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Magnetic Stimulation Of Short Latency Cortical Pathway In Recovery Stage Of Unilateral Subcortical Stroke, Baii-Jia Yang, Wang-Lin Su, Dah-Sen Wei

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

SMagnetic stimulation applied to the scalp over the normal motor cortex caused short latency response of contralateral limb muscles. 12 patients with unilateral subcortical stroke for the first time were selected. They had hemiparesis and good motor recovery up to individual finger movements, although mild weakness and clumsiness of affected limbs were still complainted of. Of the twelve patients (eleven men and one woman) the mean age were 54.8±9.3 years. Lesion sites included basal ganglia, thalamus and corona radiata, with six hemorrhage and six infarction. Time since stroke onset to magnetic stimultation were 19.7±23.3 months. Motor conduction latencies from cortex …