Cortical contributions to the flail leg syndrome: Pathophysiological insights

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Degeneration

Volumn 17, Issue 5-6, 2016, Pages 389-396

  Menon, Parvathi ^a,b   Geevasinga, Nimeshan ^a,b   Yiannikas, Con ^a,c   Kiernan, Matthew C ^a,d   Vucic, Steve ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c ROYAL NORTH SHORE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

cortical hyperexcitability; Flail leg syndrome; SICI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLONUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL HYPEREXCITABILITY; FEMALE; FLAIL LEG SYNDROME; HUMAN; LEG DISEASE; LEG MUSCLE; LOWER LIMB; MALE; MOTOR EVOKED POTENTIAL; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; PATHOLOGICAL REFLEX; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE MUSCULAR ATROPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPASTICITY; STRENGTH; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; UPPER LIMB; BRAIN CORTEX; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; LEG; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPREADING CORTICAL DEPRESSION;

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORTICAL SPREADING DEPRESSION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL INHIBITION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84958745391     PISSN: 21678421     EISSN: 21679223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/21678421.2016.1145232     Document Type: Article

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