Motor cortex stroke impairs individual digit movement in skilled reaching by the rat

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 311-322

  Alaverdashvili, Mariam ^a,b   Whishaw, Ian Q ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^b NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dexterity; Individual finger movements; Motor cortex; Skilled reaching; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FINGER; HAND MOVEMENT; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STROKE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIDEORECORDING;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HAND STRENGTH; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SKILLS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; STROKE; TOE JOINT; TOES; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 48249117487     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2008.06315.x     Document Type: Article

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