Motor cortex excitability and connectivity in chronic stroke: a multimodal model of functional reorganization

Brain Structure and Function

Volumn 220, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 1093-1107

  Volz, Lukas J ^a,b   Sarfeld, Anna Sophia ^a,b   Diekhoff, Svenja ^a   Rehme, Anne K ^a   Pool, Eva Maria ^a   Eickhoff, Simon B ^c,d   Fink, Gereon R ^b,c   Grefkes, Christian ^a,b,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR NEUROLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^d HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cortical excitability; DCM; Functional reorganization; Stroke; TMS

Indexed keywords

AGED; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONVALESCENCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HAND; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INNERVATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEURONAVIGATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STROKE; TIME; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBRUM; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NERVE NET; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONAVIGATION; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; STROKE; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84891799757     PISSN: 18632653     EISSN: 18632661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-013-0702-8     Document Type: Article

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