Exploring the evolution of cortical excitability following acute stroke

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 244-257

  Huynh, William ^a,b   Vucic, Steve ^a   Krishnan, Arun V ^b   Lin, Cindy S Y ^c   Kiernan, Matthew C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

plasticity; stroke; transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)

Indexed keywords

ACUTE UNILATERAL ISCHEMIC STROKE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BARTHEL INDEX; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOMOTONEURONAL EXCITABILITY; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EXCITABILITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUGL MEYER SCORE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HUMAN; INTRACORTICAL EXCITABILITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAGNETIC NEUROSTIMULATOR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION ASSESSMENT; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; NERVE STIMULATOR; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESTING MOTOR THRESHOLD; SCORING SYSTEM; SHORT INTERVAL INTRACORTICAL INHIBITION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUBCORTEX; THRESHOLD TRACKING PAIRED PULSE TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VERY ELDERLY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DISEASE COURSE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE REHABILITATION; TERTIARY CARE CENTER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE; STROKE REHABILITATION; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84958154235     PISSN: 15459683     EISSN: 15526844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1545968315593804     Document Type: Article

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