Role of the contralesional hemisphere in post-stroke recovery of upper extremity motor function

Frontiers in Neurology

Volumn 6, Issue OCT, 2015, Pages

  Buetefisch, Cathrin M ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional magnetic resonance image; Motor cortex reorganization; Motor stroke recovery; Neurorehabilitation of motor function; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ARM; ARM MOVEMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN REGION; CONTRALESIONAL HEMISPHERE; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; REHABILITATION CARE; REVIEW; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 84946564750     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16642295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2015.00214     Document Type: Review

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