Cortical Mechanisms of Mirror Therapy After Stroke
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Cortical mechanisms of mirror therapy after stroke.
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Mirror therapy is a new form of stroke rehabilitation that uses the mirror reflection of the unaffected hand in place of the affected hand to augment movement training. The mechanism of mirror therapy is not known but is thought to involve changes in cerebral organization. We used magnetoencephalography (MEG) to measure changes in cortical activity during mirror trainin...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1545-9683,1552-6844
DOI: 10.1177/1545968314554622