Optimizing recovery potential through simultaneous occupational therapy and non-invasive brain-stimulation using tDCS

Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 411-420

  Nair, Dinesh G ^a   Renga, Vijay ^a   Lindenberg, Robert ^a   Zhu, Lin ^a   Schlaug, Gottfried ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

fMRI; non invasive brain stimulation; Rehabilitation; stroke recovery; tDCS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; PARESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RANGE OF MOTION; STROKE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

ADULT; AGED; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ELECTRODES; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; OXYGEN; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; STROKE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 78650839449     PISSN: 09226028     EISSN: 18783627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/RNN-2011-0612     Document Type: Article

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