The use of advanced technological solutions, which exploit intelligent robotic systems and electrodes capable of stimulating the nervous system, can increase the effectiveness of post-stroke rehabilitation and promote a possible restoration of motor function in patients. But for this to be truly possible, it is necessary to better understand the mechanisms by which the nervous system performs or re-learns the various types of movements.

This is the thesis proposed in the article "Advanced neurotechnologies for the restoration of motor function" published in the journal Neuron by a group of international scientists: Silvestro Micera, professor of the Institute of BioRobotics of the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna of Pisa and of the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Matteo Caleo, professor at the Department of Biomedical Sciences of the University of Padua and at the CNR Institute of Neurosciences of Pisa, Carmelo Chisari, professor at the Department of Translational Research and New Technologies in University of Pisa Medicine and Surgery, Friedhelm C. Hummel, professor of the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), and Alessandra Pedrocchi, professor of the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering of the Polytechnic of Milan