Coherence between cerebellar thalamus, cortex and muscle in man. Cerebellar thalamus interactions

Brain

Volumn 123, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1459-1470

  Marsden, J F ^a   Ashby, P ^d   Limousin Dowsey, P ^a   Rothwell, J C ^a   Brown, P ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^c MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Coherence; Essential tremor; Motor thalamus; Multiple sclerosis; Thalamic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BRAIN CORTEX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MUSCLE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE STIMULATION; OSCILLATION; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; THALAMOTOMY; THALAMUS; TREMOR;

EID: 0033931418     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/123.7.1459     Document Type: Article

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