✦ LIBER ✦

Reciprocal inhibition in forearm muscles in patients with essential tremor

✍ Scribed by B. Mercuri; A. Berardelli; N. Modugno; L. Vacca; S. Ruggieri; M. Manfredi

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1998
Tongue: English
Weight: 129 KB
Volume: 21
Category: Article
ISSN: 0148-639X
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4598(199806)21:6<796::aid-mus13>3.0.co;2-r

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Reciprocal inhibition of the H-reflex in the forearm flexor muscles was studied in 11 patients with essential tremor and in 10 normal controls. Whereas patients and controls had a similar first, disynaptic phase of reciprocal inhibition, patients had a significantly reduced second phase. Patients with more severe functional impairment had more pronounced abnormalities of reciprocal inhibition. Abnormalities of reciprocal inhibition may play a role in the pathophysiology of essential tremor and probably arise from defective suprasegmental control.

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

Postcontraction depression of reciprocal

Postcontraction depression of reciprocal inhibition in human forearm muscles

✍ Alberto Priori; Alessandra Pesenti; Alberto Cappellari; Guglielmo Scarlato; Serg 📂 Article 📅 2000 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 297 KB 👁 2 views

Cortical excitability in patients with e

Cortical excitability in patients with essential tremor

✍ Stefano Romeo; Alfredo Berardelli; Francesca Pedace; Maurizio Inghilleri; Morena 📂 Article 📅 1998 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 115 KB 👁 1 views

We used transcranial magnetic stimulation in 10 patients with essential tremor and 8 matched healthy subjects. A round stimulating coil was placed over the vertex and electromyographic activity was recorded from the first dorsal interosseous muscle. Paired transcranial stimuli were delivered at inte

Visuomotor performance in patients with

Visuomotor performance in patients with essential tremor

✍ Miguel Schwartz; Samich Badarny; Svetlana Gofman; Shraga Hocherman 📂 Article 📅 1999 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 220 KB 👁 1 views

Botulinum toxin restores presynaptic inh

Botulinum toxin restores presynaptic inhibition of group Ia afferents in patients with essential tremor

✍ Nicola Modugno; Alberto Priori; Alfredo Berardelli; Laura Vacca; Bruno Mercuri; 📂 Article 📅 1998 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 128 KB 👁 2 views

We studied the effect of botulinum toxin A injection on the abnormal presynaptic phase of reciprocal inhibition between forearm antagonist muscles in patients with essential tremor. Ten patients with essential tremor were investigated before and 1 month after botulinum injection. Reciprocal inhibiti

Risk of tremor and impairment from tremo

Risk of tremor and impairment from tremor in relatives of patients with essential tremor: A community-based family study

✍ Elan D. Louis; Blair Ford; Steven Frucht; Livia F. Barnes; Ming X-Tang; Ruth Ott 📂 Article 📅 2001 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 170 KB 👁 2 views

Changes of forearm EMG and cerebral evok

Changes of forearm EMG and cerebral evoked potentials following sudden muscle stretch in patients with Huntington's disease

✍ Ralf Siedenberg; Douglas S. Goodin; Michael J. Aminoff 📂 Article 📅 1999 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 172 KB 👁 2 views

Various investigators have reported that the late-reflex electromyographic (EMG) activity following muscle stretch is decreased in Huntington's disease. To explore the basis of this decreased activity, we recorded the late EMG responses together with associated cerebral responses following muscle st