Mirror Movements Complicate Interpretation of Cerebral Activation Changes during Recovery from Subcortical Infarction

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 213-221

  Wittenberg, George F ^a   Bastian, Amy J ^a   Dromerick, Alexander W ^a   Thach, W Thomas ^a   Powers, William J ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral infarction; Motor cortex; Positron emission tomography; Recovery of function

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; JOINT FUNCTION; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0033732951     PISSN: 15459683     EISSN: 15526844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/154596830001400307     Document Type: Article

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