Electroencephalographic measurement of motor cortex control of muscle activity in humans

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 326-337

  Mima, Tatsuya ^a   Steger, Jürg ^a   Schulman, Andrew E ^b   Gerloff, Christian ^a   Hallett, Mark ^a  

^a Sect Clin and Exp Neuropsychol   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Coherence; Cortical muscular coupling; EEG; Motor control; Oscillatory activity; Phase spectra

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLES; VIBRATION;

EID: 0033988459     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-2457(99)00229-1     Document Type: Article

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