Gait & Posture
Volume 31, Issue 3 , Pages 326-330 , March 2010

Effects of a secondary task on postural control in children with Tourette syndrome

  • Martin Lemay

      Affiliations

    • Centre de réadaptation Marie Enfant. CHU Sainte-Justine, Montréal, Québec, Canada
    • Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
    • Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Laboratoire du Mouvement et de la Cognition, Centre de Réadaptation Marie Enfant, Centre de Recherche, 5200 Bélanger Est, H1T 1C9, Montréal, Canada. Tel.: +1 514 374 1710#8184; fax: +1 514 723 7116.
    • ,
  • Thanh-Thuan Lê

      Affiliations

    • Centre de réadaptation Marie Enfant. CHU Sainte-Justine, Montréal, Québec, Canada
    • ,
  • François Richer

      Affiliations

    • Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
    • Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
    • ,
  • The Montreal Tourette Study Group

Received 14 January 2009 ,Revised 3 November 2009 ,Accepted 25 November 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2009.11.017

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