Influence of somatosensory input on motor function in patients with chronic stroke

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 206-212

  Floel, Agnes ^a,b   Nagorsen, Ulrike ^a,c   Werhahn, Konrad J ^d   Ravindran, Shashi ^a   Birbaumer, Niels ^c   Knecht, Stefan ^b   Cohen, Leonardo G ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FINGER TAPPING TASK; HAND; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PARESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; STROKE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WRIST FLEXION TASK;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANESTHESIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; FEMALE; FINGERS; FOOT; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PAIN MEASUREMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TIME FACTORS; WRIST;

EID: 3843061233     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.20170     Document Type: Article

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