• Annals of neurology · Mar 1995

    Case Reports

    Detection of silent cerebellar lesions by increasing the inertial load of the moving hand.

    • M Manto, E Godaux, and J Jacquy.
    • Department of Neurology, Hôpital Civil de Charleroi, Belgium.
    • Ann. Neurol. 1995 Mar 1; 37 (3): 344-50.

    AbstractIn a previous study, we analyzed the hypermetria of wrist flexion movements in patients with a cerebellar syndrome. We found that hypermetria augmented when the inertial load of the moving hand was artificially increased. In the present study, we applied the same protocol to patients with an apparently normal neurological examination, in spite of a cerebellar lesion documented by magnetic resonance imaging. In all of these patients, the addition of a mass to the moving hand caused the appearance of a hypermetria. This lack of adaptation of fast and accurate movements to an increased inertia thus appears as a new diagnostic tool enabling the detection of silent cerebellar lesions.

      Pubmed     Copy Citation     Plaintext  

      Add institutional full text...

    Notes

     
    Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?
    300 characters remaining
    help        
    You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
    • Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as *italics*, _underline_ or **bold**.
    • Superscript can be denoted by <sup>text</sup> and subscript <sub>text</sub>.
    • Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines 1. 2. 3., hyphens - or asterisks *.
    • Links can be included with: [my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com)
    • Images can be included with: ![alt text](https://bestmedicaljournal.com/study_graph.jpg "Image Title Text")
    • For footnotes use [^1](This is a footnote.) inline.
    • Or use an inline reference [^1] to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document [^1]: This is a long footnote..

    hide…