Cortical myoclonus: Sensorimotor hyperexcitability

Neurology

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 933-942

  Mima, T ^a   Nagamine, T ^a   Nishitani, N ^a   Mikuni, N ^a   Ikeda, A ^a   Fukuyama, H ^a   Takigawa, T ^b   Kimura, J ^a   Shibasaki, H ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UTANO NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MOTOR CORTEX; MYOCLONUS; NERVE STIMULATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX;

EID: 0031921360     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.50.4.933     Document Type: Article

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