Persistent mirror movements for over sixty years: The underlying mechanisms in a cerebral palsy patient

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 80-87

  Norton, Jonathan A ^a   Thompson, Aiko K ^a,b   Ming Chan, K ^a   Wilman, Alan ^a   Stein, Richard B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetic resonance imaging; Mirror movements; Motor evoked potential; Reflex; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE REPORT; CEREBRAL PALSY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; LEG MOVEMENT; LIMB MOVEMENT; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MIRROR MOVEMENT; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE STIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEX; TIBIAL NERVE; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

AGED; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL PALSY; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOVEMENT; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 37749052738     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2007.09.120     Document Type: Article

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