Journal of Psychosomatic Research
Volume 70, Issue 1 , Pages 59-65 , January 2011

Motor excitability during movement imagination and movement observation in psychogenic lower limb paresis

  • Joachim Liepert

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurorehabilitation, Kliniken Schmieder, Allensbach
    • Department of Neurology, University of Freiburg, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Kliniken Schmieder, Department of Neurorehabilitation, Zum Tafelholz 8, D-78476 Allensbach, Germany. Tel.: +49 7533 8081236; fax: +49 7533 8081441.
    • ,
  • Thomas Hassa

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurorehabilitation, Kliniken Schmieder, Allensbach
    • ,
  • Oliver Tüscher

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, University of Freiburg, Germany
    • ,
  • Roger Schmidt

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychotherapeutic Neurology, Kliniken Schmieder, Konstanz
    • Department of Psychotherapeutic Neurology, Kliniken Schmieder, Gailingen

Received 8 February 2010 ,Revised 8 June 2010 ,Accepted 9 June 2010.

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PII: S0022-3999(10)00252-7

doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2010.06.004

Journal of Psychosomatic Research
Volume 70, Issue 1 , Pages 59-65 , January 2011

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