Grant: Travel Awards - Institute Community Support

Cognition has a critical role in determining quality of life after stroke. Cognitive deficits are often difficult to relate to specific lesions in the brain. Resting state functional MRI (rFMRI) allows for the study of brain networks, allowing for the identification of how abnormal brain function contributes to cognitive deficits. In the current study we assessed cognition and resting network activity in chronic stroke and healthy control participants. We found that even in relatively high functioning chronic stroke participants memory is significantly impaired. We were also able to identify changes in brain networks associated with attention and cognition. This study indicates that analysis of resting state networks will be useful in the study of post-stroke recovery.