Blink reflex excitability is abnormal in patients with periodic leg movements in sleep

Movement Disorders

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 710-714

  Briellmann, Regula S ^a,b   Rösler, Kai M ^a   Hess, Christian W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Blink reflex; Periodic leg movements in sleep; Sleep

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APNEA; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITABILITY; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEG MOVEMENT; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; SLEEP;

ADULT; AGED; BLINKING; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; DOPAMINE; FEMALE; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; REACTION TIME; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME;

EID: 0029802422     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.870110617     Document Type: Article

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