Rapid plasticity of human cortical movement representation induced by practice

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 1117-1123

  Classen, Joseph ^a,c   Liepert, Joachim ^a   Wise, Steven P ^b   Hallett, Mark ^a   Cohen, Leonardo G ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; THUMB; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 0031907813     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1998.79.2.1117     Document Type: Article

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