Contribution of Human Reflex Studies to the Understanding and Management of the Pyramidal Syndrome

The Integrative Action of the Nervous System

1907 • 2,278 citations

PRELIMINARY TRIAL OF CARISOPRODOL IN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS.

1964 • 1,491 citations

Spasticity, disordered motor control

1980 • 1,097 citations

DIFFERENT TYPES OF DISTURBED MOTOR CONTROL IN GAIT OF HEMIPARETIC PATIENTS

1979 • 521 citations

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL STUDIES OF GAIT IN SPASTICITY AND RIGIDITY

1981 • 425 citations

Reciprocal Ia inhibition during voluntary movements in man

1974 • 255 citations

Electrophysiological studies of nerve and reflex activity in normal man. IV. The two-neurone reflex and identification of certain action potentials from spinal roots and cord.

1951 • 250 citations

Human flexor reflexes

1971 • 243 citations

Selective changes in the sizes of red and white muscle fibres in upper motor lesions and Parkinsonism

1970 • 227 citations

Tonic and phasic spinal cord mechanisms in man

1966 • 226 citations

Presynaptic inhibition of the monosynaptic reflex by vibration

1969 • 192 citations

Spasticity

1981 • 180 citations

SPASTICITY AND RIGIDITY: AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY AND REVIEW

1960 • 171 citations

SPINAL WITHDRAWAL REFLEXES IN THE HUMAN LOWER LIMBS

1960 • 168 citations

CONDUCTION AND SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION OF THE REFLEX RESPONSE TO STRETCH IN SPINAL CATS

1943 • 159 citations

ACTIVITY IN THE SIMPLEST SPINAL REFLEX PATHWAYS

1940 • 158 citations

IS THE HUMAN STRETCH REFLEX CORTICAL RATHER THAN SPINAL ?

1973 • 153 citations

Segmental reflex pathways in spinal shock and spinal spasticity in man

1974 • 137 citations

F responses studied with single fibre EMG in normal subjects and spastic patients.

1978 • 130 citations

RECURRENT INHIBITION OF α - MOTONEURONS IN PATIENTS WITH UPPER MOTOR NEURON LESIONS

1982 • 127 citations

Are spinal “presynaptic” inhibitory mechanisms suppressed in spasticity?

1972 • 124 citations

Human Monosynaptic Reflexes and Presynaptic Inhibition

2015 • 118 citations

RECIPROCAL Ia INHIBITION IN SPASTIC HEMIPLEGIA OF MAN

1976 • 116 citations

The Effect of Muscle Vibration in Normal Man and in Patients with Motor Disorders

2015 • 111 citations

The Motor System: Neurophysiology and Muscle Mechanisms

1978 • 109 citations

Excitability of spinal motor neurones in normal subjects and patients with spasticity, Parkinsonian rigidity, and cerebellar hypotonia.

1967 • 107 citations

The effects of muscle vibration in spasticity, rigidity, and cerebellar disorders.

1968 • 106 citations

Cutaneous nerve stimulation and motoneuronal excitability: I, soleus and tibialis anterior excitability after ipsilateral and contralateral sural nerve stimulation.

1981 • 90 citations

The Plasticity of Human Withdrawal Reflexes to Noxious Skin Stimuli in Lower Limbs

1963 • 86 citations

THE MYOTATIC REFLEX

1970 • 86 citations

FACILITATION OF MONOSYNAPTIC REFLEXES BY VOLUNTARY CONTRACTIONOF MUSCLES IN REMOTE PARTS OF THE BODY: MECHANISMS INVOLVED IN THE JENDRASSIK MANCEUVRE

1981 • 78 citations

Effects of conditioning afferent volleys on variability of monosynaptic responses of extensor motoneurons.

1969 • 78 citations

Dependence of the achilles tendon reflex on the excitability of spinal reflex pathways

1981 • 75 citations

Cutaneous nerve stimulation and motoneuronal excitability. II: Evidence for non-segmental influences.

1984 • 74 citations

Assessing segmental excitability after acute rostral lesions

1978 • 73 citations

Central responses to electrical activation of the peripheral nerves supplying the intrinsic hand muscles.

1965 • 71 citations

SPINAL SEGMENTAL AND LONG-LOOP REFLEXES ON SPINAL MOTONEURONE EXCITABILITY IN SPASTICITY AND RIGIDITY

1967 • 70 citations

Effects of extensor and flexor group I afferent volleys on the excitability of individual soleus motoneurones in man

1977 • 68 citations

Excitability of human motoneurones after discharge in a conditioning reflex

1976 • 64 citations

Tonic vibration reflex in spasticity, Parkinson's disease, and normal subjects

1972 • 63 citations

PHASIC ANKLE REFLEX IN SPASTICITY AND PARKINSONIAN RIGIDITY

1971 • 62 citations

Effect of hemispheral lesions on the contralateral blink reflex

1974 • 58 citations

Neurophysiologic changes in hemiplegia

1976 • 55 citations

Presynaptic and postsynaptic inhibition of spinal motoneurons.

1972 • 54 citations

Assessing segmented excitability after acute rostral lesions

1979 • 53 citations

Autogenic Effects of Static Muscle Stretch in Spastic Man

1971 • 47 citations

Atresia and Stenosis of the Colon

1963 • 46 citations

LOWER LIMB CUTANEOUS REFLEXES IN HEMIPLEGIA

1972 • 40 citations

THE ANKLE-JERK IN EARLY HEMIPLEGIA

1957 • 39 citations

Tonic vibration reflex in the cat.

1971 • 39 citations

ACTION POTENTIALS OF MUSCLES IN "SPASTIC" CONDITIONS

1940 • 37 citations

Neurophysiological Changes Following Spinal Cord Lesions in Man

1975 • 36 citations

Facilitation During the H-Reflex Recovery Cycle

1972 • 36 citations

The irrelevance of fusimotor activity to the achilles tendon jerk of relaxed humans

1981 • 36 citations

Discharge Characteristics of Single Motor Units in Normal Subjects and Patients with Supraspinal Motor Disturbances1

2015 • 33 citations

The Role of the Fusimotor System in Spasticity and Parkinsonian Rigidity

2015 • 30 citations

Studies of the Reflex Effects of Primary and Secondary Spindle Endings in Spasticity

2015 • 27 citations

Section of the Cerebral Peduncles

1961 • 26 citations

Renshaw Cell Activity in Normal and Spastic Man

2015 • 25 citations

Segmentation of human spindle and EMG responses to sudden muscle stretch

1980 • 24 citations

Effects of Presynaptic and Postsynaptic Inhibition on the Variability of the Monosynaptic Reflex

1967 • 23 citations

Control of the tonic vibration reflex by the brain stem reticular formation in the cat

1973 • 21 citations

The Clinical Significance of Exteroceptive Reflexes

2015 • 21 citations

THE EFFECTS OF CALORIC STIMULATION OF THE LABYRINTH ON THE SOLEUS MOTOR POOL IN MAN

1977 • 18 citations

Functional relationships between myotatic reflex arcs of the lower limb in man: investigation by excitability curves.

1976 • 17 citations

Section of the cerebral peduncles.

1960 • 17 citations

Excitability of lower limb myotatic reflex arcs under the influence of caloric labyrinthine stimulation. Analysis of the postural effects in man.

1977 • 15 citations

Supraspinal Control of the Changes Induced in H-Reflex by Cutaneous Stimulation, as Studied in Normal and Spastic Man

2015 • 14 citations

Pathological plantar response. I. Flexor and extensor components in early and late reflex parts.

1965 • 13 citations

Alterations in dynamic and static properties of the stretch reflex in patients with spastic hemiplegia.

1968 • 13 citations

Excitability relationships between lower limb myotatic arcs in spasticity.

1978 • 9 citations

Relationship between various clinical signs in lesions of the descending motor system (a statistical study).

1974 • 9 citations

Réflexes du muscle soléaire évoqués par la stimulation du nerf tibial postérieur versus réflexe tendineux chez l'homme

1979 • 7 citations

Factorial analysis of specific parameters in spasticity.

1979 • 4 citations

[Electrophysiological analysis of the blink reflex during hemiplegia due to hemispheric lesions].

1975 • 3 citations

Single motor unit recording

1980 • 2 citations