Individual recovery profiles of manual dexterity, and relation to corticospinal lesion load and excitability after stroke –a longitudinal pilot study

Neurophysiologie Clinique

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2019, Pages 149-164

  Birchenall, Julia ^a   Térémetz, Maxime ^a,b   Roca, Pauline ^a   Lamy, Jean Charles ^c   Oppenheim, Catherine ^a   Maier, Marc A ^b,d   Mas, Jean Louis ^a   Lamy, Catherine ^a   Baron, Jean Claude ^a   Lindberg, Påvel G ^a,b  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

Corticospinal tract; Force control; Manual dexterity; Stroke; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; CORTICOSPINAL LESION; DISEASE BURDEN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EXCITABILITY; FEMALE; FINGER FORCE CONTROL; FINGER TAPPING RATE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GRIP STRENGTH; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INDEPENDENCE OF FINGER MOVEMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MANUAL DEXTERITY; MOTOR EVOKED POTENTIAL; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE INJURY; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PILOT STUDY; REST MOTOR THRESHOLD; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRACTOGRAPHY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; FINGER; INJURIES; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; STROKE REHABILITATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR SKILLS; PILOT PROJECTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; STROKE; STROKE REHABILITATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 85055748615     PISSN: 09877053     EISSN: 17697131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neucli.2018.10.065     Document Type: Article

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