Cerebellar stimulation fails to modulate motor cortex plasticity in writing dystonia

Movement Disorders

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1304-1307

  Sadnicka, Anna ^a,b   Hamada, Masashi ^a,b,c   Bhatia, Kailash P ^b   Rothwell, John C ^b   Edwards, Mark J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebellar stimulation; Cerebellum; Plasticity; Writers' cramp; Writing dystonia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CEREBELLAR TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROMODULATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SHAM PROCEDURE; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WRITER'S CRAMP; DYSTONIC DISORDERS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; INNERVATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; WRITING;

CEREBELLUM; DYSTONIC DISORDERS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; WRITING;

EID: 84908375261     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.25881     Document Type: Article

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