Brain parenchymal fraction predicts motor improvement following intensive task-oriented motor rehabilitation for chronic stroke

Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 355-361

  Rickards, Tyler ^a   Taub, Edward ^a   Sterling, Chelsey ^a   Graham, Michael J ^a   Barghi, Ameen ^a   Uswatte, Gitendra ^a   Mark, Victor W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

CI therapy; hemiparesis; neuroimaging; parenchyma; rehabilitation; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN PARENCHYMAL FRACTION; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONSTRAINT INDUCED MOVEMENT THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAY MATTER; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PARENCHYMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REHABILITATION; WHITE MATTER; WOLF MOTOR FUNCTION TEST PERFORMANCE TIME;

AGED; BRAIN INFARCTION; CHRONIC DISEASE; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STROKE;

EID: 84866876835     PISSN: 09226028     EISSN: 18783627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/RNN-2012-110211     Document Type: Article

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