Musician's cramp as manifestation of maladaptive brain plasticity: Arguments from instrumental differences

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1252, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 259-265

  Altenmüller, Eckart ^a   Baur, Volker ^a,b   Hofmann, Aurélie ^a   Lim, Vanessa K ^c   Jabusch, Hans Christian ^d  

^a Inst for Music Physiology and Musicians' Medicine (IMMM)   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^d DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dystonia; Endophenotype; Gender; Instrument; Maladaptive plasticity; Musician's cramp

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; INSTRUMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MUSICIAN'S DYSTONIA; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 84860252616     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2012.06456.x     Document Type: Article

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