Plasticity in the Human Nervous System

Simon Boniface is Consultant Neurophysiologist and Director of Neurophysiology, Addenbrooke's Hospital and The Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre, Cambridge. Ulf Ziemann is Assistant Professor of Neurology, Clinic of Neurology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University of Frankfurt.

• 1. The nature and mechanisms of plasticity M. Rioult-Pedotti and J. P. Donoghue; 2. Techniques of transcranial magnetic stimulation J. C. Rothwell; 3. Developmental plasticity of the corticospinal system J. Eyre; 4. Practice induced plasticity in the human motor cortex J. Classen and L. G. Cohen; 5. Skill learning E. Robertson, H. Theoret and A. Pascual-Leone; 6. Stimulation induced plasticity in the human motor cortex J. Classen and U. Ziemann; 7. Lesions of cortex and post-stroke reorganisation P. M. Rossini and J. Liepert; 8. Lesions of the periphery and the spinal cord M. Angel, N. Davey, P. Ellaway and R. Chen; 9. Functional relevance of cortical plasticity P. Celnik and L. G. Cohen; 10. Therapeutic uses of rTMS C. Epstein and J. Rothwell; 11. Rehabilitation D. Gow, C. Fraser and S. Hamdy; 12. New questions M. Hallett, E. M. Wassermann and L. G. Cohen.

"This text is concise and well-organized...investigators and clinicians interested in motor system plasticity or TMS will find this book to be a valuable addition to their library." William J. Triggs, Neurology