Recovery of post stroke proximal arm function, driven by complex neuroplastic bilateral brain activation patterns and predicted by baseline motor dysfunction severity

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue July, 2015, Pages 1-13

  Pundik, Svetlana ^a,b   McCabe, Jessica P ^b   Hrovat, Ken ^b   Fredrickson, Alice Erica ^b   Tatsuoka, Curtis ^a   Feng, I Jung ^a   Daly, Janis J ^c,d  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LOUIS STOKES CLEVELAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Brain Rehabilitation Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic stroke; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Motor learning; Motor recovery; Motor rehabilitation; Neuroplasticity; Shoulder elbow movement task; Upper extremity motor function

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MOTOR ABILITIES TEST; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FUNCTION TEST; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; REHABILITATION CARE; SHOULDER; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; SURVIVOR; TASK PERFORMANCE; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

EID: 84937856788     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00394     Document Type: Article

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