Stimulus-sensitive myoclonus in akinetic-rigid syndromes

Brain

Volumn 115, Issue 6, 1992, Pages 1875-1888

  Chen, R ^a   Ashby, P ^a   Lang, A E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AKINESIA; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYNDROME; FACILITATION; FINGER; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MUSCLE REFLEX; MYOCLONUS; NERVE DEGENERATION; ORBICULARIS OCULI MUSCLE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN STIMULATION; STARTLE REFLEX;

AGED; ATROPHY; BASAL GANGLIA DISEASES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; HUMAN; MAGNETICS; MIDDLE AGE; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; MYOCLONUS; PARKINSON DISEASE; REFLEX; SKIN; STARTLE REACTION; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; SYNDROME;

EID: 0027093628     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/115.6.1875     Document Type: Article

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