Functional connectivity in relation to motor performance and recovery after stroke

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue MARCH 2011, 2011, Pages

  Westlake, Kelly P ^a   Nagarajan, Srikantan S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Functional connectivity; Neuroimaging; Neuroplasticity; Recovery of function; Stroke

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FUNCTION; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PREDICTION; REST; REVIEW; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; STROKE; STROKE PATIENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84856203462     PISSN: 16625137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2011.00008     Document Type: Review

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