Abnormal associative plasticity of the human motor cortex in writer's cramp

Brain

Volumn 126, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2586-2596

  Quartarone, Angelo ^a,c   Bagnato, Sergio ^a   Rizzo, Vincenzo ^a   Siebner, Hartwig R ^b   Dattola, Vincenzo ^a   Scalfari, Antonio ^a   Morgante, Francesca ^a   Battaglia, Fortunato ^a   Romano, Marcello ^a   Girlanda, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Associative stimulation; Focal dystonia; Plasticity; TMS; Writer's cramp

Indexed keywords

ABDUCTOR POLLICIS BREVIS MUSCLE; ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSTONIA; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EXCITATION; FEMALE; FIRST DORSAL INTEROSSEUS MUSCLE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; INHIBITION KINETICS; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SYSTEM; MUSCLE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; WRITER CRAMP;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DYSTONIC DISORDERS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 0345138987     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awg273     Document Type: Article

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