Mirror movements and ipsilateral motor evoked potentials in ALS

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Other Motor Neuron Disorders

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 154-163

  Krampfl, Klaus ^a   Mohammadi, Bahram ^a   Komissarow, Leonid ^a   Dengler, Reinhard ^a   Bufler, Johannes ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Electromyography; Mirror movements; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

RILUZOLE;

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MUSCLE EXCITATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; THUMB; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MAGNETICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL;

EID: 6444219637     PISSN: 14660822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14660820410019657     Document Type: Article

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