Rehabilitation intervention in animal model can improve neuromotor and cognitive functions after traumatic brain injury: Pilot study

Physiological Research

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 367-375

  Lippert Gruner M ^a,c   Magele M ^b   Svestkova O ^c   Angerova Y ^c   Ester Bode, T ^b   Angelov, D N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Brain trauma recovery; Enriched environment; Multisensory rehabilitation model

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959267999     PISSN: 08628408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.33549/physiolres.931816     Document Type: Article

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