A primate model for studying focal dystonia and repetitive strain injury: Effects on the primary somatosensory cortex

Physical Therapy

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 269-284

  Byl, Nancy N ^a   Merzenich, Michael M ^a   Cheung, Steven ^a   Bedenbaugh, Purvis ^a   Nagarajan, Srikantan S ^a   Jenkins, William M ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Area 3b; Cerebral cortex; Focal dystonia; Hand; Monkey; Repetitive motion injury; Repetitive strain injury; Somatosensory cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; DYSTONIA; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; MONKEY; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; REPETITIVE STRAIN INJURY; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 0031049695     PISSN: 00319023     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ptj/77.3.269     Document Type: Article

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