Effects of brain polarization on reaction times and pinch force in chronic stroke

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Hummel, Friedhelm C ^a,b   Voller, Bernhard ^a   Celnik, Pablo ^a   Floel, Agnes ^a   Giraux, Pascal ^a   Gerloff, Christian ^b   Cohen, Leonardo G ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DIRECT CURRENT; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; RESPONSE TIME; STROKE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SKILLS; PINCH STRENGTH; REACTION TIME; STROKE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 33751213393     PISSN: 14712202     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-7-73     Document Type: Article

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