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ReviewFrontiers in systems neuroscience2022

The role of brain oscillations in post-stroke motor recovery: An overview.

Giulia Leonardi, Rosella Ciurleo, Francesca Cucinotta, Bartolo Fonti, Daniele Borzelli, Lara Costa, Adriana Tisano, Simona Portaro, Angelo Alito

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Review in Frontiers in systems neuroscience, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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15citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.7field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Efficacy of neuromodulation and rehabilitation approaches on pain relief in patients with spinal cord injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2025
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  10. Electrophysiological Correlates of Dentate Nucleus Deep Brain Stimulation for Poststroke Motor Recovery.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024
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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

9 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Giulia LeonardiDepartment of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine and Sports Medicine, Policlinico "G. Martino," Messina, Italy.
Rosella CiurleoIRCCS Centro Neurolesi Bonino-Pulejo, Messina, Italy.
Francesca CucinottaIRCCS Centro Neurolesi Bonino-Pulejo, Messina, Italy.
Bartolo FontiIRCCS Centro Neurolesi Bonino-Pulejo, Messina, Italy.
Daniele BorzelliDepartment of Biomedical, Dental Sciences and Morphological and Functional Images, University of Messina, Messina, Italy.
Lara CostaDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Messina, Messina, Italy.
Adriana TisanoDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Messina, Messina, Italy.
Simona PortaroDepartment of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine and Sports Medicine, Policlinico "G. Martino," Messina, Italy.
Angelo AlitoDepartment of Biomedical, Dental Sciences and Morphological and Functional Images, University of Messina, Messina, Italy.
University of Messina · ITCentro Neurolesi Bonino Pulejo · ITAzienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Policlinico "G. Martino" · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Stroke is the second cause of disability and death worldwide, highly impacting patient's quality of life. Several changes in brain architecture and function led by stroke can be disclosed by neurophysiological techniques. Specifically, electroencephalogram (EEG) can disclose brain oscillatory rhythms, which can be considered as a possible outcome measure for stroke recovery, and potentially shaped by neuromodulation techniques. We performed a review of randomized controlled trials on the role of brain oscillations in patients with post-stroke searching the following databases: Pubmed, Scopus, and the Web of Science, from 2012 to 2022. Thirteen studies involving 346 patients in total were included. Patients in the control groups received various treatments (sham or different stimulation modalities) in different post-stroke phases. This review describes the state of the art in the existing randomized controlled trials evaluating post-stroke motor function recovery after conventional rehabilitation treatment associated with neuromodulation techniques. Moreover, the role of brain pattern rhythms to modulate cortical excitability has been analyzed. To date, neuromodulation approaches could be considered a valid tool to improve stroke rehabilitation outcomes, despite more high-quality, and homogeneous randomized clinical trials are needed to determine to which extent motor functional impairment after stroke can be improved by neuromodulation approaches and which one could provide better functional outcomes. However, the high reproducibility of brain oscillatory rhythms could be considered a promising predictive outcome measure applicable to evaluate patients with stroke recovery after rehabilitation.

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brain oscillationsneuromodulationnon-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS)rehabilitationstroke disability

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PMID35965998
PMCPMC9373799
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