Primary somatosensory cortical plasticity and tactile temporal discrimination in focal hand dystonia

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 537-543

  Conte, Antonella ^a,b   Rocchi, Lorenzo ^b   Ferrazzano, Gina ^b   Leodori, Giorgio ^b   Bologna, Matteo ^a   Li Voti, Pietro ^a   Nardella, Andrea ^a   Berardelli, Alfredo ^a,b  

^a IRCCS NEUROMED   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cortical plasticity; Focal hand dystonia; Primary somatosensory cortex; Somatosensory temporal discrimination; Theta burst stimulation

Indexed keywords

CORTICAL PLASTICITY; FOCAL HAND DYSTONIA; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY TEMPORAL DISCRIMINATION; THETA-BURST STIMULATION;

ADULT; AGED; DYSTONIC DISORDERS; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOUCH PERCEPTION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84894334731     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2013.08.006     Document Type: Article

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