Motor cortex plasticity and excitability in Parkinson's disease
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| Year of publication | 2014 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Clinical Neurophysiology |
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| Citation | |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.clinph.2014.01.032 |
| Field | Neurology, neurosurgery, neurosciences |
| Keywords | INTRACORTICAL INHIBITION; PAIRED TMS; MODULATION |
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| Description | We read with great interest the study by Kacar et al., concerning exposure to dopaminergic medication and motor cortex plasticity and excitability in Parkinson's disease (PD).The authors used a paired associative protocol (PAS), short-interval intracortical inhibition (SICI), and intracortical facilitation (1CF) to measure the sensory-motor plasticity. We would like to discuss the observation that there was no significant interaction between facilitatory sensory-motor plasticity and the features of motor cortex excitability in PD. This observation indicates that long-term treatment does not seem to change the underlying physiology of the disease. |
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