Evaluation of movement and brain activity

Clinical neurophysiology studies can contribute important information about the physiology of human movement and the pathophysiology and diagnosis of different movement disorders. Some techniques can be accomplished in a routine clinical neurophysiology laboratory and others require some special equipment. This review, initiating a series of articles on this topic, focuses on the methods and tech-niques. The methods reviewed include EMG, EEG, MEG, evoked potentials, coherence, accelerometry, pos-turography (balance), gait, and sleep studies. Functional MRI (fMRI) is also reviewed as a physiological method that can be used independently or together with other methods. A few applications to patients with movement disorders are discussed as examples, but the detailed applications will be the subject of other articles. Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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Clinical neurophysiology studies play a crucial role in understanding the physiology of human movement and the pathophysiology and diagnosis of various movement disorders, utilizing a range of methods and techniques such as EMG, EEG, MEG, etc.