Reduced cortical plasticity and GABAergic modulation in essential tremor

Movement Disorders

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 501-507

  Chuang, Wen Li ^a,b   Huang, Ying Zu ^a,b   Lu, Chin Song ^a,b   Chen, Rou Shayn ^a,b  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

^b CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Essential tremor; Gamma aminobutyric acid; Premotor; Primary motor cortex; Theta burst stimulation

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE STIMULATION; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THETA BURST STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; AGED; ELECTROSTIMULATION; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THETA RHYTHM; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THETA RHYTHM; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84898059133     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.25809     Document Type: Article

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