Author: External Communications

The research could potentially help physical therapists better strategise training of an unaffected limb when the affected limb cannot be engaged effectively during the rehabilitation of stroke patients with significant weakness on one side of the body or the patients with other unilateral brain injuries. Skilled actions, from a ballerina’s pirouette to playing a ghamak on the sitar, are based on the ability to learn new movement patterns and to adapt them to new environments. This ability to learn, store, execute and continuously refine actions is broadly defined as motor learning, and is driven by multiple neural mechanisms. Just...