Motor hemiplegia and the cerebral organization of movement in man. I. The "pyramidal concept": a restatement.
Based on twenty personal cases of pure motor symptoms due to circumscribed encephalic injuries, the pertinent literature is reviewed and the structural and functional supremacy of the pyramidal (corticospinal) and corticonuclear tracts in the human being is emphasized.
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Servico de Neurologia, Hospital Universitário Gaffrée e Guinle, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
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