Changes of intracortical inhibition during motor imagery in human subjects

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 263, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 113-116

  Abbruzzese, G ^a   Assini, A ^a   Buccolieri, A ^a   Marchese, R ^a   Trompetto, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cortico cortical inhibition; Motor cortex; Motor imagery; Paired pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EXCITABILITY; FINGER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; INTERNEURON; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; HUMANS; MAGNETICS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PERCEPTION; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0033605532     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00120-2     Document Type: Article

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