Improving ideomotor limb apraxia by electrical stimulation of the left posterior parietal cortex

Brain

Volumn 138, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 428-439

  Bolognini, Nadia ^a,b   Convento, Silvia ^a   Banco, Elisabetta ^b   Mattioli, Flavia ^c   Tesio, Luigi ^b,d   Vallar, Giuseppe ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO AUXOLOGICO ITALIANO   (Italy)

^c SPEDALI CIVILI   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Apraxia; Motor cortex; Parietal lobe; Stroke rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GESTURE; HAND FUNCTION; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; IDEOMOTOR APRAXIA; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE STIMULATOR; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PARIETAL LOBE; PLANNING; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SHAM PROCEDURE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; APRAXIA, IDEOMOTOR; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPEECH; STROKE;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; APRAXIA, IDEOMOTOR; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GESTURES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPEECH; STROKE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

EID: 84922379887     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awu343     Document Type: Article

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