This week, BlazerCast features a rehabilitation therapy developed by a UAB neuroscientist which produces changes in the structure of the brain, the first evidence of actual brain remodeling resulting from a rehabilitation therapy.
In findings presented online in Stroke, a Journal of the American Heart Association, sophisticated analysis of MRI images of stroke patients showed that Constraint Induced therapy produced a significant increase in the amount of gray matter present in the brains of patients receiving the therapy.
Remodeling the Brain
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April 22, 2008
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