Short latency afferent inhibition and facilitation in patients with writer's cramp

Movement Disorders

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 238-242

  Kessler, Kirn R ^a   Ruge, Diane ^a   Ilić, Tihomir V ^a   Ziemann, Ulf ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cortical excitability; Focal dystonia; Median nerve stimulation; Motor cortex; Transcranial magnetic stimulation; Writer's cramp

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSTONIA; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE CRAMP; MUSCLE RELAXATION; NERVE STIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DYSTONIC DISORDERS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETICS; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; REACTION TIME;

EID: 14944370732     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.20295     Document Type: Article

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