Altered soleus responses to magnetic stimulation in pure cerebellar ataxia

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1198-1203

  Kurokawa Kuroda, Tomomi ^a,b   Ogata, Katsuya ^a   Suga, Rie ^a   Goto, Yoshinobu ^c   Taniwaki, Takayuki ^d   Kira, Jun ichi ^b   Tobimatsu, Shozo ^a  

^a Graduate School of Medical Sciences   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND WELFARE   (Japan)

^d KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebellar degeneration; Posture; Soleus late response (SLR); Soleus primary response (SPR); Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX ATROPHY; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CEREBELLUM ATROPHY; CEREBELLUM INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; LEG; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SOLEUS MUSCLE; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION; STANDING; SUPINE POSITION; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

AGED; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CEREBELLUM; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POSTURE; REACTION TIME; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 34248389762     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2007.03.006     Document Type: Article

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