Basal ganglia and cerebellar impairment differentially affect the amplitude and time scaling during the performance of forearm step tracking movements

Electromyography and Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 121-128

  Hefter, H ^a   Brown, S H ^c   Cooke, J D ^b   Freund, H J ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; CEREBELLUM DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECELERATION; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PARKINSON DISEASE; VELOCITY;

ADULT; BASAL GANGLIA; CEREBELLAR DISEASES; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; PARKINSON DISEASE, SECONDARY;

EID: 0029963867     PISSN: 0301150X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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