Corticospinal excitability modulation to hand muscles during movement imagery

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 161-167

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

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

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^c FATEBENEFRATELLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^e CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; MALE; MENTAL TASK; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 0032938166     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/9.2.161     Document Type: Article

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