Ipsilateral versus contralateral cortical motor projections to a shoulder adductor in chronic hemiparetic stroke: Implications for the expression of arm synergies

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 185, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 509-519

  Schwerin, Susan ^a   Dewald, Julius P A ^a   Haztl, Matthew ^a   Jovanovich, Steven ^a   Nickeas, Michael ^a   MacKinnon, Colum ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abnormal; Coordination; Strength; Stroke; Synergy; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COORDINATION DISORDER; CORTICOBULBOSPINAL PATHYWAY; ELBOW; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE PROJECTION; PECTORALIS MAJOR MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOULDER; STROKE; TORQUE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; UPREGULATION;

ADULT; AGED; ARM; CHRONIC DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PARESIS; SHOULDER; STROKE;

EID: 39149119974     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-007-1169-8     Document Type: Article

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