Tremor-related motor unit firing in parkinson's disease: Implications for tremor genesis

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 587, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 4811-4827

  Christakos, C N ^a,b   Erimaki, S ^a,b   Anagnostou, E ^c   Anastasopoulos, D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE TWITCH; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROTRANSMISSION; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE WAVE; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; TREMOR; ACTION POTENTIAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FIRING RATE; FORCE TREMOR; HOEHN AND YAHR SCALE; OSCILLATION; STIMULATION; UNIFIED PARKINSON DISEASE RATING SCALE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PARKINSON DISEASE; PERIODICITY; RECRUITMENT, NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL; TREMOR;

EID: 70350662022     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2009.173989     Document Type: Article

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