Biomarkers of stroke recovery: consensus-based core recommendations from the stroke recovery and rehabilitation roundtable

LA Boyd, KS Hayward, NS Ward… - … Journal of Stroke, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
The most difficult clinical questions in stroke rehabilitation are “What is this patient's potential
for recovery?” and “What is the best rehabilitation strategy for this person, given her/his …

Connectivity-based approaches in stroke and recovery of function

C Grefkes, GR Fink - The Lancet Neurology, 2014 - thelancet.com
After focal damage, cerebral networks reorganise their structural and functional anatomy to
compensate for both the lesion itself and remote effects. Novel developments in the analysis …

Understanding the role of the primary somatosensory cortex: Opportunities for rehabilitation

MR Borich, SM Brodie, WA Gray, S Ionta, LA Boyd - Neuropsychologia, 2015 - Elsevier
Emerging evidence indicates impairments in somatosensory function may be a major
contributor to motor dysfunction associated with neurologic injury or disorders. However, the …

Cortical reorganization after stroke: how much and how functional?

C Grefkes, NS Ward - The Neuroscientist, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
The brain has an intrinsic capacity to compensate for structural damage through
reorganizing of surviving networks. These processes are fundamental for recovery of …

A review of transcranial magnetic stimulation and multimodal neuroimaging to characterize post-stroke neuroplasticity

AM Auriat, JL Neva, S Peters, JK Ferris… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Following stroke, the brain undergoes various stages of recovery where the central nervous
system can reorganize neural circuitry (neuroplasticity) both spontaneously and with the aid …

Structural connectivity analyses in motor recovery research after stroke

P Koch, R Schulz, FC Hummel - Annals of clinical and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Structural connectivity analyses by means of diffusion‐weighted imaging have substantially
advanced the understanding of stroke‐related network alterations and their implications for …

[HTML][HTML] Upper extremity motor impairments and microstructural changes in bulbospinal pathways in chronic hemiparetic stroke

M Owen, C Ingo, J Dewald - Frontiers in neurology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Following hemiparetic stroke, precise, individuated control of single joints is often replaced
by highly stereotyped patterns of multi-joint movement, or abnormal limb synergies, which …

Brain plasticity following MI-BCI training combined with tDCS in a randomized trial in chronic subcortical stroke subjects: a preliminary study

X Hong, ZK Lu, I Teh, FA Nasrallah, WP Teo, KK Ang… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Brain-computer interface-assisted motor imagery (MI-BCI) or transcranial direct current
stimulation (tDCS) has been used in stroke rehabilitation, though their combinatory effect is …

The potential dual role of transcallosal inhibition in post-stroke motor recovery

F Bertolucci, C Chisari, F Fregni - Restorative Neurology and …, 2018 - content.iospress.com
Up to now, the mechanism of motor impairment and recovery after stroke has been thought
to be based on the interhemispheric competition model. According to this model, which …

An overview of fractional anisotropy as a reliable quantitative measurement for the corticospinal tract (CST) integrity in correlation with a Fugl-Meyer assessment in …

MKI Zolkefley, YMS Firwana, HZM Hatta… - Journal of physical …, 2021 - jstage.jst.go.jp
[Purpose] Understanding the essential mechanisms in post-stroke recovery not only
provides important basic insights into brain function and plasticity but can also guide the …