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Layer-specific cortical signatures uncover a sensory origin of post-stroke motor dysfunction

Aug 2026 · medRxiv · 0 citations
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These findings provide the first human evidence that stroke does not disrupt the motor cortex uniformly but reorganizes at the level of individual laminar compartments, with the superficial input stage and deep output stage indexing separable aspects of motor dysfunction.

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