Injury of the corticoreticular pathway in patients with proximal weakness following cerebral infarct: Diffusion tensor tractography study

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 546, Issue , 2013, Pages 21-25

  Do, Kyung Hee ^a   Yeo, Sang Seok ^a   Lee, Jun ^a   Jang, Sung Ho ^a  

^a Yeungnam University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cerebral infarct; Corticoreticular pathway; Corticoreticulospinal tract; Diffusion tensor imaging; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; AGED; ANKLE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; CORTICORETICULAR PATHWAY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FINGER; HEMIPARESIS; HEMISPHERE; HIP; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SHOULDER; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; WEAKNESS;

AGED; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETICULAR FORMATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84878915478     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2013.04.040     Document Type: Article

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