The effectiveness of 1Hz rTMS over the primary motor area of the unaffected hemisphere to improve hand function after stroke depends on hemispheric dominance

Brain Stimulation

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 823-830

  Lüdemann Podubecká, Jitka ^a   Bösl, Kathrin ^a   Theilig, Steven ^a   Wiederer, Ralf ^a   Nowak, Dennis Alexander ^a,b  

^a Klinik Kipfenberg   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hand dominance; Motor impairment; Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation; Stroke; Upper limb

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EXCITABILITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HAND FUNCTION; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VERY ELDERLY; HAND; MOTOR CORTEX; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; STROKE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; STROKE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84937519267     PISSN: 1935861X     EISSN: 18764754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2015.02.004     Document Type: Article

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