Assessment of involuntary choreatic movements in Huntington's disease-Toward objective and quantitative measures

Movement Disorders

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2267-2273

  Reilmann, Ralf ^a   Bohlen, Stefan ^a   Kirsten, Florian ^a   Ringelstein, E Bernd ^a   Lange, Herwig W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Basal ganglia; Chorea; Clinical trials; Huntington's disease; Motor control

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHOREA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; MALE; ORIENTATION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DYSKINESIAS; FEMALE; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; POSTURE; PSYCHOMETRICS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; WEIGHT LIFTING;

EID: 80055092758     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.23816     Document Type: Article

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