Background: Spasticity following a stroke occurs in about 30% of patients. The mechanisms
underlying this disorder, however, are not well understood. Method: This review aims to …

The Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Nippon Medical School In recent years, our
understanding of motor learning, neuroplasticity and functional recovery after the occurrence …

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 …

Stroke remains a leading cause of adult disability. Some degree of spontaneous behavioral
recovery is usually seen in the weeks after stroke onset. Variability in recovery is substantial …

Background and Purpose—Injury-induced cortical reorganization is a widely recognized
phenomenon. In contrast, there is almost no information on treatment-induced plastic …

Human Hand Function is a multidisciplinary book that reviews the sensory and motor
aspects of normal hand function from both neurophysiological and behavioral perspectives …

Determining whether a person with stroke has reached their full potential for recovery is
difficult. While techniques such as transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and MRI have …

Background. Motor recovery after stroke is predicted only moderately by clinical variables,
implying that there is still a substantial amount of unexplained, biologically meaningful …

Background—The precise mechanisms of and biological basis for motor recovery after
stroke in adults are still largely unknown. Reorganization of the motor system after stroke as …

Contrary to the classical view of a pre-determined wiring pattern, there is considerable
evidence that cortical representation of body parts is continuously modulated in response to …