Finding an optimal rehabilitation paradigm after stroke: Enhancing fiber growth and training of the brain at the right moment

After stroke the central nervous system reveals a spectrum of intrinsic capacities to react as a highly dynamic system which can change the properties of its circuits, form new contacts, erase others, and remap related cortical and spinal cord regions. This plasticity can lead to a surprising degree...

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Main Authors: Anna-Sophia eWahl, Martin E. eSchwab
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00381/full