Homeostatic-like plasticity of the primary motor hand area is impaired in focal hand dystonia

Brain

Volumn 128, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1943-1950

  Quartarone, Angelo ^a,g   Rizzo, Vincenzo ^a   Bagnato, Sergio ^a,b   Morgante, Francesca ^a   Sant'Angelo, Antonino ^a   Romano, Marcello ^c   Crupi, Domenica ^a   Girlanda, Paolo ^a   Rothwell, John C ^d   Siebner, Hartwig R ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c Department of Neurology   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^f NeuroImage Nord   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Focal dystonia; Homeostatic plasticity; Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation; Transcranial direct current stimulation; Writer's cramp

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECT CURRENT; DYSTONIA; FEMALE; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE EXCITABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; HAND; HOMEOSTASIS; MAGNETISM; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; STIMULATION;

ADULT; AGED; DYSTONIC DISORDERS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HAND; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; MAGNETICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PHYSICAL STIMULATION;

EID: 23444435440     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awh527     Document Type: Article

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