SIMULTANEOUS ELECTROMYOGRAMS AND ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAMS IN PARALYSIS AGITANS

Abstract
To study correlation between brain rhythm and tremor rhythm. 37 patients having paralysis agitans were examined by means of the electroencephalogram and the electromyo-gram; the records being taken simultaneously on a 2-channel ink-writing oscillograph. When artifact, caused by a shaking of the head, was eliminated, no correlation between these 2 rhythms was found. Furthermore, in a number of these patients, the tremor rate varied in 2 extremities, and even in muscles of the same extremities. The rhythm in paralysis agitans apparently does not originate in the cerebral cortex.