The Reorganization of Resting-State Brain Networks Associated with Motor Imagery Training in Chronic Stroke Patients

IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2019, Pages 2237-2245

  Wang, Hewei ^a   Xu, Guojun ^b   Wang, Xu ^c   Sun, Changhui ^a   Zhu, Bing ^a   Fan, Mingxia ^b   Jia, Jie ^a   Guo, Xiaoli ^c   Sun, Limin ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

clustering coefficient; functional connectivity; functional magnetic resonance imaging; Motor imagery training; stroke rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; FREQUENCY MODULATION; GRAPH THEORY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROMUSCULAR REHABILITATION; PLASTICITY TESTING; RECOVERY;

CLUSTERING COEFFICIENT; FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOTOR IMAGERY; STROKE REHABILITATION;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL OUTCOME; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MOTOR IMAGERY TRAINING; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESTING STATE NETWORK; SPASTICITY; TRAINING; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; IMAGINATION; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REST; STROKE REHABILITATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REST; STROKE; STROKE REHABILITATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 85073668281     PISSN: 15344320     EISSN: 15580210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNSRE.2019.2940980     Document Type: Article

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