Combining Fluoxetine and rTMS in Poststroke Motor Recovery: A Placebo-Controlled Double-Blind Randomized Phase 2 Clinical Trial

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2019, Pages 643-655

  Bonin Pinto, Camila ^a,b,c   Morales Quezada, Leon ^a,c   de Toledo Piza, Polyana Vulcano ^a,c,f   Zeng, Dian ^a,c   Saleh Vélez, Faddi Ghassan ^a,c,d   Ferreira, Isadora Santos ^a,c   Lucena, Pedro Henrique ^a,c   Duarte, Dante ^a,c   Lopes, Fernanda ^a,c   El Hagrassy, Mirret M ^a,c   Rizzo, Luiz Vicente ^c   Camargo, Erica C ^a,e   Lin, David J ^a,e   Mazwi, Nicole ^a,c,e   Wang, Qing Mei ^a,e,f,g   Black Schaffer, Randie ^a,c,e   Fregni, Felipe ^a,c,e  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c and Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f HOSPITAL ISRAELITA ALBERT EINSTEIN   (Brazil)

^g BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

cortical excitability; fluoxetine; motor recovery; recovery of function; stroke; transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

FLUOXETINE; PLACEBO; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL EXCITABILITY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FACILITATION; FEMALE; FUGL MEYER ASSESSMENT; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; JEBSEN TAYLOR HAND FUNCTION SCALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR EVOKED POTENTIAL; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; RANKIN SCALE; REPETITIVE TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; SCORING SYSTEM; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; CONVALESCENCE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PARESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPPER LIMB;

COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; FLUOXETINE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PARESIS; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS; STROKE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 85068840090     PISSN: 15459683     EISSN: 15526844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1545968319860483     Document Type: Article

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