The basal ganglia are hyperactive during the discrimination of tactile stimuli in writer's cramp

Brain

Volumn 129, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2697-2708

  Peller, M ^a,b   Zeuner, K E ^a   Munchau, A ^c   Quartarone, A ^d   Weiss, M ^a,b   Knutzen, A ^a   Hallett, M ^e   Deuschl, G ^a   Siebner, Hartwig Roman ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b NeuroImage Nord   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

Basal ganglia; Focal hand dystonia; Functional MRI; Tactile discrimination; Thalamus; Writer's cramp

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CEREBELLUM NUCLEUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSTONIA; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HANDWRITING; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; INSULA; MALE; MUSCLE CRAMP; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; SENSORY CORTEX; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS LATERAL NUCLEUS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 33749493484     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awl181     Document Type: Article

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