Corticospinal Excitability during motor imagery of a simple tonic finger movement in patients with writer's cramp

Movement Disorders

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1488-1495

  Quartarone, Angelo ^a,e   Bagnato, Sergio ^a,b,d   Rizzo, Vincenzo ^a   Morgante, Francesca ^a   Sant'Angelo, Antonino ^a   Crupi, Domenica ^a   Romano, Marcello ^c   Messina, Corrado ^a   Berardelli, Alfredo ^b,d   Girlanda, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b IRCCS NEUROMED   (Italy)

^c Ospedale Villa Sofia   (Italy)

^d SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dystonia; Motor imagery; Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS); Writer's cramp

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSTONIA; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HAND MUSCLE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; IMAGERY; INDEX FINGER; MALE; MOTOR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; WRITER CRAMP;

ADULT; AGED; DYSTONIC DISORDERS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FINGERS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS;

EID: 30444455489     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.20626     Document Type: Article

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