Motor excess during movement: Overflow, mirroring, and synkinesis

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 5-6

  Espay, Alberto J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETRY; BELL PALSY; EDITORIAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; FACIES; HYPERACTIVITY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; OCULAR JAW SYNKINESIS; PARKINSONISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SYNKINESIS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EYE; HUMANS; JAW; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PARKINSON DISEASE; SYNKINESIS;

EID: 73549094219     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2009.09.022     Document Type: Editorial

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