Cortical drives to human muscle: The Piper and related rhythms

Progress in Neurobiology

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 97-108

  Brown, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA RHYTHM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAM; HUMAN; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MYOCLONUS; OSCILLATION; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ANIMALS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOCLONUS; PARKINSON DISEASE; PERIODICITY;

EID: 0033989573     PISSN: 03010082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-0082(99)00029-5     Document Type: Review

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