Emerging therapies in neurorehabilitation

CONTINUUM Lifelong Learning in Neurology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 530-544

  Dombovy, Mary L ^a,b  

^a UNITY HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ALBUMIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIOXIDANT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CENTRAL STIMULANT AGENT; CHELATING AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; FLUOROCARBON; GANGLIOSIDE; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; MAGNESIUM; OPIATE ANTAGONIST; OSMOTIC AGENT; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; POTASSIUM CHANNEL STIMULATING AGENT; PROSTANOID; SCAVENGER; SEROTONIN AGONIST; SEROTONIN ANTAGONIST; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; STATIN; UNINDEXED DRUG; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; BODY WEIGHT; CASE REPORT; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; CHINESE MEDICINE; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; HEMIPARESIS; HEMODILUTION; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; HYPOTHERMIA; LANGUAGE; NEUROLOGY; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REHABILITATION MEDICINE; REVIEW; ROBOTICS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TEMPERATURE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

EID: 79959339152     PISSN: 10802371     EISSN: 15386899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.CON.0000399071.61943.e3     Document Type: Review

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