Motor cortical plasticity is impaired in Unverricht-Lundborg disease

Movement Disorders

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2095-2100

  Danner, Nils ^a,b   Säisänen, Laura ^a,b   Määttä, Sara ^a   Julkunen, Petro ^a   Hukkanen, Taina ^a   Könönen, Mervi ^a   Hyppönen, Jelena ^a   Kälviäinen, Reetta ^a,b   Mervaala, Esa ^a,b  

^a KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Paired associative stimulation; Plasticity; Progressive myoclonus epilepsy; Transcranial magnetic stimulation; Unverricht Lundborg disease

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SENSORY STIMULATION; THENAR; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; UNVERRICHT-LUNDBORG SYNDROME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052963170     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.23813     Document Type: Article

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