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Stretch Reflexes and Parkinsonian Tremor

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Book cover Advances in Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery 7

Part of the book series: Acta Neurochirurgica Supplementum ((STEREOTACTIC,volume 39))

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By coupling human limbs to a machine, which drives a single joint through sinusoidal flexion-extension movements, it is often possible to entrain the resting tremor of Parkinson’s disease. Entrainment is most likely to occur when the imposed movement is large in amplitude and close in frequency to the spontaneous tremor.

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  1. Department of Physiology, The Medical School, Birmingham 15, UK

    P. M. H. Rack (Professor of Experimental Neurology)

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  1. Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Leuven, Belgium

    Jan Gybels

  2. The Midland Centre for Neurosurgery and Neurology, West Midland, UK

    Edward R. Hitchcock

  3. Department of Neurosurgery, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

    Björn Meyerson

  4. Abteilung für Stereotaktische Neurochirurgie, Neurochirurgische Universitäts-Klinik, Homburg, Saar, Federal Republic of Germany

    Christoph Ostertag

  5. Istituto di Neurochirurgia, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

    Gian Franco Rossi

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Rack, P.M.H. (1987). Stretch Reflexes and Parkinsonian Tremor. In: Gybels, J., Hitchcock, E.R., Meyerson, B., Ostertag, C., Rossi, G.F. (eds) Advances in Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery 7. Acta Neurochirurgica Supplementum, vol 39. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-8909-2_14

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