Brain-computer interface boosts motor imagery practice during stroke recovery

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 851-865

  Pichiorri, Floriana ^a,b   Morone, Giovanni ^a   Petti, Manuela ^a,b   Toppi, Jlenia ^a,b   Pisotta, Iolanda ^a   Molinari, Marco ^a   Paolucci, Stefano ^a   Inghilleri, Maurizio ^b   Astolfi, Laura ^a,b   Cincotti, Febo ^a,b   Mattia, Donatella ^a  

^a Santa Lucia Foundation Institute of Hospitalization and Scientific Care   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARM; ARTICLE; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONVALESCENCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; IMAGERY; MALE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE PATIENT; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STROKE;

AGED; BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACES; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGERY (PSYCHOTHERAPY); MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; STROKE;

EID: 84928139171     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: 15318249     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.24390     Document Type: Article

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