Head retraction reflex in stiff-man syndrome and related disorders

Movement Disorders

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 906-911

  Berger, Christian ^a   Meinck, Hans Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brainstem; EMG recording; Exteroceptive; Reflex; Rigidity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE REFLEX; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; MUSCLE SPASM; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; MYOCLONUS; NECK MUSCLE; ORBICULARIS OCULI MUSCLE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE; STIFF MAN SYNDROME; THORACIC SPINE; TIME; TRAPEZIUS MUSCLE; TRIGEMINAL NERVE;

BRAIN STEM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; FEMALE; HEAD; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOCLONUS; REFLEX, ABNORMAL; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STIFF-PERSON SYNDROME;

EID: 0042975266     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.10451     Document Type: Article

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