Stroke
Conditions
Interventions
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Healthy subjects: healthy adult volunteers. Stroke patients: Chronic stroke patients (more than 3 months after the onset) who were inpatients and outpatients of Tohoku University Hospital.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Subjects with metal in cranium, trauma or operation of brain, intracardiac lines, increased intracranial pressure, pregnancy, childhood, heart disease, cardiac pacemaker, medication pump, tricyclic anti-depressants, neuroleptics, febrile convulsion, epilepsy, family history of epilepsy.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Healthy subjects: Direction of transcranial magnetic stimulation-induced upper limb movement Stroke patients: Direction of transcranial magnetic stimulation-induced upper limb movement of the paretic side | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Healthy subjects: Excitability of cortico-spinal tract Stroke patients: Excitability of cortico-spinal tract | — |
Countries
Japan
Contacts
Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation