Cortical Plasticity during Motor Learning and Recovery after Ischemic Stroke

The motor system has the ability to adapt to environmental constraints and injury to itself. This adaptation is often referred to as a form of plasticity allowing for livelong acquisition of new movements and for recovery after stroke. We are not sure whether learning and recovery work via same or s...

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Main Authors: Jonas A. Hosp, Andreas R. Luft
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Language:English
Published: Wiley 2011-01-01
Series:Neural Plasticity
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/871296
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description The motor system has the ability to adapt to environmental constraints and injury to itself. This adaptation is often referred to as a form of plasticity allowing for livelong acquisition of new movements and for recovery after stroke. We are not sure whether learning and recovery work via same or similar neural mechanisms. But, all these processes require widespread changes within the matrix of the brain. Here, basic mechanisms of these adaptations on the level of cortical circuitry and networks are reviewed. We focus on the motor cortices because their role in learning and recovery has been investigated more thoroughly than other brain regions.
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spelling doaj-art-bd459effe9df4edf90a9c832d85fab292025-02-03T05:57:47ZengWileyNeural Plasticity2090-59041687-54432011-01-01201110.1155/2011/871296871296Cortical Plasticity during Motor Learning and Recovery after Ischemic StrokeJonas A. Hosp0Andreas R. Luft1Clinical Neurorehabilitation, Department of Neurology, University of Zurich, 8091 Zurich, SwitzerlandClinical Neurorehabilitation, Department of Neurology, University of Zurich, 8091 Zurich, SwitzerlandThe motor system has the ability to adapt to environmental constraints and injury to itself. This adaptation is often referred to as a form of plasticity allowing for livelong acquisition of new movements and for recovery after stroke. We are not sure whether learning and recovery work via same or similar neural mechanisms. But, all these processes require widespread changes within the matrix of the brain. Here, basic mechanisms of these adaptations on the level of cortical circuitry and networks are reviewed. We focus on the motor cortices because their role in learning and recovery has been investigated more thoroughly than other brain regions.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/871296
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title_full Cortical Plasticity during Motor Learning and Recovery after Ischemic Stroke
title_fullStr Cortical Plasticity during Motor Learning and Recovery after Ischemic Stroke
title_full_unstemmed Cortical Plasticity during Motor Learning and Recovery after Ischemic Stroke
title_short Cortical Plasticity during Motor Learning and Recovery after Ischemic Stroke
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