Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

impact factor 2011 2.510
ISSN
0922-6028
Volume
31; 6 issues
Status
Last issue (31:2) online on 22 March 2013
Next issue
31:3 scheduled for May 2013
Back volumes
1-30
Subject
Neurosciences
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Shift of Language Function to Right Hemisphere Impedes Post-Stroke Aphasia Recovery 
Findings Published in Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

This interdisciplinary journal publishes papers relating the plasticity and response of the nervous system to accidental or experimental injuries and their interventions, transplantation, neurodegenerative disorders and experimental strategies to improve regeneration or functional recovery and rehabilitation. Experimental and clinical research papers adopting fresh conceptual approaches are encouraged. The overriding criteria for publication are novelty, significant experimental or clinical relevance and interest to a multidisciplinary audience. Experiments on un-anesthetized animals should conform with the standards for the use of laboratory animals as established by the Institute of Laboratory Animal Resources, US National Academy of Sciences. Experiments in which paralytic agents are used must be justified. Patient identity should be concealed. All manuscripts are sent out for blind peer review to editorial board members or outside reviewers.


Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience is a member of Neuroscience Peer Review Consortium.

Editor-in-Chief

Bernhard A. Sabel, PhD
Institute of Medical Psychology
Otto-v.-Guericke University of Magdeburg
Leipzigerstrasse 44
39120 Magdeburg
Germany
Tel.: +49 391 672 1800
Fax:+49 391 672 1803
Email: rnn@med.ovgu.de

Managing Editor

Sylvia Prilloff, PhD
Email: editor-rnn@med.ovgu.de

Editorial Assistant

Steffi Matzke

Founding Editor

Donald G. Stein

Reviewing Editors

Doychin N. Angelov, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
William Freed, NIDA, Baltimore, USA
Lutz Jäncke, University Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland 
Josef Rauschecker, Georgetown University, Washington, USA
Paolo Maria Rossini, Catholic University of Rome , Rome, Italy
Donald G. Stein, Emory University, Atlanta, USA

 

 

Associate Editors

Zubair Ahmed, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Jane B. Allendorfer, University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center, Cincinnati, USA
Eckart Altenmüller, HMTM-Hannover, Hannover, Germany
Patrick Anderson, University College London, London, United Kingdom
Andrea Antal, University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
Eric Beaumont, University Montréal, Montréal, Canada
Christian Behl, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany
Jorge A. Bergado, CIREN , Havana, Cuba
Michael Borich, University of British Columbia , Vancouver, Canada
Daniele Bottai, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
Stephan Brandt, Charité, Berlin, Germany
Barbara S. Bregman, Georgetown University, Washington D.C., USA
Jacqueline Bresnahan, Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, USA
Ross Bullock, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA
Merih Cetinkaya, Uludag University, Bursa, Turkey
Neelima B. Chauhan, Jesse Brown VA Medical Center, University of Illinois at Chigaco, Chicago, USA
Benjamin Clemens, RWTH Aachen University Hospital, Aachen, Germany
Leonardo Cohen, NINDS-NIH , Bethesda, USA
Branch Coslett, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Volker Dietz, University Hospital Balgrist, Zürich, Switzerland
Máté D. Döbrössy, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
Gary Dunbar, Central Michigan University, Michigan, USA
Dominique Durand, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA
Michael Fehlings, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, Canada
Seth Finklestein, Biotrofix Inc., Nedham, USA
Herta Flor, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany
Karin Forsberg Nilsson, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Richard Frackowiak, CHUV University Hospital, London, UK
Felipe Fregni, Harvard Medical School , Boston, USA
Afsaneh Gaillard, Université de Poitiers , Poitiers, France
Diana García del Barco-Herrera, Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Pharmaceutical Division, La Habana, Cuba
Alfredo Gorio, University of Milan, Milano, Italy
Sherifa Hamed, Assiut University Hospital , Assiut, Egypt
Roy Hamilton, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Alan Harvey, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Huiguang He, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Paco Herson, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, USA
David Hovda, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Walter Huber, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany
Ole Isacson, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, USA
Lyn B. Jakeman, Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, USA
Kunlin Jin, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, USA
Jukka Jolkkonen, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
Theresa A. Jones, University of Texas, Austin, USA
Monika Jungblut, Interdisciplinary Institute for Music- and Speech-Therapy, Duisburg, Germany
Jon H. Kaas, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA
Soo Young Kim, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, USA
Yun-Hee Kim, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Teresa J. Kimberley, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
Anthony E. Kline, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA
Bryan E. Kolb, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada
Boris Kotchoubey, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
Emma Lane, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales
Michelle LaPlaca, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA
Shelly Levy-Tzedek, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
Susan Mackinnon, Washington University , St. Louis, USA
Lamberto Maffei, Istituti di Neurofisiologia del C.N.R., Pisa, Italy
Hari Manev, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA
Paolo Manganotti, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
Niklas Marklund, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden
Per Mattsson, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Donald E. Mitchell, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
Gabriela Moralí, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social , México City, México
Harald Müller, University Mainz, Mainz, Germany
Xavier Navarro, University Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Michael A. Nitsche, University Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
Antal Nógrádi, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
Randolph Nudo, University Kansas, Kansas City, USA
Rosario Osta Pinzolas, Zaragoza University , Zaragoza, Spain
Martin Oudega, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, USA
Nam-Jong Paik, Seoul National University , Seoul, South Korea
Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Beth. Israel Hosp., Boston, USA
Walter Paulus, University Göttingen , Göttingen, Germany
Giovanni Pellegrino, Campus Bio-Medico University, Rome, Italy
Iris-Katharina Penner, University of Basel , Basel, Switzerland
Thomas Platz, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University , Greifswald, Germany
Uri Polat, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel
Geoffrey Raisman, UCL Institute of Neurology, London, United Kingdom
Julio J. Ramirez, Davidson College, Davidson, USA
Klaus Reymann, German Center for Neurodegenerative diseases (DZNE), Magdeburg, Germany
Ian H. Robertson, University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Roberta Ronchi, IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milano, Italy
David Russell, Oslo University Hospital , Oslo, Norway
Mircea Ariel Schoenfeld, University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany
Kiarash Shahlaie, University of California Davis, Sacramento, USA
Xue-feng F. Shi, Tianjin Eye Hospital and Institute, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China
Jeffrey S. Smith, Saginaw Valley State University, Saginaw, USA
Kwok-Fai So, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Cathy Stinear, The University of Auckland , Auckland, New Zealand
Jerzy P. Szaflarski, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, USA
Elzbieta Szelag, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland
Peter A. Tass, Research Center Juelich , Juelich, Germany
Edward Taub, University Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, USA
Franca Tecchio, LET’S-ISTC-CNR, Rome, Italy
Solon Thanos, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
Eugene Tunik, University of New Jersey, Newark, USA
Gitendra Uswatte, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, USA
Joost Verhaagen, Netherlands Institute for Brain Research, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Oliver Von Bohlen, University of Greifswald , Greifswald, Germany
Stephen Waxman, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, USA
Anja Wellejus, Nensius Research A/S, Copenhagen, Denmark
Sherry L. Willis, L. University of Texas, Austin, USA
Steven L. Wolf, L. Emory University , Atlanta, USA
Lan Zhang, Xuanwu Hospital of  Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
Xiaojun Zhang, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
Binhai Zheng, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, USA
Jacqueline Zöllig, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland 

Reviewers

Yaomin Chen, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, USA
Ying Dai, Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, USA 
Dalton Dietrich, University of Miami , Miami, USA
Edward D. Hall, University Kentucky, Lexington, USA
Patricia Hurn, Oregon Health & Sci. University, Portland, USA
Liaoliao Li, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
Nanxin "Nick" Li, Yale University, New Haven, USA
Jeffrey D. Rothstein, Johns-Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
Timothy J. Schallert, University of Texas, Austin, USA
Wei Shen, Pfizer Neuroscience Research Unit, Cambridge, USA
Evan Y. Snyder, The Burnham Institute, La Jolla, USA
Jing Wang, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA
Takehiko Yanagihara, Osaka Neurological Research Institute , Osaka, Japan
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10 Apr 2013 - Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is being increasingly explored as a therapeutic tool for movement disorders associated with deficient inhibition throughout the central nervous system. This includes treatment of focal hand dystonia (FHD), characterized by involuntary movement of the fingers either curling into the palm or extending outward. A new study published in Restorative ...

Shift of Language Function to Right Hemisphere Impedes Post-Stroke Aphasia Recovery

04 Apr 2013 - In a study designed to differentiate why some stroke patients recover from aphasia and others do not, investigators have found that a compensatory reorganization of language function to right hemispheric brain regions bodes poorly for language recovery. Patients who recovered from aphasia showed a return to normal left-hemispheric language activation patterns. These results, which may open up new ...

Shedding Light on Early Parkinson’s Disease Pathology

02 Apr 2013 - In a mouse model of early Parkinson’s disease (PD), animals displayed movement deficits, loss of tyrosine-hydroxylase (TH)-positive fibers in the striatum, and astro-gliosis and micro-gliosis in the substantia nigra (SN), without the loss of nigral dopaminergic neurons. These findings, which may cast light on the molecular processes involved in the initial stages of PD, are available in the curr...

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17 Oct 2012 - The neural mechanism underlying amblyopia, also called “lazy eye” is still not completely clear. A new study now reports abnormal eye movements of the lazy eye, which suggests that disturbed functioning of eye movement coordination between both eyes and not primarily the dysfunction of the visual cortex may be a cause of amblyopia (Xue-feng Shi et al.)....

Neural Interface for Hand Prosthesis Can Restore Function in Brain Areas Responsible for Motor Control

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Scientists Report Promising New Direction for Cognitive Rehabilitation in the Elderly

21 Aug 2012 - Research has found that declines in temporal information processing (TIP), the rate at which auditory information is processed, underlies the progressive loss of function across multiple cognitive systems in the elderly, including new learning, memory, perception, attention, thinking, motor control, problem solving, and concept formation. In a new study, scientists have found that elderly subjects...

Therapy Combining Exercise and Neuroprotective Agent Shows Promise for Stroke Victims

16 Aug 2012 - In a study published in the current issue of Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience scientists report that a therapy combining exercise with the neurovascular protective agent S-nitrosoglutathione (GSNO) improved recovery from stroke in a rat model. GSNO is a compound found naturally in the body and it has no known side effects or toxicity. ...

Music to My Eyes: Device Converting Images into Music Helps Individuals without Vision Reach for Objects in Space

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