ABSTRACT
It is difficult to find a more challenging problem in rehabilitation medicine than recovery of neurological function, either fully or partially, that is lost through injury, disease, or aging. Despite intensive scientific effort, the need for greater understanding of both physiological and psychiatric brain dysfunction and effective clinical applications has thus far overwhelmed existing rehabilitative tools and methods. This situation has grown particularly acute with increasing life spans and dramatically increasing survival rates for major diseases and trauma, leading to ever increasing numbers of people with substantial neurological dysfunction.
