Losing focus: How paying attention can be bad for movement

Movement Disorders

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1969-1970

  Edwards, Mark J ^a   Rothwell, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; DEPRESSION; EDITORIAL; FOCAL HAND DYSTONIA; HUMAN; INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

DYSTONIA; DYSTONIC DISORDERS; FEMALE; GOLF; HAND; HANDWRITING; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CRAMP;

EID: 80052970935     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.23920     Document Type: Editorial

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