Interhemispheric Asymmetries of Motor Cortex Excitability in the Postacute Stroke Stage: A Paired-Pulse Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Study

Stroke

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2653-2658

  Cicinelli, Paola ^a   Pasqualetti, Patrizio ^b   Zaccagnini, Marina ^a   Traversa, Raimondo ^a   Olivefi, Massimiliano ^a   Rossini, Paolo Maria ^b,c  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

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

^c UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Evoked potentials, motor; Motor cortex; Recovery of function; Rehabilitation; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PARESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STROKE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 0242694066     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.0000092122.96722.72     Document Type: Article

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