Changes in functional brain organization and behavioral correlations after rehabilitative therapy using a brain-computer interface

Frontiers in Neuroengineering

Volumn 7, Issue JUL, 2014, Pages

  Young, Brittany M ^a   Nigogosyan, Zack ^a   Walton, Léo M ^a,b   Song, Jie ^a,b   Nair, Veena A ^a   Grogan, Scott W ^a   Tyler, Mitchell E ^b   Edwards, Dorothy F ^a   Caldera, Kristin ^c   Sattin, Justin A ^c   Williams, Justin C ^a,b   Prabhakaran, Vivek ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

BCI therapy; Brain computer interface; fMRI; Laterality index; LI; Stroke rehabilitation; UE motor recovery

Indexed keywords

ACTION RESEARCH ARM TEST; ADULT; AGED; ARM; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLOSED LOOP NEUROFEEDBACK BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE DEVICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FINGER TAPPING TEST; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LATERALITY INDEX; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL DEVICE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NINE HOLE PEG TEST; REHABILITATION CARE; STROKE IMPACT SCALE; STROKE PATIENT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84904286830     PISSN: 16626443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fneng.2014.00026     Document Type: Article

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