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Plasticity and Reorganization in the Rehabilitation of Stroke

The Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy (CIMT) Example

Published Online:August 05, 2016https://doi.org/10.1027/2151-2604/a000243

Abstract

Abstract. This paper outlines some actual developments in the behavioral treatment and rehabilitation of stroke and other brain injuries in post-acute and chronic conditions of brain lesion. It points to a number of processes that demonstrate the enormous plasticity and reorganization capacity of the human brain following brain lesion. It also highlights a series of behavioral and neuroscientific studies that indicate that successful behavioral rehabilitation is paralleled by plastic changes of brain structures and by cortical reorganization and that the amount of such plastic changes is obviously significantly determining the overall outcome of rehabilitation.

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