Pathophysiology of chorea and bradykinesia in Huntington's disease

Movement Disorders

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 398-403

  Berardelli, Alfredo ^a,b   Noth, Johannes ^c   Thompson, Philip D ^e   Bollen, Eduard L E M ^f   Currà, Antonio ^a,b   Deuschl, Gunther ^d   Van Dijk, J Gert ^f   Töpper, Rudolf ^c   Schwarz, Michael ^c   Roos, Raymund A C ^f  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b IRCCS NEUROMED   (Italy)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^e ROYAL ADELAIDE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^f LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Huntington's disease; Motor system; Neurophysiology

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

ARM MOVEMENT; BASAL GANGLION; BRADYKINESIA; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CHOREA; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; EYE MOVEMENT; EYELID REFLEX; FRONTAL CORTEX; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; HYPERKINESIA; HYPOKINESIA; INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MEDIAN NERVE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MYOTATIC REFLEX; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; REVIEW; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

BASAL GANGLIA; BRAIN; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; HYPERKINESIS; HYPOKINESIA; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE DEGENERATION; SACCADES; SPINAL CORD; THALAMUS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0033432837     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1531-8257(199905)14:3<398::AID-MDS1003>3.0.CO;2-F     Document Type: Review

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