Ipsilateral Corticospinal Projections from Noninfarcted Cortex in Hemiplegic Cerebral Palsy

Abstract

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) was used to characterize corticospinal tract development from each hemisphere over the first 2 years in 13 patients with perinatal stroke compared to 46 healthy controls, in a study at University of Newcastle, Newcastle on Tyne, UK; and University of Pisa, Italy.

Keywords

• transcranial magnetic stimulation
• ipsilateral corticospinal axons
• noninfarcted hemisphere