Interhemispheric differences of hand muscle representation in human motor cortex

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 535-542

  Cicinelli, Paola ^a   Traversa, Raimondo ^a   Bassi, Andrea ^a   Scivoletto, Giorgio ^a   Rossini, Paolo Maria ^b  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^b FATEBENEFRATELLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

focal transcranial magnetic stimulation; human motor cortex; interhemispheric asymmetries; motor mapping

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HAND MUSCLE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLES;

EID: 0030939837     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(199705)20:5<535::AID-MUS1>3.0.CO;2-A     Document Type: Article

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