Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10742410 | Journal of the Neurological Sciences | 2005 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
In healthy subjects voluntary activation of the ipsilateral hand does not change the excitability of the motor cortex of the non-dominant hemisphere, when the contralateral hand is simultaneously activated. The facilitation of the contralateral hand seems to gate further facilitation by the ipsilateral hand. However, in stroke patients simultaneous activation of both hands causes an additional facilitation compared to activation of the affected hand alone.
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Caroline I.E. Renner, Hartwig Woldag, Ruska Atanasova, Horst Hummelsheim,