The development of more effective rehabilitative interventions requires a better
understanding of how humans learn and transfer motor skills in real-world contexts …

Noninvasive brain stimulation (NIBS) techniques can be used to monitor and modulate the
excitability of intracortical neuronal circuits. Long periods of cortical stimulation can produce …

Mirror neurons show activity during both the execution (AE) and observation of actions (AO).
The Mirror Neuron System (MNS) could be involved during motor imagery (MI) as well …

Stroke has long been regarded as focal disease with circumscribed damage leading to
neurological deficits. However, advances in methods for assessing the human brain and in …

Following a stroke, the resulting lesion creates contralateral motor impairment and an
interhemispheric imbalance involving hyperexcitability of the contralesional hemisphere …

Functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is an emerging tool for non-invasively
monitoring the haemodynamic response to brain activation. The technique has been widely …

Left-handers are often excluded from study cohorts in neuroscience and neurogenetics in
order to reduce variance in the data. However, recent investigations have shown that the …

If exercises are performed to increase muscle strength on one side of the body, voluntary
strength can increase on the contralateral side. This effect, termed the contralateral strength …

Behavioural and neurophysiological evidence convincingly establish that the left
hemisphere is dominant for motor skills that are carried out with either hand or those that …

Background Spastic limb paralysis due to injury to a cerebral hemisphere can cause long-
term disability. We investigated the effect of grafting the contralateral C7 nerve from the …