Temporal discrimination of two passive movements in writer's cramp

Movement Disorders

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1131-1135

  Tinazzi, Michele ^a,b   Fiorio, Mirta ^a   Stanzani, Clementina ^a   Moretto, Giuseppe ^b   Smania, Nicola ^a   Fiaschi, Antonio ^a   Bhatia, Kailash P ^c   Rothwell, John C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b TMD Study Group   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dystonia; Kinesthesia; Muscle afferents; Proprioception; Somatosensory system; Temporal discrimination

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DYSTONIA; FEMALE; HAND DISEASE; HUMAN; INDEX FINGER; JOINT FUNCTION; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SKIN SENSATION; TIME PERCEPTION; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION; WRIST;

ADULT; DYSTONIC DISORDERS; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 33748369357     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.20892     Document Type: Article

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