Abnormal experimentally- and behaviorally-induced LTP-like plasticity in focal hand dystonia

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 240, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 64-74

  Belvisi, Daniele ^a   Suppa, Antonio ^a   Marsili, Luca ^a   Di Stasio, Flavio ^a   Parvez, Ahmad Khandker ^a   Agostino, Rocco ^a   Fabbrini, Giovanni ^a   Berardelli, Alfredo ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dystonia; Early motor learning; Plasticity; Primary motor cortex; TMS

Indexed keywords

ABDUCTION; ACCELERATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTATION; FEMALE; FOCAL HAND DYSTONIA; HUMAN; INDEX FINGER; INTERMITTENT THETA BURST STIMULATION; KINEMATICS; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PAIRED ASSOCIATIVE STIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THETA RHYTHM; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; DYSTONIC DISORDERS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870926005     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2012.11.003     Document Type: Article

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