Greater PFC activation during dual-task walking was related to better gait performance.<\/span><span class=\"white-space-pre\"> <\/span><span><br \/>\n<\/span><span><br \/>\n<\/span><span>Our findings suggest that people with knee OA may not have sufficient brain reserve to increase prefrontal cortex function and maintain gait performance when challenged with dual-task conditions during walking. This may increase their risk of falls while walking in everyday life and interventions to improve dual-task walking performance may be considered in future studies.<\/span><span><br \/>\n<\/span><span><br \/>\n<\/span><span>Read open-access here:<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0331070\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0331070<\/a><\/span><span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Soyoung Lee published this study from her dissertation project. We concurrently assessed pre-frontal cortex (PFC) activity and gait using wearable functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) and inertial sensing systems during single- and dual-task walking in people with painful knee osteoarthritis (n=48). We identified three key findings 1. PFC activation was similar between single- and dual-task [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13258,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/kumarlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/kumarlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/kumarlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/kumarlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13258"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/kumarlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2446"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/kumarlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2448,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/kumarlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446\/revisions\/2448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/kumarlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/kumarlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/kumarlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}