Structural remodeling of white matter in the contralesional hemisphere is correlated with early motor recovery in patients with subcortical infarction

Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 309-319

  Liu, Gang ^a   Dang, Chao ^a   Chen, Xinran ^a   Xing, Shihui ^a   Dani, Krishna ^b   Xie, Chuanmiao ^a   Peng, Kangqiang ^a   Zhang, Jingna ^c   Li, Jingjing ^a   Zhang, Jian ^a   Chen, Li ^a   Pei, Zhong ^a   Zeng, Jinsheng ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

diffusion tensor imaging; motor recovery; neural plasticity; Subcortical infarction; white matter

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; LIMB; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROIMAGING; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RISK FACTOR; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SUBCORTEX; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; WHITE MATTER; AGED; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; IMAGE PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; TIME FACTORS; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84937430554     PISSN: 09226028     EISSN: 18783627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/RNN-140442     Document Type: Article

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