It has finally dawned on someone that they know crap about how stroke recovery occurs. We have been guinea pigs for the last 50 years except that our doctors don't even have enough sense to monitor our recoveries. So we've been guinea pigs for nothing.
http://www.frontiersin.org/computational_neuroscience/10.3389/fncom.2013.00097/full?
- Department of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics and
Systems Engineering, Neuroengineering and Neurorobotics Lab (NeuroLAB),
University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
Computational models of neuromotor recovery after a stroke might help
to unveil the underlying physiological mechanisms and might suggest how
to make recovery faster and more effective. At least in principle,
these models could serve: (i) To provide testable hypotheses on the
nature of recovery; (ii) To predict the recovery of individual patients;
(iii) To design patient-specific “optimal” therapy, by setting the
treatment variables for maximizing the amount of recovery or for
achieving a better generalization of the learned abilities across
different tasks. Here we review the state of the art of computational
models for neuromotor recovery through exercise, and their implications
for treatment. We show that to properly account for the computational
mechanisms of neuromotor recovery, multiple levels of description need
to be taken into account. The review specifically covers models of
recovery at central, functional and muscle synergy level.
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