Pure stimulus-sensitive truncal myoclonus of propriospinal origin

Movement Disorders

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 87-90

  Schulze Bonhage, A ^a   Knott, H ^a   Ferbert, A ^a  

^a KLINIKUM KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Myoclonus; Propriospinal; Stimulus sensitive

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN PRODUCTION; INFLAMMATION; MYOCLONUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; REFLEX; SPINAL CORD; SPINE; VELOCITY;

ABDOMINAL MUSCLES; BACK; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MECHANORECEPTORS; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOCLONUS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PROPRIOCEPTION; REACTION TIME; RECRUITMENT, NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL NERVES;

EID: 0030026760     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.870110116     Document Type: Article

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