Contralesional hemisphere control of the proximal paretic upper limb following stroke

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2662-2671

  Bradnam, Lynley V ^a   Stinear, Cathy M ^a   Barber, P Alan ^a   Byblow, Winston D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

corticospinal tract; ipsilateral pathways; magnetic resonance imaging; stroke prediction; transcranial direct current stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CATHODAL TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HEMIPARESIS; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; LIMB WEAKNESS; MALE; MEDICAL DEVICE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PARESIS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STROKE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 84867284381     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr344     Document Type: Article

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