Mirror movements in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 393-397

  Wittstock, Mathias ^a   Meister, Steffanie ^a   Walter, Uwe ^a   Benecke, Reiner ^a   Wolters, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; mirror movements; transcallosal inhibition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS FUNCTIONAL RATING SCALE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; MALE; MIRROR MOVEMENT; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; TRANSCALLOSAL INHIBITION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 80055053464     PISSN: 17482968     EISSN: 1471180X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/17482968.2011.577223     Document Type: Article

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