Reduced reciprocal inhibition is seen only in spastic limbs in patients with neurolathyrism

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 181, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 193-197

  Crone, C ^a   Petersen, N T ^b   Gimenez Roldan S ^c   Lungholt, B ^b   Nyborg, K ^b   Nielsen, J B ^b  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Corticospinal pathway; Neurolathyrism; Reciprocal inhibition; Spasticity

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANKLE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; FLEXOR REFLEX; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; LATHYRISM; MUSCLE FUNCTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SPASTICITY; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

AGED; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LATHYRISM; MALE; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; NEURAL INHIBITION; PERONEAL NERVE; RADIAL NERVE; REACTION TIME; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 34447099582     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-007-0993-1     Document Type: Article

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