Post-Stroke Cortical Remapping Simulator
Interactive 3D model of use-dependent motor cortex plasticity after stroke: an infarct silences part of the hand's M1 representation, and Hebbian-style training recruits peri-infarct neurons to rebuild it. Tune infarct size, training intensity and plasticity rate and watch the cortical hand map reorganize in real time.
After an ischemic stroke destroys part of the primary motor cortex, the hand representation doesn't just vanish — surviving peri-infarct tissue can partially take over the lost function through activity-dependent (Hebbian) synaptic plasticity, provided rehabilitation supplies enough repetitions. This simulator renders a grid of cortical neurons as an instanced 3D mesh, lets you detonate an infarct of chosen size, and then drives a Hebbian recruitment model day by day under a training-intensity and plasticity-rate you control, so you can watch — and read out numerically — how much of the hand's motor map is rebuilt versus how much stays a permanent, silent lesion.
Detonate an infarct on a 3D grid of motor-cortex neurons and watch Hebbian, use-dependent plasticity recruit surviving peri-infarct tissue to rebuild the hand's motor map, driven by controllable training intensity and plasticity rate.
3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install