Effect of fatiguing maximal voluntary contraction on excitatory and inhibitory responses elicited by transcranial magnetic motor cortex stimulation

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1017-1024

  McKay, W Barry ^a   Stokic, Dobrivoje S ^a   Sherwood, Arthur M ^a   Vrbova, Gerta ^b   Dimitrijevic, Milan R ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

fatigue; MEP; motor cortex; silent period; transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FACILITATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FATIGUE; HUMANS; MAGNETICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE CONTRACTION;

EID: 0029807331     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.880190803     Document Type: Article

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