Abnormal plasticity of the sensorimotor cortex to slow repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in patients with writer's cramp

Movement Disorders

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 81-90

  Bäumer, Tobias ^a   Demiralay, Cüneyt ^a   Hidding, Ute ^a   Bikmullina, Rosalia ^a   Helmich, Rick C ^a   Wunderlich, Silke ^a   Rothwell, John ^b   Liepert, Joachim ^a   Siebner, Hartwig R ^c,d   Münchau, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c NeuroImage Nord   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Maladaptive plasticity; Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation; Short latency afferent inhibition; Somatosensory cortex; Writer's cramp

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSTONIA; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDEX FINGER; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; WRITER CRAMP;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; DYSTONIC DISORDERS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SKIN; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 33847762766     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.21219     Document Type: Article

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