Original title: Recovery from stroke: current concepts and future perspectives
A stroke can leave lasting problems with movement or other abilities. The brain may reorganize its networks to help make up for the damage, but some changes can interfere with recovery. This review covers how brain scans and non-invasive brain stimulationA way to influence brain activity without surgery. help researchers study and influence those changes. It also discusses technology-based treatments tailored to individual patients.
After an injury, a sports team may have to change who plays each position. Some new arrangements help the team keep playing, while others leave important jobs undone. In this paper, the team’s new arrangement stands for the brain’s reorganization after stroke, and the review considers how to identify changes that support recovery and those that hinder it.
Stroke survivors can face lasting effects on independence and quality of life, even as treatment for the stroke itself improves. Understanding which brain changes help or hinder recovery could guide rehabilitation tailored to each patient.
The abstract describes a review of current research, not a test of a specific treatment. It does not give results showing how much patient-tailored approaches improve recovery, or say which approach works best. It also notes that current models have limitations.
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Recovery from stroke: current concepts and future perspectives — Christian Grefkes, Gereon R. Fink — Neurological Research and Practice — doi:10.1186/s42466-020-00060-6
Abstract licence: CC BY
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