Novel threshold tracking techniques suggest that cortical hyperexcitability is an early feature of motor neuron disease
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Novel threshold tracking techniques suggest that cortical hyperexcitability is an early feature of motor neuron disease.
The dying forward hypothesis of motor neuron disease (MND) suggests that corticomotoneurons induce excitotoxic anterior horn cell death, with involvement of the glutamatergic neurotransmitter system. The aim of the present study was to apply novel threshold tracking transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) techniques in conjunction with peripheral nerve excitability studies in MND patients to fu...
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عنوان ژورنال: Brain
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0006-8950,1460-2156
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awl172