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Congress book neurorehabilitation and neural repair

2015

Dear colleague, We are proud to announce the International Congress on Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair organised by the Dutch and Belgian Societies for Neurorehabilitation that will bridge the gap between neuroscience and practice. This 2-day meeting is focused on the most recent advances in neurorehabilitation research that are ripe for translation, providing opportunities to share knowledge, experience, and most recent developments in applying evidence-based practice. The scientifi c programme includes the most distinguished invited speakers in the fi eld of neuroplasticity and neurorehabilitation, and is dedicated to the management of most common problems such as gait and balance control, spasticity, cognitive impairments, including diffi culties in implementation of evidence in the fi eld of stroke, Parkinson's disease, MS and neuromuscular disorders. All these topics are engaged in 8 invited key note lectures, focused symposia, oral presentations and by your smashing posters that will be presented at both days. This multidisciplinary conference is important for all professionals dedicated to neurorehabilitation such as rehabilitation physicians, neurologists, physical and occupational therapists, nurses, psychologists, movement scientists, bioengineers as well as those who are more involved in the management of neurorehabilitation. On behalf of the Congress Committees, we wish you a warm welcome at the International Congress on Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair in Maastricht.

The top 100 cited neurorehabilitation papers

NeuroRehabilitation, 2017

Neurorehabilitation covers a large range of disorders, treatment approaches and methods. There have been previous citation analyses of rehabilitation and of its subfields. However, there has never been a comprehensive citation analysis in neurorehabilitation. The present study reports findings from a citation analysis of the top 100 most cited neurorehabilitation papers to describe the research trends in the field. A de-novo keyword search of papers indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection database yielded 52,581 papers. A candidate pool of the 200 most-cited papers published between 2005 and 2016 was reviewed by the clinician authors. The papers in the top 100 deemed to be irrelevant were discarded and replaced by the most highly-cited articles in the second tier deemed to be clinically relevant. The most frequently cited neurorehablitation papers appeared in Stroke, Movement Disorders, and Neurology. Papers tended to focus on treatments, especially for stroke. Authorship tren...

Neurorehabilitation: Five new things

Neurology: Clinical Practice, 2013

Neurologists have a new toolbox of options for neurorehabilitation of disabling brain disorders such as stroke and traumatic brain injury. An emerging intellectual paradigm for neurologic recovery that includes neural regeneration, repair, and dynamic reorganization of functional neural systems, as well as increasing awareness of behavioral principles that may support best return to function and freedom, brought forward treatments based on experience-dependent learning, neurophysiologic stimulation, and a combination of these concepts. In this article, we summarize five rehabilitative approaches to watch: constraint therapy for motor and language recovery, synergy of motor-language rehabilitation, prism adaptation training and other virtual feedback approaches, and noninvasive magnetic and electrical brain stimulation. N eurorehabilitation interventions have exploded since the year 2000, in parallel with a shift in the paradigm of neurologic care. In the mid-20th century, we turned away from the assumption that the effect of a brain injury such as a stroke on function, activity, and participation is permanent and became increasingly aware of the brain's regenerative potential, as well as dynamic brain reorganization, months and even many years later. Neurorehabilitation scientists pushed for translational research to define the permissive conditions under which optimal brain change and recovery occurs, 1 apparently requiring controlled, intensive stimulation of impaired brain networks. 2 Here, we summarize 5 treatments to rehabilitate motor and cognitive recovery based on behavioral or noninvasive physiologic stimulation (using magnetic fields or electricity). They have been explored primarily in stroke rehabilitation but are also potentially useful after brain trauma and in other neurologic conditions (e.g., spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis).

Upper extremity neurorehabilitation

2009

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