What does the pedunculopontine nucleus do?

Neurology

Volumn 75, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 944-945

  Classen, Joseph ^a   Schnitzler, Alfons ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEM; EDITORIAL; EVOKED RESPONSE; HUMAN; LEG MOVEMENT; LOCOMOTION; PARKINSON DISEASE; PEDUNCULOPONTINE TEGMENTAL NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; PARKINSON DISEASE; PEDUNCULOPONTINE TEGMENTAL NUCLEUS;

EID: 77957256716     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e3181f25b73     Document Type: Editorial

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