About this journal

An interdisciplinary approach to stroke rehabilitation yields improved outcomes.

Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation is the leading journal devoted to the study and dissemination of interdisciplinary, evidence-based, clinical information related to stroke rehabilitation. The journal’s scope covers physical medicine and rehabilitation, neurology, neurorehabilitation, neural engineering and therapeutics, neuropsychology and cognition, optimization of the rehabilitation system, robotics and biomechanics, pain management, nursing, physical therapy, cardiopulmonary fitness, mobility, occupational therapy, speech pathology and communication. There is a particular focus on stroke recovery, improving rehabilitation outcomes, quality of life, activities of daily living, motor control, family and care givers, and community issues.

The journal reviews and reports clinical practices, clinical trials, state-of-the-art concepts, and new developments in stroke research and patient care. Both primary research papers, reviews of existing literature, and invited editorials, are included. Sharply-focused, single-issue topics, and the latest in clinical research, provide in-depth knowledge.

Subscribers have described Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation as a "living textbook" of functional approaches and innovative techniques. Each bimonthly issue includes a key topic or theme, as well as the latest in clinical research and evidence-based practice. The result is an ongoing service that keeps knowledge for all members of the stroke recovery and rehabilitation team at the leading edge of practice.

• Dr Elliot J Roth (Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine / Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, IL, USA) [email protected]

Special Feature Editors

• Lynne C Brady Wagner (Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Charlestown, USA)
• Susan Johnson Taylor (Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA)

Editorial Board

• John D Banja (Emory University / Atlanta Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Atlanta, USA)
• Frank Becker (Sunnaas Rehabilitation Hospital / University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway)
• Julie Bernhardt (LaTrobe University, Melbourne, Australia)
• José Biller (Loyola University, Illinois, USA)
• Duane S Bishop (Southern New England Rehabilitation Center / Brown University / St. Luke's Hospital, New Bedford, USA)
• Randie M Black-Schaffer (Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital / Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA)
• Ross Bogey (University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, USA)
• Murray E Brandstater (Loma Linda University / Loma Linda Medical Center, Loma Linda, USA)
• Martha S Burns (Northwestern University, Evanston, USA)
• Bruce Caplan (Rehabilitation Psychologist, Neuropsychologist, Wynnewood, USA)
• Ann L Charness (University of Texas, Galveston, USA)
• Leora Reiff Cherney (Northwestern University, Chicago, USA)
• Valery Feigin (Auckland University of Technology / National Institute for Stroke and Applied Neurosciences (NISAN), Auckland, New Zealand)
• Gary Goldberg (Virginia Commonwealth University / Medical College of Virginia / Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center, Richmond, USA)
• Gunnar Grimby (Sahlgrenska Academy at Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden)
• Ann Hammer (Örebro University Hospital, Örebro, Sweden)
• Robert J Hartke ( Northwestern University, Chicago, USA)
• Richard Harvey (Northwestern University, Chicago, USA)
• Jacqueline Hinckley (Choose Quality, LLC, St. Petersburg, USA)
• Tammy Hoffmann (Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia)
• Audrey L Holland (University of Arizona, Tucson, USA)
• Rosemarie B. King (Northwestern University, Chicago, USA)
• Michael L Jones ( Virginia C. Crawford Research Institute, Shepherd Center, Atlanta, USA)
• Christine M MacDonell (Medical Rehabilitation and International Aging Services/Medical Rehabilitation, Washington, USA)
• John R McGuire (Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA)
• Karen Mueller (Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, USA)
• Stephen J Page (The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, USA)
• Michael R P Pollack (Rankin Park Centre for Aged Care and Rehabilitation, Hunter New England Local Health Network, New South Wales, Australia)
• Jessica Presperin-Pedersen (Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA)
• Paul R Rao (Medstar National Rehabilitation Hospital, Washington, D.C / University of Maryland, USA)
• Marianne Shaughnessy (University of Maryland School of Nursing / Baltimore VA Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center, Baltimore, USA
• Hilary Siebens (University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA)
• Dale C Strasser (Emory University / Atlanta VA Medical Center, Atlanta, USA)
• Robert W Teasell (Parkwood Hospital / St. Joseph's Health Care London / University of Western Ontario, Ontario, Canada)
• Derick Treharne Wade (Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford, UK)
• Robert Werner (VA Medical Center / University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, USA)
• Steven L Wolf (Emory University / Neil Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Atlanta, USA)
• Richard D Zorowitz (Staff Physician, MedStar National Rehabilitation Network, Washington, DC, USA)