Parkinsonian arm movements as altered by task difficulty

Parkinsonism and Related Disorders

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 215-223

  Weiss, P ^a,c   Stelmach, G E ^a   Adler, C H ^b   Waterman, C ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fitts' law; Force control; Motor programming; Parkinson's disease; Speed scaling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001328273     PISSN: 13538020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1353-8020(96)00026-0     Document Type: Article

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