Motor overflow in Huntington's disease

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 904-906

  Georgiou Karistianis, N ^a   Hoy, K E ^a   Bradshaw, J L ^a   Farrow, M ^a   Chiu, E ^b,c   Churchyard, A ^d   Fitzgerald, P B ^a   Armatas, C A ^e  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c St George's Health Service   (Australia)

^d MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

^e DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; BENSERAZIDE; BROMIDE; CITALOPRAM; FUMARIC ACID; HALOPERIDOL; MOCLOBEMIDE; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; OLANZAPINE; PROPRANOLOL; QUETIAPINE; SERTRALINE; TETRABENAZINE; VALPROIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; HAND; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; HYPOTHESIS; MEASUREMENT; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRENGTH; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

BIOMECHANICS; EXERTION; FEMALE; FINGERS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SKILLS; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 2442675413     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2003.016733     Document Type: Article

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