Serial treatments of primed low-frequency rTMS in stroke: Characteristics of responders vs. nonresponders

Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 323-335

  Carey, James R ^a   Deng, Huiqiong ^a   Gillick, Bernadette T ^a   Cassidy, Jessica M ^a   Anderson, David C ^a   Zhang, Lei ^a   Thomas, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Posterior limb internal capsule; Primary motor area; Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; BRAIN DAMAGE; CAPSULA INTERNA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; FEMALE; HAND FUNCTION; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; PARESIS; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRESERVATION; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPETITIVE TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; UPPER EXTREMITY FUGL MEYER;

POSTERIOR LIMB INTERNAL CAPSULE; PRIMARY MOTOR AREA; REPETITIVE TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; STROKE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SKILLS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; STROKE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84895890306     PISSN: 09226028     EISSN: 18783627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/RNN-130358     Document Type: Article

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