Post-stroke plastic reorganisation in the adult brain

Lancet Neurology

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 493-502

  Rossini, Paolo Maria ^a,b,c   Calautti, Cinzia ^e   Pauri, Flavia ^d   Baron, Jean Claude ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

^b FATEBENEFRATELLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c IRCCS ISTITUTO CENTRO SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO FATEBENEFRATELLI   (Italy)

^d SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^e NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN TOMOGRAPHY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONVALESCENCE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INTERHEMISPHERIC TRANSFER; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; STROKE; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 0038714832     PISSN: 14744422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1474-4422(03)00485-X     Document Type: Review

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