Journal article
Harnessing experience-dependent plasticity for CNS repair and regeneration
TB Cumming, J Bernhardt, AJ Hannan
Future Neurology | FUTURE MEDICINE LTD | Published : 2012
DOI: 10.2217/fnl.12.50
Abstract
The 7th World Congress of Neurorehabilitation was held from 1619 May, 2012, in Melbourne, Australia. Melbourne produced the largest attendance of any meeting thus far for this biennial congress of the World Federation of Neurorehabilitation. The congress provided a diverse range of presentations, from environmental interventions in animal models of brain disorders, to new techniques for rehabilitation and clinical trials. While stroke, traumatic brain injury and spinal cord injury featured prominently, there were also many other presentations on rehabilitation for neurodegenerative diseases and other neurological disorders. Here, we focus on a selection of novel findings reported at this con..
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Funding Acknowledgements
T Cumming is supported by a National Heart Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship. Both J Bernhardt and A Hannan are supported by ARC Future Fellowships (FT3) and NHMRC grants. The Florey Neuroscience Institutes acknowledges the Operational Infrastructure Support of the Victorian State Government. The authors have no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed.