Corticospinal excitability in patients with secondary dystonia due to focal lesions of the basal ganglia and thalamus

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 123, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 808-814

  Trompetto, Carlo ^a   Avanzino, Laura ^a   Marinelli, Lucio ^a   Mori, Laura ^a   Pelosin, Elisa ^a   Roccatagliata, Luca ^a   Abbruzzese, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Basal ganglia; Cortical excitability; Dystonic postures; Dystonic spasms; Secondary dystonia; TMS

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MOTOR THRESHOLD; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN DAMAGE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSPINAL EXCITABILITY; DYSTONIA; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EXCITABILITY; FEMALE; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HUMAN; INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; SHORT INTERVAL INTRACORTICAL INHIBITION; SILENT PERIOD; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; SUBTHALAMUS; THALAMUS; TREMOR;

AGE OF ONSET; AGED; BASAL GANGLIA DISEASES; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; DYSTONIA; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PUTAMEN; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; THALAMIC DISEASES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREMOR;

EID: 84857791264     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2011.06.033     Document Type: Article

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