Inhibition of the contralesional hemisphere after stroke: Reviewing a few of the building blocks with a focus on animal models

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 218, Issue , 2015, Pages 361-387

  Dancause, Numa ^a,b   Touvykine, Boris ^a   Mansoori, Babak K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Callosum; Contralesional; Inhibition; Interhemispheric; Recovery; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ARM MOVEMENT; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXCITABILITY; HAND MOVEMENT; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; REVIEW; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; ANIMAL; COMPLICATION; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE MODEL; EFFERENT NERVE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; STROKE;

EID: 84955644663     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: 18757855     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/bs.pbr.2015.01.002     Document Type: Chapter

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