Functional imaging of stroke recovery: What have we learnt and where do we go from here?

International Journal of Stroke

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 7-16

  Johansen berg, Heidi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GAIT; HUMAN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; PATIENT CARE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; STROKE;

EID: 33846668274     PISSN: 17474930     EISSN: 17474949     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-4949.2007.00093.x     Document Type: Review

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