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Review
. 2006 Oct;3(4):482-8.
doi: 10.1016/j.nurx.2006.07.003.

Imaging motor recovery after stroke

Nuray Yozbatiran  1 , Steven C Cramer
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Review

Imaging motor recovery after stroke

Nuray Yozbatiran et al. NeuroRx. 2006 Oct.

Abstract

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.

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