Negative myoclonus in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 471-476

  Matsunaga, Kaoru ^a   Uozumi, Takenori ^a   Akamatsu, Naoki ^a   Nagashio, Yoshikuni ^a   Qingrui, Liu ^a   Hashimoto, Tomoko ^a   Tsuji, Sadatoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cortical reflex negative myoclonus; Creutzfeldt Jakob disease; Negative myoclonus; Silent period; Somatosensory evoked potentials; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MYOCLONUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCLONUS;

EID: 0034100242     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-2457(99)00277-1     Document Type: Article

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