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Longitudinal fMRI study for locomotor recovery in patients with stroke.

Kim YH, You SH, Kwon YH, Hallett M, Kim JH, Jang SH

Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

The authors investigated bihemispheric motor network reorganization supporting locomotor recovery after stroke over time. They determined longitudinal changes in locomotor function and fMRI in 10 stroke patients at the subacute stage and the chronic stage. The results suggest that the bihemispheric reorganization mechanism underlying locomotor recovery evolved from the ipsilateral (contralesional) primary sensorimotor cortex (SM1) activation at the subacute stage to the contralateral (ipsilesional) SM1 activation at the chronic stage.

Published 25 July 2006 in Neurology, 67(2): 330-3.
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