The natural history of central motor abnormalities in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Brain

Volumn 126, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2558-2566

  Mills, Kerry R ^a  

^a KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ALS; Central motor conduction; Corticomotor threshold; Serial studies; Silent period

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; FASCICULATION; FEMALE; HISTORY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROTOXICITY; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINNERVATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; ULNAR NERVE;

EID: 0142215370     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awg260     Document Type: Article

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