Facilitation of motor evoked potentials (MEPs) in first dorsal interosseous (FDI) muscle is dependent on different motor images

Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology - Electromyography and Motor Control

Volumn 109, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 409-417

  Yahagi, Susumu ^a   Kasai, Tatsuya ^b  

^a HIROSHIMA SHUDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

First dorsal interosseous muscle; Human; Motor evoked potential; Motor imagery; Right left difference

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; INDEX FINGER; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FINGERS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL;

EID: 0031782976     PISSN: 0924980X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0924-980X(98)00041-1     Document Type: Article

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