Action observation as a tool for neurorehabilitation to moderate motor deficits and aphasia following stroke

Neural Regeneration Research

Volumn 7, Issue 26, 2012, Pages 2063-2074

  Ertelt, Denis ^a   Binkofski, Ferdinand ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aphasia; Aphasic deficits; Mirror neuron system; Motor deficits; Motor system; Neurorehabilitation; Paresis; Procedural learning; Stroke

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880067030     PISSN: 16735374     EISSN: 18767958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1673-5374.2012.26.008     Document Type: Article

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