Stroke rehabilitation using noninvasive cortical stimulation: Motor deficit

Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 949-972

  Ayache, Samar S ^a,b   Farhat, Wassim H ^a,b   Zouari, Hela G ^a,b,c   Hosseini, Hassan ^a,b   Mylius, Veit ^a   Lefaucheur, Jean Pascal ^a,b,d  

^a FACULTÉ DE MÉDECINE   (France)

^b HENRI MONDOR HOSPITAL   (France)

^c HABIB BOURGUIBA HOSPITAL   (Tunisia)

^d PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

cortical excitability; motor deficit; neuromodulation; stroke; theta burst stimulation; transcranial direct current stimulation; transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO;

BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; LIMB MOVEMENT; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NONINVASIVE CORTICAL STIMULATION; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; REHABILITATION CARE; REVIEW; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; EXERCISE THERAPY; HUMANS; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SKILLS DISORDERS; NERVE NET; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; PARALYSIS; PARESIS; STROKE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84866650138     PISSN: 14737175     EISSN: 17448360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/ern.12.83     Document Type: Review

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