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SUMMARY:Neurological Rehabilitation: From Receptors to Behaviour
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Marco Molinari MD PhD\, Santa Lucia Foundation\, Rome
 .\nNeurological Rehabilitation: From Receptors to Behaviour. A Story Told 
 by the Spinal Cord and Cerebellum\nNowadays\, Neurological Rehabilitation 
 is facing exciting times in which the gap between basic scientific knowled
 ge of brain plasticity mechanisms and bedside use is closing. This is part
 icularly true considering the great changes that research data forced in o
 ur views of cerebellar involvement in brain functioning and of rehabilitat
 ion approaches to spinal cord injuries. In the sixties very little doubt e
 xisted on the motor specificity of the cerebellum\, today cerebellar contr
 ibution is considered  critical also in a variety of  non-motor domains\
 , such as cognition\, emotion\, and affection processing. In this evolutio
 n also our understanding of learning mechanism and control systems has cha
 nged and this knowledge is producing quite an impact on the understanding 
 of pathologies once not considered within the cerebellar domain such as au
 tism\, schizophrenia and mood disorders. Similar changes have been seen in
  our view of spinal cord function. Once considered almost only a channel t
 o convey brain commands to the periphery at present we know that spinal co
 rd circuits are capable of processing complex signals and behaviours. Furt
 hermore\, today’s technology and animal models allow the addressing of b
 rain-spinal cord interactions after spinal cord lesion at many levels from
  molecular to physiological capable of guiding clinicians toward a more ef
 fective rehabilitation.
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