Neurological Rehabilitation: Repair Mechanisms, Plasticity, and Connectomes
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Clinical Neurology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 December 2025
Special Issue Editors
Interests: neurorehabilitation; mechanical ventilation; brain
2. Center for Gender-specific Biology and Medicine (CGBM), University of Saarland, 66421 Homburg, Germany
Interests: neuroscience; synaptic transmission; astrocytes; neuroglia; molecular and cellular mechanisms of neuron-glia interaction in the central nervous system
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
"There is no health without brain health" is the guiding principle behind neurological rehabilitation (which, of course, includes not only diseases of the CNS but also those of the peripheral nervous system). Currently, 15 percent of people worldwide suffer from a neurological condition, and this results in enormous costs, including more than EUR 800 billion annually in Europe alone. Research in neurological rehabilitation is therefore crucial in enhancing future public health.
Neurological rehabilitation plays an important role in the overall structure of health care, as this period of treatment is usually the longest period during which patients receive and participate in restorative therapies.
This Special Issue will showcase therapeutic options currently available for neurological rehabilitation, what is known about their mechanisms of action, and what further developments can be expected in the future. This will be demonstrated using examples from vascular diseases, traumatic lesions, tumors, infectious and immunological diseases, and degenerative processes. In addition, this Special Issue will provide examples of how prevention and specific therapeutic measures can increase overall therapeutic success.
Prof. Dr. Thomas Mokrusch
Prof. Dr. Frank Kirchhoff
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- neurorehabilitation
- therapeutic approaches
- repair mechanism
- plasticity
- neurology
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