Impairment-oriented training and training-induced adaptive motor cortex reorganisation after stroke: a fTMS study

Objective: This study investigated (1.) what type of changes in the motor cortex in stroke patients and to which degree such changes are associated with functional recovery and (2.) whether the type of motor training – rather than its intensity only – influences the success of any intervention in terms of adaptive motor cortex reorganisation and behavioural motor recovery after stroke. Methods, results, and interpretation: In a sample of 28 subacute anterior circulation ischemic stroke patients in the subacute phase with severe arm paresis reduced motor cortex excitability (increased motor thresholds, reduced ME…