Assessment and Rehabilitation of Cognitive Function in Neurological Disorders
A special issue of Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425). This special issue belongs to the section "Neurorehabilitation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 January 2026 | Viewed by 74
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Post-stroke cognitive impairment (PSCI) affects nearly half of stroke survivors, yet the mechanisms that drive it remain elusive. Beyond direct cortical injury, diaschisis—remote functional depression following focal damage—may play a pivotal role. Recent studies have highlighted the contribution of thalamic, hippocampal, and cerebellar diaschisis to PSCI, particularly after anterior circulation stroke, where these regions are structurally intact but disconnected from cortical networks.
Insights from cerebellar ataxias underscore the cognitive role of cerebellar posterior lobes, which co-evolved with the prefrontal cortex and maintain dense anatomical and functional connectivity to executive networks. Lesions involving cerebellar posterior lobes are associated with cognitive impairment and prefrontal diaschisis, while neuromodulation studies begin to target these circuits therapeutically.
We especially welcome translational work bridging diaschisis models with clinical rehabilitation, and studies applying frameworks from neurodegenerative or developmental disorders to cerebrovascular disease.
Dr. Gilles Naeije
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- post-stroke cognitive impairment
- diaschisis
- cerebellum
- cortico-cerebellar connectivity
- neuromodulation
- transcranial cerebellar stimulation
- cognitive rehabilitation
- functional connectivity
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