Neurophysiological investigations in patients with primary writing tremor

Movement Disorders

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1336-1340

  Modugno, Nicola ^a,c   Nakamura, Yusaka ^a,c   Bestman, Sven ^b   Curra, Antonio ^a,c   Berardelli, Alfredo ^a,c   Rothwell, John ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

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

^c IRCCS NEUROMED   (Italy)

Author keywords

Essential tremor; Primary writing tremor; Reciprocal inhibition; Transcranial magnetic stimulation; Writer's cramp

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DYSTONIA; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMAN; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MUSCLE CRAMP; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIMARY WRITING TREMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL NERVE; SPINAL CORD; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREMOR; WRITER CRAMP;

AGED; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DYSTONIC DISORDERS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; H-REFLEX; HANDWRITING; HUMANS; MAGNETICS; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; RADIAL NERVE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TACHYCARDIA, PAROXYSMAL; TREMOR;

EID: 0036869450     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.10292     Document Type: Article

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