A Longitudinal Study of Hand Motor Recovery after Sub-Acute Stroke: A Study Combined fMRI with Diffusion Tensor Imaging

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Wei, Wenjuan ^a   Bai, Lijun ^a   Wang, Jun ^b   Dai, Ruwei ^a   Tong, Raymond Kai yu ^d   Zhang, Yumei ^c   Song, Zheng ^b   Jiang, Wen ^c   Shi, Chuanying ^c   Li, Mengyuan ^c   Ai, Lin ^c   Tian, Jie ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAPSULA INTERNA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84878415735     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064154     Document Type: Article

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