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ReviewNature reviews. Neurology2012

Neuroplasticity and functional recovery in multiple sclerosis.

Valentina Tomassini, Paul M Matthews, Alan J Thompson, Daniel Fuglø, Jeroen J Geurts, Heidi Johansen-Berg, Derek K Jones, Maria A Rocca, Richard G Wise, Frederik Barkhof and 1 more

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In one paragraph

Review in Nature reviews. Neurology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06485115 (The Effectiveness of Combining a Home-based Digital Motor Telerehabilitation Program With Conventional Therapy in Progressive Multiple Sclerosis), which is not on this map. Cited by 82 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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82citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
4.0field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT06485115 naunknown statusnot on this mapstarted 2024, after this paper: background citation

The Effectiveness of Combining a Home-based Digital Motor Telerehabilitation Program With Conventional Therapy in Progressive Multiple Sclerosis: a Multicentre, Randomized Controlled Trial

TypeinterventionalSponsorUniversita di VeronaRan2024 to 2026Enrolled78ConditionsProgressive Multiple SclerosisArmsDigital Telerehabilitation (Euleria Home), Conventional therapy
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

82 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 157 citations in OpenAlex.

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  17. Repair mechanisms of the central nervous system: From axon sprouting to remyelination.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2025
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22 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 7 institutions in 4 countries.

Valentina TomassiniSchool of Medicine, Cardiff University, UK. tomassiniv@cardiff.ac.uk
Paul M Matthews
Alan J Thompson
Daniel Fuglø
Jeroen J Geurts
Heidi Johansen-Berg
Derek K Jones
Maria A Rocca
Richard G Wise
Frederik Barkhof
Jacqueline Palace
Cardiff University · GBUniversity of Oxford · GBCenter for Neurosciences · USGlostrup Hospital · DKImperial College London · GBIRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele · ITNational Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council G0700399Medical Research Council G9409531Wellcome Trust 090955
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The development of therapeutic strategies that promote functional recovery is a major goal of multiple sclerosis (MS) research. Neuroscientific and methodological advances have improved our understanding of the brain's recovery from damage, generating novel hypotheses about potential targets and modes of intervention, and laying the foundation for development of scientifically informed recovery-promoting strategies in interventional studies. This Review aims to encourage the transition from characterization of recovery mechanisms to development of strategies that promote recovery in MS. We discuss current evidence for functional reorganization that underlies recovery and its implications for development of new recovery-oriented strategies in MS. Promotion of functional recovery requires an improved understanding of recovery mechanisms that can be modulated by interventions and the development of robust measurements of therapeutic effects. As imaging methods can be used to measure functional and structural alterations associated with recovery, this Review discusses their use to obtain reliable markers of the effects of interventions.

Indexed as

AnimalsHumansImmunologic FactorsMagnetic Resonance ImagingMultiple SclerosisNeuronal PlasticityPsychomotor PerformanceRecovery of FunctionImmunologic Factors

Identifiers

PMID22986429
PMCPMC3770511
OpenAlexW2075462921

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Registered trials

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