Our finding of less interhemispheric connectivity in the stroke patients with impaired touch sensation relative to healthy controls early post-stroke is consistent with evidence of disrupted interhemispheric functional connectivity in stroke patients for other functions, such as movement and attention. The disruption observed is likely to be behaviorally relevant, given that activity in both hemispheres has been shown to be important in sensory processing and in activation studies of somatosensory and motor recovery . Further, previous studies using rsfMRI in stroke recovery across functions have highlighted the importance of interhemispheric functional con- nectivity in behavioral performance and in recovery over time