Jan Scholz

TL;DR: Using diffusion imaging, a localized increase in fractional anisotropy is detected in white matter underlying the intraparietal sulcus following training of a complex visuo-motor skill, the first evidence for training-related changes in white-matter structure in the healthy human adult brain.

TL;DR: The results suggest that learning a novel motor skill induces structural change in task-relevant WM pathways and that these changes may in part reflect learning-related increases in myelination.

TL;DR: It is proposed that contrary to the maladaptive model, cortical plasticity associated with phantom pain is driven by powerful and long-lasting subjective sensory experience, such as triggered by nociceptive or top–down inputs.

TL;DR: The brain’s ability to reorganise itself is key to the authors' recovery from injuries, but the subsequent mismatch between old and new organisation may lead to pain, so a ‘maladaptive plasticity’ theory is argued against by showing that phantom pain in upper limb amputees is independent of cortical remapping.

TL;DR: The use of diffusion-weighted imaging to investigate whether individual differences in fornix white matter microstructure in neurologically healthy participants were related to differences in memory as assessed by two recognition tasks supported the idea that there are distinct MTL–diencephalon pathways that subserve differing memory processes.