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Trial reportBrain communications2026

Enhancing spontaneous recovery after stroke: a randomized controlled trial.

Winston D Byblow, Maxine J Shanks, Benjamin Scrivener, Laura Duval, Cathy M Stinear, Arier Lee, P Alan Barber, Patricia Colle, April Ren, John Cirillo and 6 more

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Trial report in Brain communications, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Recovery of Dexterous Motor Control via Non-Monosynaptic Corticospinal Pathways.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026
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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

16 authors.

Winston D ByblowSchool of Exercise, Sport and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland 1142, New Zealand.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8347-6730
Maxine J ShanksSchool of Exercise, Sport and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland 1142, New Zealand.
Benjamin ScrivenerCentre for Brain Research, University of Auckland, Auckland 1142, New Zealand.
Laura DuvalSchool of Exercise, Sport and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland 1142, New Zealand.
Cathy M StinearCentre for Brain Research, University of Auckland, Auckland 1142, New Zealand.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9404-1959
Arier LeeDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Auckland, Auckland 1142, New Zealand.
P Alan BarberCentre for Brain Research, University of Auckland, Auckland 1142, New Zealand.
Patricia ColleDepartment of Medicine, University of Auckland, Auckland 1142, New Zealand.
April RenSchool of Exercise, Sport and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland 1142, New Zealand.
John CirilloDiscipline of Physiology, School of Biomedicine, University of Adelaide, Adelaide 5000, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3404-6408
Ahmet AracDepartment of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
Naveed EjazMindMaze SA, Lausanne 1006, Switzerland.
Michelle Chan-CortesMindMaze SA, Lausanne 1006, Switzerland.
Gangadhar GaripelliMindMaze SA, Lausanne 1006, Switzerland.
Tomoko KitagoDepartment of Neurology, Westchester Medical Center, NewYork Medical College, Valhalla, NY 10595, USA.
John W KrakauerDepartment of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4316-1846

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This Phase IIa biomarker-guided stroke rehabilitation trial aimed to determine if a 3-week programme of high-dose, high-intensity (HDHI) virtual exploratory movement (VEM) using MindPod Dolphin could improve upper limb recovery and outcomes early after stroke. Sixty-four participants were randomized into VEM (

Indexed as

humanspontaneous biological recoverystroke rehabilitationtranscranial magnetic stimulationupper limb

Identifiers

PMID42022291
PMCPMC13098183

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