Enduring Poststroke Motor Functional Improvements by a Well-Timed Combination of Motor Rehabilitative Training and Cortical Stimulation in Rats

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 143-154

  O'Bryant, Amber J ^a   Adkins, Deanna L ^b   Sitko, Austen A ^a   Combs, Hannah L ^a   Nordquist, Sarah K ^a   Jones, Theresa A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

constraint induced movement therapy; facilitative stimulation; ischemia; motor cortex; motor skill learning; recovery of function

Indexed keywords

MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 2;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN SIZE; CELL PLASTICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORPUS STRIATUM; CORTICAL STIMULATION; CRANIECTOMY; CYTOARCHITECTURE; DENDRITIC CELL; ELECTRODE IMPLANT; ELECTRODE IMPLANTATION; ENDURANCE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOTOR REHABILITATIVE TRAINING; NEUROREHABILITATION; NONHUMAN; RAT; ANIMAL; COMPLICATION; DISEASE MODEL; ELECTROTHERAPY; KINESIOTHERAPY; LONG EVANS RAT; MOTOR CORTEX; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; STROKE; STROKE REHABILITATION; TIME FACTOR;

ANIMALS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; EXERCISE THERAPY; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; STROKE; STROKE REHABILITATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84955615639     PISSN: 15459683     EISSN: 15526844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1545968314562112     Document Type: Article

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