Cortical reflex negative myoclonus

Brain

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 1994, Pages 477-486

  Shibasaki, Hiroshi ^a   Ikeda, Akio ^a   Nagamine, Takashi ^a   Mima, Tatsuya ^a   Terada, Kiyohito ^a   Nishitani, Nobuyuki ^a   Kanda, Masutaro ^a   Takano, Shin ^b   Hanazono, Tsutomu ^b   Kohara, Nobuo ^b   Kaji, Ryuji ^b   Kimura, Jun ^b  

^a Departments of Brain Pathophysiology   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asterixis; Cortical myoclonus; Cortical reflex negative myoclonus; Negative myoclonus; Transcortical reflex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; FLAPPING TREMOR; HUMAN; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MYOCLONUS; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; NERVE STIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MYOCLONUS; REFLEX;

EID: 0028338504     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/117.3.477     Document Type: Article

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