Mapping plastic brain changes after acute lesions

Current Opinion in Neurology

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 709-713

  Liepert, Joachim ^a,b   Weiller, Cornelius ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b Neurologische Klinik   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MOVEMENT THERAPY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RAT; REVIEW; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STROKE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY;

EID: 0033383871     PISSN: 13507540     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019052-199912000-00009     Document Type: Review

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