Combined thinking and movement training for stroke and moyamoya disease

This research explores a new training approach that combines exercises for thinking (like memory and attention tasks) with physical movement activities. The study will test this combined training in people who have had a stroke with thinking difficulties or who have moyamoya disease, a rare blood vessel condition in the brain. Researchers will also use special imaging to see how the brain responds to this training.

Many people who survive a stroke struggle with both thinking problems and movement difficulties, but most rehabilitation focuses on just one or the other. This study exists to see whether combining both types of training together might work better than treating them separately, and to understand how the brain adapts to this new approach.