Grasping the opportunity: better behavioural diagnoses will lead to better treatments for stroke

Abstract

Hensel et al. combine fMRI, rTMS and 3D hand movement analyses to test the contributions of contralesional motor cortex (M1) and anterior parietal sulcus (aIPS) to motor recovery post-stroke. The results reveal differential roles of M1 and aIPS in different aspects of recovered hand motor function, depending on interhemispheric connectivity.This scientific commentary refers to ‘Recovered grasping performance after stroke depends on interhemispheric frontoparietal connectivity’ by Hensel et al. (https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awac157).