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 …

Abstract Purpose of Review Despite current rehabilitative strategies, stroke remains a
leading cause of disability in the USA. There is a window of enhanced neuroplasticity early …

Pathological perturbations of the brain are rarely confined to a single locus; instead, they
often spread via axonal pathways to influence other regions. Patterns of such disease …

Stroke is a leading cause of acquired, permanent disability worldwide. Although the
treatment of acute stroke has been improved considerably, the majority of patients to date …

After a century of false hopes, recent studies have placed the concept of diaschisis at the
centre of the understanding of brain function. Originally, the term 'diaschisis' was coined by …

A traditional and widely used approach for linking neurological symptoms to specific brain
regions involves identifying overlap in lesion location across patients with similar symptoms …

Researchers have sought to understand how language is processed in the brain, how brain
damage affects language abilities, and what can be expected during the recovery period …

Most individuals who experience aphasia after a stroke recover to some extent, with the
majority of gains taking place in the first year. The nature and time course of this recovery …

Neuroplasticity can be defined as the ability of the nervous system to respond to intrinsic or
extrinsic stimuli by reorganizing its structure, function and connections. Major advances in …

Neurological insults, such as congenital blindness, deafness, amputation, and stroke, often
result in surprising and impressive behavioural changes. Cortical reorganisation, which …