Hand motor recovery after stroke: Tuning the orchestra to improve hand motor function

Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 21-33

  Fregni, Felipe ^a,b   Pascual Leone, Alvaro ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Ipsilateral motor cortex; Motor recovery; Primary motor cortex; Stroke; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN INJURY; CEREBELLUM; CONVALESCENCE; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; IPSILATERAL MOTOR CORTEX; LEARNING; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE EXCITATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROMODULATION; PARALLEL CIRCUIT; PERIPHERAL SOMATOSENSORY THERAPY; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; REVIEW; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; STROKE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; CEREBELLUM; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; EXERCISE THERAPY; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SKILLS; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 33646804870     PISSN: 15433633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00146965-200603000-00003     Document Type: Review

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