Transmission of the cortical command for human voluntary movement through cervical propriospinal premotoneurons

Progress in Neurobiology

Volumn 48, Issue 4-5, 1996, Pages 489-517

  Pierrot Deseilligny, Emmanuel ^a  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN CORTEX; ELECTROMYOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOCOMOTION; MONOSYNAPTIC REFLEX; MOTONEURON; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

EID: 0029945025     PISSN: 03010082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0301-0082(96)00002-0     Document Type: Review

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