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ZFP384 and the Brain’s Repair Window After Stroke

ARNI Institute for Stroke Rehabilitation — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:33:57 +0000

After a stroke, the brain runs a repair programme of its own. The microglia, the brain’s resident immune cells, switch out of their initial inflammatory state and into a reparative one, producing growth factors such as insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF1) that rebuild myelin around damaged nerve fibres and strengthen synaptic connections. This is a

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Pairing Spinal Cord Stimulation & High Dose Arm Rehab

ARNI Institute for Stroke Rehabilitation — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:16:55 +0000

A stroke disrupts the descending commands from the motor cortex to the arm, but the spinal circuits below the lesion that drive the muscles remain intact; they are simply no longer receiving a strong enough signal. That gap is what cervical epidural spinal cord stimulation targets; two thin leads, each carrying several electrode contacts (and

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An ARNI Guide to the 10 Rarest Strokes

ARNI Institute for Stroke Rehabilitation — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:48:38 +0000

In this post, I’m going to run through ten of the rarer stroke types, ordered from the least rare down to the rarest. For each one I’ve given the approximate share of all UK strokes it represents, and a rough number of people affected each year, working from the figure of roughly 100,000 strokes annually

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Soft Robotic Glove That Reads Grasp Intention

ARNI Institute for Stroke Rehabilitation — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:45:52 +0000

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich have built a soft, pneumatic glove that reads the intention to grasp from your forearm muscles and then closes your hand around the object. Published in Nature Machine Intelligence in June 2026 by John Nassour and colleagues, the ‘soft-hand exoskeleton’ is a fabric glove with air cushions on

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Neuronavigated rTMS as Rehab Adjunct After Stroke

ARNI Institute for Stroke Rehabilitation — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 18:47:36 +0000

If you’ve come across transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) as a possible (clinical) add-on to stroke rehabilitation, an interesting review published in July 2026 in the journal Brain Sciences, led by Marcin Karol Setlak and colleagues at the Medical University of Silesia in Poland, draws a careful line between what the tech can and cannot yet

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Your Body Clock and Brain Recovery After Stroke

ARNI Institute for Stroke Rehabilitation — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 19:00:50 +0000

Did you know that strokes follow predictable time-of-day patterns? They happen more often in the morning hours and are often more severe near the end of the sleep period. A study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, led by Lauren Hablitz PhD at the University of Rochester Medicine and building on more than a

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Rethinking the Cause of Lacunar Stroke

ARNI Institute for Stroke Rehabilitation — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:08:34 +0000

If you have had a lacunar stroke, you probably have been told it was caused by fatty plaque narrowing your arteries, and put on aspirin or another antiplatelet drug to prevent the next one. New research from the University of Edinburgh, published in the journal Circulation in July 2026, suggests that picture may be wrong;

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Neubond Wristband That Detects Your Intention to Move

ARNI Institute for Stroke Rehabilitation — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:55:31 +0000

I’ve detailed Neubond on this Blog before – good news.. it’s on its way! As you know so well, after stroke, trying to move your affected hand and feeling nothing happen is one of the most frustrating experiences you can have… ut because the link between the brain’s intention to move and the sensory feedback

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‘MultiSensy’: VR Nerve Stimulation and Stroke Arm Recovery

ARNI Institute for Stroke Rehabilitation — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:44:51 +0000

If your affected hand still doesn’t feel & function right, or your arm still isn’t doing what you ask of it months or years after stroke, this summary of research published in Nature Medicine on 26 June 2026 may be worth a read so you know about a future tech intervention that could help. So,

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Cryoneurolysis for Post Stroke Spasticity

ARNI Institute for Stroke Rehabilitation — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:22:21 +0000

BOTOX never did much for your spasticity? Or never worked as well as you hoped? Now there is a longer-lasting NHS-available alternative that a number of ARNI survivors have tried and rated positively. Cryoneurolysis has been used in medicine since the 1970s for sensory pain management; in 2018 researchers adapted it to target the motor

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