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Voluntary control of a plegic limb during yawning

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  1. Department of Neurosciences and Mental Health, Neurology, Stroke Unit, Hospital de Santa Maria, CHLN, Lisbon, Portugal

    Pedro Nascimento Alves, Ana Catarina Fonseca & Patrícia Canhão

  2. Language Research Laboratory, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

    Pedro Nascimento Alves

  3. Department of Neurosciences and Mental Health, Neurology, EMG Lab, Hospital de Santa Maria, CHLN, Lisbon, Portugal

    Mamede de Carvalho & José Castro

  4. Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

    Mamede de Carvalho, Ana Catarina Fonseca & Patrícia Canhão

  5. Department of Neuroradiology, Hospital de Santa Maria, CHLN, Lisbon, Portugal

    Sofia Reimão

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Online Resource 1 Video showing the ability of the patient to follow the instructions of the observer with his right plegic superior limb while yawning. More sustained periods of yawning with more complex movements were described by the patient, but were not caught in the recording, due to the infrequency of yawning (MOV 6907 kb)

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Nascimento Alves, P., de Carvalho, M., Reimão, S. et al. Voluntary control of a plegic limb during yawning. J Neurol 265, 433–435 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-017-8729-z

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