Facilitation of motor evoked potentials after repetitive voluntary hand movements depends on the type of motor activity

Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology - Electromyography and Motor Control

Volumn 105, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 357-364

  Hauptmann, B ^b   Skrotzki, A ^b   Hummelsheim, H ^a,b  

^a Neurologische Fachklinik Hilchenbach ^*  (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Motor learning; Movement repetition; Post exercise facilitation; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FACILITATION; FEMALE; FOREARM; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE ISOTONIC CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VELOCITY; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; EXERTION; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; MAGNETICS; MALE; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; VOLITION;

EID: 0030753349     PISSN: 0924980X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0924-980X(97)00031-3     Document Type: Article

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