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Imaging motor recovery after stroke.

Yozbatiran N, Cramer SC

Department of Neurology, University of California, Irvine, CA 92868, USA.

Most patients show improvement in the weeks or months after a stroke. Recovery is incomplete, however, leaving most with significant impairment and disability. Because the brain does not grow back to an appreciable extent, this recovery occurs on the basis of change in function of surviving tissues. Brain mapping studies have characterized a number of processes and principles relevant to recovery from stroke in humans. The findings have potential application to improving therapeutics that aim to restore function after stroke.

Published 2 October 2006 in NeuroRx, 3(4): 482-8.
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