Familial cortical myoclonic tremor as a unique form of cortical reflex myoclonus

Movement Disorders

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 370-377

  Terada, Kiyohito ^a   Ikeda, Akio ^a   Mima, Tatsuya ^a   Kimura, Kaku ^a   Nagahama, Yasuhiro ^a   Kamioka, Yu ^a   Murone, Ikuo ^b   Kimura, Jun ^a   Shibasaki, Hiroshi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Ohshima Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cortical reflex myoclonus; Cortical tremor; Familial cortical myoclonic tremor; Jerk locked back averaging; Movement related cortical potentials

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEMENTIA; EFFERENT NERVE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; LEG; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MYOCLONUS; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEX; TREMOR; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; ANTICONVULSANTS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CLONAZEPAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCLONUS; PEDIGREE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REFLEX; VALPROIC ACID;

EID: 0030914780     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.870120316     Document Type: Article

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