Pathophysiology of unilateral asterixis due to thalamic lesion

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 123, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1858-1864

  Inoue, Manabu ^a,b   Kojima, Yasuhiro ^a   Mima, Tatsuya ^b   Sawamoto, Nobukatsu ^b   Matsuhashi, Masao ^b   Fumuro, Tomoyuki ^b   Kinboshi, Masato ^a   Koganemaru, Satoko ^b   Kanda, Masutarou ^a   Shibasaki, Hiroshi ^b  

^a Ijinkai Takeda General Hospital   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asterixis related cortical activity; Motor cortex excitability; Thalamic asterixis; Thalamic infarction; Thalamo cortical connectivity

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN A1C;

AGED; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DYSARTHRIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FLAPPING TREMOR; GAIT DISORDER; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NYSTAGMUS; OSCILLATION; PARESTHESIA; PAROTID GLAND TUMOR; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POLYNEUROPATHY; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS LATERAL NUCLEUS; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS; TOUCH; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

AGED; BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DYSKINESIAS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; REACTION TIME; THALAMUS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84864396951     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2012.01.021     Document Type: Article

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