Corticospinal System Excitability at Rest Is Associated with Tic Severity in Tourette Syndrome

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 248-251

  Orth, Michael ^a,b,c   Münchau, Alexander ^c   Rothwell, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Corticospinal system; Gilles de la Tourette syndrome; tics; transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BRAIN CORTEX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GILLES DE LA TOURETTE SYNDROME; HUMAN; MALE; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NECK; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE STIMULATION; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SHOULDER; TIC; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VOCALIZATION; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REST; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TICS; TOURETTE SYNDROME; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 46449125316     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2007.12.009     Document Type: Article

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