Mesencephalic corticospinal atrophy predicts baseline deficit but not response to unilateral or bilateral arm training in chronic stroke

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 81-87

  Globas, Christoph ^a,b,c,f   Lam, Judith M ^a,c   Zhang, Weihong ^d   Imanbayev, Anuar ^d   Hertler, Benjamin ^a   Becker, Clemens ^b   Whitall, Jill ^e   McCombe Waller, Sandy ^e   Mori, Susumu ^d   Hanley, Daniel F ^d   Luft, Andreas R ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ROBERT BOSCH HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Corticospinal tract; Impairment; Lesion; Rehabilitation therapy; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BILATERAL ARM TRAINING WITH RHYTHMIC AUDITORY CUEING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DOSE MATCHED THERAPEUTIC EXERCISE; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; MALE; MESENCEPHALIC CORTICOSPINAL ATROPHY; MESENCEPHALON; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POST HOC ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STROKE; STROKE PATIENT; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

EID: 79953837285     PISSN: 15459683     EISSN: 15526844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1545968310382001     Document Type: Article

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