Subthalamic nucleus stimulation restores the efferent cortical drive to muscle in parallel to functional motor improvement

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 896-908

  Weiss, Daniel ^a,b   Breit, Sorin ^a,b   Hoppe, Julia ^c   Hauser, Ann Kathrin ^a,b   Freudenstein, Dirk ^d   Krüger, Rejko ^a,b   Sauseng, Paul ^c   Govindan, Rathinaswamy B ^e   Gerloff, Christian ^c  

^a GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^d Department of Functional and Stereotactic Neurosurgery   (Germany)

^e CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Coherence; Local field potentials; Motor integration; Neuronal networks; Parkinson's disease

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; GRIP STRENGTH; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; SUBTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; THETA RHYTHM;

AGED; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PARKINSON DISEASE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SUBTHALAMIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 84858860899     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2012.08014.x     Document Type: Article

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