Covariation between human intrinsic hand muscles of the silent periods and compound muscle action potentials evoked by magnetic brain stimulation: Evidence for common inhibitory connections

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 433-440

  Ho, King Hee ^a   Nithi, Kannan ^a   Mills, Kerry R ^a  

^a RADCLIFFE INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Common connections; Hand muscles; Magnetic brain stimulation; Silent period

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INHIBITION KINETICS; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; BRAIN; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HAND; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PERIPHERAL NERVES; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0031686819     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050531     Document Type: Article

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