Recovery of upper-limb function due to enhanced use-dependent plasticity in chronic stroke patients

Brain

Volumn 133, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 3373-3384

  Koganemaru, Satoko ^a,b   Mima, Tatsuya ^b   Thabit, Mohamed Nasreldin ^b   Ikkaku, Tomoko ^c   Shimada, Kenji ^d   Kanematsu, Madoka ^c   Takahashi, Kazuko ^c   Fawi, Gharib ^e   Takahashi, Ryosuke ^b   Fukuyama, Hidenao ^b   Domen, Kazuhisa ^a  

^a HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Kansai Rehabilitation Hospital   (Japan)

^d Nishinomiya Kyoritsu Rehabilitation Hospital   (Japan)

^e Sohag University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

hemiparesis; rehabilitation; repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation; stroke; use dependent plasticity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FINGER; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; STROKE PATIENT; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; WRIST;

ADULT; ARM; CHRONIC DISEASE; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PARESIS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; STROKE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 78049481232     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awq193     Document Type: Article

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