Impaired motor cortical inhibition in Parkinson's disease: Motor unit responses to transcranial magnetic stimulation

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 138, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 477-483

  Kleine, Bert U ^a,b   Praamstra, Peter ^a,c   Stegeman, Dick F ^a,b   Zwarts, Machiel J ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cortical excitability; High density surface electromyography; Motor unit firing; Parkinson's disease; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELBOW FLEXION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXCITABILITY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR UNIT; PARKINSON DISEASE; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AGED; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; PARKINSON DISEASE; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; REACTION TIME; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 0034997280     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210100731     Document Type: Article

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