Dynamic changes in corticospinal excitability during motor imagery

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 75-81

  Hashimoto, Ritsuo ^a   Rothwell, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

H reflex; Motor evoked potentials; Motor imagery; Temporal change; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HAND MUSCLE; HOFFMANN REFLEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; WRIST;

ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; H-REFLEX; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MAGNETICS; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MOVEMENT; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0033000390     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050660     Document Type: Article

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