Clonic perseveration following thalamofrontal disconnection: A distinctive movement disorder

Movement Disorders

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 378-385

  Fung, Victor S C ^a   Morris, John G L ^a   Leicester, Jonathan ^b   Soo, Y S ^a   Davies, Llewelyn ^b  

^a WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Basal ganglia; Clonic perseveration; Disconnection syndrome; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARM; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; CASE REPORT; CONSCIOUSNESS; FEMALE; HEEL; HUMAN; INFARCTION; LEG; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MYOCLONUS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PASSIVE MOVEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCRATCHING; SEIZURE; SPEECH DISORDER; THALAMUS;

AGED; BASAL GANGLIA; BRAIN DISEASES; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; THALAMUS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0030927567     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.870120317     Document Type: Article

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