The correlation between motor impairments and event-related desynchronization during motor imagery in ALS patients

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Kasahara, Takashi ^a   Terasaki, Kentaro ^b   Ogawa, Yuki ^b   Ushiba, Junichi ^b   Aramaki, Harumichi ^c   Masakado, Yoshihisa ^a  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Hakone National Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Brain computer interface; Bulbar dysfunction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; GRIP STRENGTH; HUMAN; IMAGERY; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR IMAGERY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROMODULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; DISABILITY EVALUATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; IMAGERY (PSYCHOTHERAPY); LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84862221149     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-13-66     Document Type: Article

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