Use it and/or lose it-experience effects on brain remodeling across time after stroke

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue JUNE, 2014, Pages

  Allred, Rachel P ^a   Kim, Soo Young ^b   Jones, Theresa A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Learned non use; Motor cortex; Motor skill learning; Restorative plasticity; Upper extremity function

Indexed keywords

BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONSTRAINT INDUCED THERAPY; EARLY INTERVENTION; GLIA CELL; HUMAN; LEG; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PARALYSIS; PHYSIOTHERAPY; REHABILITATION CARE; REVIEW; TIME TO TREATMENT; VASCULARIZATION;

EID: 84903448189     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00379     Document Type: Review

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