Left-right differences in motor thresholds after stimulation of the globus pallidus before pallidotomy

Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 159-162

  Beric A ^a,b   Sterio, D ^a   Dogali, M ^a   Kelly, P ^a  

^a NYU HOSPITAL FOR JOINT DISEASES   (United States)

^b Box 65 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Handedness; Internal capsule; Motor thresholds; Pallidotomy; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAPSULA INTERNA; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HUMAN; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SEX DIFFERENCE; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY;

EID: 0030879209     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.63.2.159     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Yakovlev PI, Rakic P. Patterns of decussation of bulbar pyramids and distribution of pyramidal tracts on two sides of the spinal cord. Trans Am Neurol Assoc 1966;91:366-7.
2. Kertesz A, Geschwind N. Patterns of pyramidal decussation and their relationship to handedness. Arch Neurol 1971;24: 326-32.
3. Macdonnell RAL, Shapiro BE, Chiappa KH, Helmers SL, Cros D, Day RJ, Shahani BT. Hemispheric threshold differences for motor evoked potentials produced by magnetic coil stimulation. Neurology 1991;41:1441-4.
4. Triggs WJ, Calvania R, Macdonnell RAL, Cros D, Chiappa KH. Physiological motor asymmetry in human handedness: evidence from transcranial magnetic stimulation. Brain Res 1994;636:270-6.
5. Dogali M, Fazzini E, Kolodny E, Eidelberg D, Sterio D, Devinsky O, Berić A. Stereotactic ventral pallidotomy for Parkinson's disease. Neurology 1995;45:753-61.
6. UPDRS Development Committee. Unified Parkinson's disease rating scale. In: Fahn S, Marsden CD, Clane DB, Goldstein M, eds. Recent developments in Parkinson's disease. Vol 2. Florham Park, NJ: Macmillan, 1987:153-64.
7. CAPIT Committee. Core assessment program for intracerebral transplantation (CAPIT). Mov Disord 1992;7:2-13.
8. Sterio D, Berić A, Dogali M, Fazzini E, Alfaro G, Devinsky O. Neurophysiological properties of pallidal neurons in Parkinson's disease. Ann Neurol 1994;35:586-91.
9. Gescheider GA. Psychophysics: methods and theory. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associate Publishers, 1976:1-177.
10. Berić A. Transcranial electrical and magnetic stimulation. In: Devinsky O, Berić A, Dogali M, eds. Electrical and magnetic stimulation of the brain and spinal cord, advances in neurology. Vol 63. New York: Raven Press, 1993:29-42.
11. Nathan PW, Smith MC, Deacon P. The corticospinal tracts in man. Brain 1990;113:303-24.
12. Wilson SA, Thickbroom GW, Mastaglia FL. Transcranial magnetic stimulation mapping of the motor cortex in normal subjects. J Neurol Sci 1993;118:134-44.
13. Goode DJ, Glenn S, Manning AA Middleton JF. Lateral asymmetry of the Hoffmann reflex: relation to cortical laterality. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1980;43:831-5.
14. Tan U. Relationship between hand skill and the excitability of motoneurones innervating the postural soleus muscle in human subjects. Int J Neurosci 1985;26:289-300.
15. Tan U. The H-reflex recovery curve from the wrist: lateralization of motoneuronal excitability in relation to handedness in normal subjects. Int J Neurosci 1989;48:271-84.
16. Kim S-G, Ashe J, Hendrich K, Ellermann JM, Merkle H, Ugurbil K, Georgopoulos AP. Functional magnetic resonance imaging of motor cortex: hemispheric asymmetry and handedness. Science 1993;261:615-7.
17. Geschwind N, Levitsky W. Human brain: left-right asymmetries in temporal speech region. Science 1968;161:186-7.
18. Iaccino J. Asymmetrical processing of tachistoscopic inputs in undergraduates across sex, handedness, fieldside, and fixation instructions. Percept Mot Skills 1990;70:1203-13.
19. Geschwind N, Galaburda AM. Cerebral lateralization. Biological mechanisms, associations and pathology: a hypothesis and a program for research. Arch Neurol 1985;42:428-59.
20. Tiffin J, Asher EJ. The Purdue pegboard: norms and studies of reliability and variability. J Appl Psychol 1948;32;234-47.
21. Gardner RA, Broman M. The Purdue pegboard: normative data on 1334 school children. J Clin Neuropsychol 1979;1:156-62.
22. Mathiowetz V, Rogers SL, Dowe-Keval M, Donahoe L, Rennells C. The Purdue pegboard: norms for 14 to 19 year olds. Am J Occup Ther 1986;3:174-9.
23. Peters M, Servos P, Day R. Marked sex differences on a fine motor skill task disappear when finger size is used as covariate. J Appl Psychol 1990;75:87-90.
24. Genetta-Wadley A, Swirsky-Sacchetti T. Sex differences and handedness in hemispheric lateralization of tactile-spatial functions. Percept Mot Skills 1990;70:579-90.
25. Witelson SF. Hand and sex differences in the isthmus and genu of the human corpus callosum. Brain 1989;112:799-835.
26. Witelson SF, Kigar DL. Sylvian fissure morphology and asymmetry in men and women: bilateral differences in relation to handedness in men. J Comp Neurol 1992;323: 326-40.
27. Strauss E, Wada J, Hunter M. Sex-related differences in cognitive consequences of early left-hemisphere lesions. J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 1992;14:738-48.