Review Article: Neuroimaging of Recovery of Function after Stroke: Implications for Rehabilitation

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 171-179

  Ances, Beau M ^a   D'esposito, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aphasia; Neuroimaging; Primary motor cortex; Rehabilitation; Stroke

Indexed keywords

APHASIA; CONVALESCENCE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE TRAINING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STROKE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; MOVEMENT; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0033734516     PISSN: 15459683     EISSN: 15526844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/154596830001400302     Document Type: Review

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