Intracortical inhibition and facilitation are abnormal in Huntington's disease: A paired magnetic stimulation study

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 228, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 87-90

  Abbruzzese, G ^a   Buccolieri, A ^a   Marchese, R ^a   Trompetto, C ^a   Mandich, P ^b   Schieppati, M ^b  

^a Via de Toni 5 16132 ^*  (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Choreic dyskinesias; Cortico cortical inhibition; Huntington's disease; Motor cortex; Paired transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; CHOREA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSKINESIA; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MAGNETICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL INHIBITION;

EID: 0030790647     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00363-7     Document Type: Article

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