Reciprocal facilitation of motor evoked potentials immediately before voluntary movements in Parkinson's disease

Electromyography and Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 201-206

  Imai, T ^a   Yamamoto, T ^a   Ohkubo, Y ^a   Kashiwagi, M ^a   Chiba, S ^a   Matsumoto, H ^a  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FLEXOR REFLEX; FOREARM; HUMAN; MALE; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PARKINSON DISEASE; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ADULT; AGED; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PARKINSON DISEASE; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0033034025     PISSN: 0301150X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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