Transcranial direct current stimulation for motor recovery of upper limb function after stroke

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 47, Issue , 2014, Pages 245-259

  Lüdemann Podubecká, Jitka ^a   Bösl, Kathrin ^a   Rothhardt, Sandra ^a   Verheyden, Geert ^b   Nowak, Dennis Alexander ^a,c  

^a Klinik Kipfenberg   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Motor recovery; Stroke; Transcranial direct current stimulation; Upper limb

Indexed keywords

ARM DISEASE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DISEASE SEVERITY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HAND MOVEMENT; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROIMAGING; PATIENT SAFETY; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; ROBOTICS; STUDY DESIGN; THERAPY EFFECT; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; ARM; CONVALESCENCE; MOTOR CORTEX; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; STROKE;

HUMANS; MOTOR CORTEX; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; STROKE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 84907811054     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: 18737528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2014.07.022     Document Type: Review

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