Editorial: Neurostimulation in ischaemic stroke - Down with the healthy hemisphere!

European Journal of Neurology

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1253-1254

  Matz, K ^a   Brainin, M ^a  

^a DANUBE UNIVERSITY KREMS   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARM MOVEMENT; BARTHEL INDEX; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; BRAIN; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

BRAIN; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; STROKE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 70450187548     PISSN: 13515101     EISSN: 14681331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-1331.2009.02785.x     Document Type: Editorial

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