Corticospinal excitability modulation during mental simulation of wrist movements in human subjects

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 243, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 147-151

  Rossi, Simone ^a,c   Pasqualetti, Patrizio ^a   Tecchio, Franca ^b   Pauri, Flavia ^a   Rossini, Paolo M ^a,b,d  

^a IRCCS ISTITUTO CENTRO SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO FATEBENEFRATELLI   (Italy)

^b FATEBENEFRATELLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^d IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cortical excitability; Mental imagery; Motor evoked potentials; Movements; Transcranial stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE RELAXATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; WRIST;

ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MAGNETICS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; WRIST;

EID: 0031912559     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00088-3     Document Type: Article

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