Impairment of individual finger movements in Parkinson's disease

Movement Disorders

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 560-565

  Agostino, Rocco ^a,b   Currà, Antonio ^a,b   Giovannelli, Morena ^a   Modugno, Nicola ^a,b   Manfredi, Mario ^a,b   Berardelli, Alfredo ^a,b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Individual finger movements; Kinematic analysis; Parkinson's disease

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FINGER; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; INDEX FINGER; KINEMATICS; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOTOR SYSTEM; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; THUMB;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; PARKINSON DISEASE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0037809607     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.10313     Document Type: Article

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