Evidence indicates that experience-dependent cortical plasticity underlies post-stroke motor
recovery of the impaired upper extremity. Motor skill learning in neurologically intact …

Stroke is one of the leading causes for disability worldwide. Motor function deficits due to
stroke affect the patients' mobility, their limitation in daily life activities, their participation in …

Hodics T, Cohen LG, Cramer SC. Functional imaging of intervention effects in stroke motor
rehabilitation. OBJECTIVE: To assess intervention-specific effects on cortical reorganization …

Motor recovery after stroke is related to neural plasticity, which involves developing new
neuronal interconnections, acquiring new functions, and compensating for impairment …

Background. Previous studies report that motor recovery after partial destruction of the
primary motor cortex (M1) may be associated with adaptive functional reorganization within …

Background and purpose. Mental practice (MP), which involves cognitive rehearsal of
physical movements, is a noninvasive, inexpensive method of enabling repetitive, task …

Background. Understanding mechanisms of recovery may result in new treatment strategies
to improve motor outcome after stroke. Imaging techniques such as functional magnetic …

Recent evidence indicates that the brain can remodel after stroke, primarily through
synaptogenesis. Task-specific and repetitive exercise appear to be key factors in promoting …

Limited data directly characterize the dynamic evolution of brain activity associated with
motor learning after stroke. The current study considered whether sequence-specific motor …

Interventions that facilitate neural plasticity and reorganization may accelerate recovery of
motor function during the spontaneous recovery period, without affecting final outcome. This …