Abstract

The study of brain repair and behavioral recovery after stroke continues to accelerate with points of convergence between findings in humans and results in animal models of stroke. Approaches to motor recovery after stroke can be usefully broken into 3 categories: reduction in impairment with a return to more normal patterns of motor behavior; compensatory responses with the other limb or even muscles within the same limb; and use of neurally controlled prosthetics that substitute for the affected limb. The future choice of any of these approaches to neurorehabilitation is likely to depend on both the severity of the initial impairment and the time since …

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