Belly dancer's myoclonus and chronic abdominal pain: Pain-related dysinhibition of a spinal cord central pattern generator?

Parkinsonism and Related Disorders

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 317-320

  Tamburin, Stefano ^a,b   Idone, Domenico ^a   Zanette, Giampietro ^a,b  

^a PEDERZOLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Belly dancer's syndrome; Central pattern generator (CPG); Chronic pain; Spinal myoclonus (SM); Spinal plasticity

Indexed keywords

CLONAZEPAM; GABAPENTIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC PAIN; DANCING; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERACTIVITY; HYPOTHESIS; INTERNEURON; METABOLITE; MYOCLONUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MYOCLONUS; SPINAL CORD DISEASES;

EID: 34347326204     PISSN: 13538020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2006.07.005     Document Type: Article

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