Targeting Unlesioned Pharyngeal Motor Cortex Improves Swallowing in Healthy Individuals and After Dysphagic Stroke

BACKGROUND & AIMS: Patients with stroke experience swallowing problems (dysphagia); increased risk of aspiration pneumonia, malnutrition, and dehydration; and have increased mortality. We investigated the behavioral and neurophysiological effects of a new neurostimulation technique (paired assoc...

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Published in:Gastroenterology
Main Authors: MICHOU, EMILIA, MISTRY, SATISH, JEFFERSON, SAMANTHA, SINGH, SALIL, ROTHWELL, JOHN, HAMDY, SHAHEEN
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2011
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4300844/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21963761
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1053/j.gastro.2011.09.040
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