The coexistence of bradykinesia and chorea in huntington's disease and its implications for theories of basal ganglia control of movement

Brain

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 1988, Pages 223-244

  Thompson, P D ^a   Berardelli, A ^a   Rothwell, J C ^a   Day, B L ^a   Dick, J P R ^a   Benecke, R ^a   Marsden, C D ^a  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACLOFEN; PIMOZIDE; SULPIRIDE; TETRABENAZINE; THIOPROPAZATE; TIAPRIDE;

BASAL GANGLION; BRADYKINESIA; CHOREA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MYOTATIC REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ADULT; AGED; BASAL GANGLIA; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MOVEMENT; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; REFLEX, STRETCH; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; VOLITION; WRIST;

EID: 0023880409     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/111.2.223     Document Type: Article

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