Startle responses in Parkinson patients during human gait

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 171, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 215-224

  Nieuwenhuijzen, P H J A ^a   Horstink, M W ^a   Bloem, B R ^a   Duysens, J ^a,b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b SMK Research   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

EMG; Gait; Habituation; Parkinson disease; Startle

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANKLE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FALLING; FEMALE; GAIT; HABITUATION; HUMAN; KINEMATICS; KNEE; MALE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDING; STARTLE REFLEX; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; TREADMILL; WALKING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGED; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GAIT; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARKINSON DISEASE; REACTION TIME; STARTLE REACTION; WALKING;

EID: 33646507496     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-005-0270-0     Document Type: Article

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