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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.

Medicine & Biophysics3DAdvanced60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 2D version
stroke-rehabilitation ↗ Open standalone

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.

⚙ Under the hood

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.

strokeneuroplasticitymotor cortexrehabilitationneuroscienceHebbian learning

3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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