How salient is the silent period? The role of the silent period in the prognosis of upper extremity motor recovery after severe stroke

Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 10-24

  Van Kuijk, Annette A ^a   Pasman, Jaco W ^a   Geurts, Alexander C H ^b   Hendricks, Henk T ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Sint Maartenskliniek ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Motor recovery; Silent period; Stroke; TMS

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ARM MOVEMENT; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PARALYSIS; PARESIS; REVIEW; SPASTICITY; STROKE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; HUMANS; MAGNETICS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PROGNOSIS; REACTION TIME; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 13244278150     PISSN: 07360258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.WNP.0000150975.83249.71     Document Type: Review

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