Potential determinants of efficacy of mirror therapy in stroke patients - A pilot study

Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 421-434

  Brunetti, Maddalena ^a,b,c   Morkisch, Nadine ^a,c   Fritzsch, Claire ^a,c   Mehnert, Jan ^c,d,e   Steinbrink, Jens ^c   Niedeggen, Michael ^b   Dohle, Christian ^a,c  

^a MEDIAN Klinik Berlin Kladow   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^d TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

fNIRS; Mirror therapy; motor recovery; precuneus; stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIRROR THERAPY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARESIS; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE PATIENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; BRAIN; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; ILLUSION; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR EVOKED POTENTIAL; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PROCEDURES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STROKE; UPPER LIMB;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; BRAIN; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARESIS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PILOT PROJECTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; STROKE; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 84940039331     PISSN: 09226028     EISSN: 18783627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/RNN-140421     Document Type: Article

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