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Neural substrates of arm recovery in severely impaired stroke patients with hand paralysis

Krasnow Monday Seminar, November 24, 2014, 4-5pm, Room 229, Krasnow Institute Building, Fairfax Campus

Michelle Harris-Love, PhD, PT, is Assistant Professor, Georgetown University Medical Center Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience, and Center for Brain Plasticity and Recovery, and also Research Scientist, MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital Neuroscience Research Center and Mechanisms of Therapeutic Rehabilitation Laboratory

ABSTRACT:
For over two decades, the neural mechanisms of motor recovery in mildly impaired stroke patients with full or partial recovery of hand movements have been widely studied. Comparatively little is known about more severely impaired patients who have little or no voluntary hand movement but retain some voluntary movement of the shoulder and elbow. The latter group is large and represents those in particular need of interventions to enhance recovery. The mechanisms of recovery in upper arm muscles of more severely impaired patients are likely to differ from those identified in recovery of hand movements in patients with mild impairment. The results of recent studies aimed at identifying mechanisms of reaching movement recovery in severely impaired stroke patients will be discussed.

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