Author/Editor		Cicinelli, P; Traversa, R; Filippi, MM; Palmieri, MG; Oliveri, M; Pasqualetti, P; Rossini, PM
Title		Follow-up of motor cortex excitability in the "affected" and "unaffected" hemispheres in stroke
Type		članek
Source		In: Stalberg EV, de Weerd AW, Zidar J, editors. ECCN 98. 9th European congress of clinical neurophysiology; 1998 Jun 4-7; Ljubljana. Bologna: Monduzzi Editore,
Publication year		1998
Volume		str. 101-6
Language		eng
Abstract		We analysed motor cortex excitability during focal transcranial magnetic stimulation (TCS) in both affected (AH) and unaffected (UH) hemispheres of 20 monohemispheric stroke patientsevaluated at 2 (T1 session) and 4 (T2 session) months from stroke. AH was less excitablethan UH in T1 with an increase in T2. In AH, MEPs amplitude diminished in T1 improving in T2. In T2, when the excitability threshold (ETh) of AH improved, UH excitability decreased. It futher increased when the AH persisted to be unexcitable. This phenomenon was combined with clinical improvement. Recovery from AH hypoexcitability with progressive "balancing" of the UH excitability represents a possible prognostic parameter for clinical outcome.
Descriptors		NEUROPHYSIOLOGY CEREBRAL INFARCTION PROGNOSIS MOTOR CORTEX EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR