Cortical muscle representation in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients: Changes with disease evolution

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1684-1692

  De Carvalho, Mamede ^a   Miranda, Pedro Cavaleiro ^b   Luís, Maria Lourdes Sales ^a   Ducla Soares, Eduardo ^b  

^a HOSPITAL DE SANTA MARIA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS); Mapping; Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS); Upper motor neuron

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE MONOPHOSPHATE DEAMINASE; INOSINE PHOSPHATE;

ADULT; ALPHA NERVE FIBER; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARM; BRAIN MAPPING; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SPINAL CORD; SURAL NERVE;

EID: 0032752884     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(199912)22:12<1684::AID-MUS10>3.0.CO;2-X     Document Type: Article

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