Modulation of brain plasticity in stroke: A novel model for neurorehabilitation

Nature Reviews Neurology

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 597-608

  Di Pino, Giovanni ^a   Pellegrino, Giovanni ^a   Assenza, Giovanni ^a   Capone, Fioravante ^a   Ferreri, Florinda ^a   Formica, Domenico ^a   Ranieri, Federico ^a   Tombini, Mario ^a   Ziemann, Ulf ^b   Rothwell, John C ^c   Di Lazzaro, Vincenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONNECTOME; CONVALESCENCE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NEUROMODULATION; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REHABILITATION CARE; REVIEW; STRATIFIED SAMPLE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; BRAIN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; STROKE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

BRAIN; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; STROKE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84926520377     PISSN: 17594758     EISSN: 17594766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneurol.2014.162     Document Type: Review

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