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Researchers from the AIST Human Technology Research Institute in Japan have formulated new techniques of motor function rehabilitation that help patients who have suffered brain damage and/or stroke. The main idea of their research focuses on patients executing repetitive exercises aiming to strengthen other, uninjured, areas of the brain, like fine motor skills. In their trails, after several weeks of this kind of therapy, test subjects demonstrated significant improvement in all motor skills, large and fine. Researchers concluded that when the uninjured areas of the brain are strengthened post brain injury, those areas assist and ultimately improve the damaged areas.

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