Writer's cramp: Increased dorsal premotor activity during intended writing

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 613-625

  Delnooz, Cathérine C S ^a   Helmich, Rick C ^a,b   Medendorp, W P ^a,b,c   Van de Warrenburg, Bart P C ^a   Toni, Ivan ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Action planning; Dorsal premotor cortex; Dystonia; Functional MRI; Task specificity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BIOMECHANICS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL PREMOTOR CORTEX; DYSTONIA; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGERY; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PARIETAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; SUPERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; TASK PERFORMANCE; WRITER'S CRAMP; WRITING;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DYSTONIC DISORDERS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE STRENGTH; OXYGEN; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TIME FACTORS; WRITING;

EID: 84873466906     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21464     Document Type: Article

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