Neurophysiological mechanisms in abnormal reflex activities in cerebral palsy and spinal spasticity.
Open Access
- 1 April 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
- Vol. 43 (4) , 333-342
- https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.43.4.333
Abstract
Dorsal root stimulation, carried out during operation in 80 spastic cerebral palsy patients and in one spastic quadriplegic patient, allowed a study of abnormal monosynaptic and polysynaptic reflexes. Frequency-related depression of the monosynaptic reflex was not present; increased activity through non-suppressed polysynaptic pathways was shown.This publication has 38 references indexed in Scilit:
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