Motor cortex plasticity predicts recovery in acute stroke

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1523-1528

  Di Lazzaro, Vincenzo ^a   Profice, P ^a   Pilato, F ^a   Capone, F ^a   Ranieri, F ^a   Pasqualetti, P ^b,c   Colosimo, C ^a   Pravata E ^a   Cianfoni, A ^d   Dileone, M ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b FATEBENEFRATELLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c IRCCS SAN RAFFAELE PISANA   (Italy)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

LTD; LTP; transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONVALESCENCE; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE EXCITABILITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PROBABILITY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STROKE;

EID: 77955947202     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhp216     Document Type: Article

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