Finding an optimal rehabilitation paradigm after stroke: Enhancing fiber growth and training of the brain at the right moment

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue JUNE, 2014, Pages

  Wahl, Anna Sophia ^a,b   Schwab, Martin E ^a,b  

^a University of Zurich Brain Research Institute   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Critical time window; Nogo A; Plasticity; Rehabilitation; Stroke; Training

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; CHONDROITIN ABC LYASE; ERYTHROPOIETIN; NOGO A ANTIBODY; OZANEZUMAB; PLACEBO;

BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CONSTRAINT INDUCED THERAPY; CORTICAL REORGANIZATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PREMOTOR CORTEX; REHABILITATION CARE; REVIEW; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SYNAPTOGENESIS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84903470792     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00381     Document Type: Review

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