Assessment of upper and lower motor neurons in Kennedy's disease: Implications for corticomotoneuronal PSTH studies

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 299-306

  Weber, Markus ^a   Eisen, Andrew ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

ALS; Corticomotoneuronal system; Kennedy's disease; Magnetic stimulation; Motor unit

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANTERIOR HORN CELL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; KENNEDY DISEASE; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; PERISTIMULUS TIME HISTOGRAM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; HUMANS; MAGNETICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0033041668     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(199903)22:3<299::AID-MUS2>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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