The excitability of the human motor cortex increases during execution and mental imagination of sequential but not repetitive finger movements

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 465-472

  Abbruzzese, G ^a   Trompetto, C ^a   Schieppati, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

H reflex; Human; Motor task; Sequential and imagined movements; Supplementary motor area; Transcranial magnetic cortical stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; ELBOW; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXCITABILITY; FEMALE; FINGER; HAND MOVEMENT; HOFFMANN REFLEX; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 0029821824     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00228736     Document Type: Article

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