Intracortical excitability in the hand motor representation in hand dystonia and blepharospasm

Movement Disorders

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1017-1025

  Sommer, Martin ^a   Ruge, Diane ^a,c   Tergau, Frithjof ^a   Beuche, Wolfgang ^a,d   Altenmüller, Eckart ^b   Paulus, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b Hanover University of Music and Drama   (Germany)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d Klinikum St Georg   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dystonia; Intracortical excitability; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN;

ADULT; AGED; BLEPHAROSPASM; BODY MOVEMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DYSTONIA; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FACILITATION; FEMALE; FINGER; HAND MOVEMENT; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE EXCITABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; BLEPHAROSPASM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DYSTONIA; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL INHIBITION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0036764606     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.10205     Document Type: Review

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