Abnormalities of the balance between inhibition and excitation in the motor cortex of patients with cortical myoclonus

Brain

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 309-317

  Brown, P ^a,b   Ridding, M C ^b   Werhahn, K J ^b   Rothwell, J C ^b   Marsden, C D ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cortical myoclonus; Cortico cortical inhibition; Motor threshold; Transcallosal inhibition

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MYOCLONUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CORPUS CALLOSUM; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MYOCLONUS; NEURAL INHIBITION; REFERENCE VALUES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0029919293     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/119.1.309     Document Type: Article

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