Cerebral correlates of muscle tone fluctuations in restless legs syndrome: A pilot study with combined functional magnetic resonance imaging and anterior tibial muscle electromyography

Sleep Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 177-183

  Spiegelhalder, Kai ^a   Feige, Bernd ^a   Paul, Dominik ^a   Riemann, Dieter ^a   van Elst, Ludger Tebartz ^a   Seifritz, Erich ^b   Hennig, Jürgen ^a   Hornyak, Magdolna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

EMG; fMRI; Neurophysiology; Pathology; Periodic leg movements; Restless legs syndrome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE RELAXATION; MUSCLE TONE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; SUPINE POSITION; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE;

BRAIN; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE TONUS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PILOT PROJECTS; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 38149070851     PISSN: 13899457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2007.03.021     Document Type: Article

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