Gait variability and basal ganglia disorders: Stride-to-stride variations of gait cycle timing in Parkinson's disease and Huntington's disease

Movement Disorders

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 428-437

  Hausdorff, Jeffrey M ^a,d   Cudkowicz, Merit E ^b,d   Firtion, Renée ^a,c   Wei, Jeanne Y ^a,d   Goldberger, Ary L ^a,c,d  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Boston University   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Gait analysis; Motor control; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; GAIT; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

NASA DISCIPLINE CARDIOPULMONARY; NON-NASA CENTER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BASAL GANGLIA; BASAL GANGLIA DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PARKINSON DISEASE; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0031920861     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.870130310     Document Type: Article

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