Voluntary teeth clenching facilitates human motor system excitability

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 111, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 988-993

  Boroojerdi, B ^a   Battaglia, F ^a   Muellbacher, W ^a   Cohen, L G ^a  

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

Author keywords

Jendrassik maneuver; Motor cortex; Teeth clenching; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRUXISM; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EYELID REFLEX; FASCICULATION; FEMALE; HOFFMANN REFLEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAW MUSCLE; MALE; MONOSYNAPTIC REFLEX; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; BLINKING; BRAIN; BRAIN STEM; BRUXISM; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; H-REFLEX; HUMANS; MAGNETICS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL;

EID: 0034214073     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-2457(00)00279-0     Document Type: Article

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