The ipsilateral human motor cortex can functionally compensate for acute contralateral motor cortex dysfunction

Current Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 14, 2003, Pages 1201-1205

  Strens, Lucy H A ^a   Fogelson, Noa ^a   Shanahan, Paul ^a   Rothwell, John C ^a   Brown, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0037700451     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(03)00453-6     Document Type: Article

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