Facilitory paratonia and frontal lobe functioning

Neurology

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 968-971

  Beversdorf, David Q ^a   Heilman, Kenneth M ^b  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSTONIA; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR COORDINATION; MUSCLE TONE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031693857     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.51.4.968     Document Type: Article

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