Noradrenergic modulation of human cortex excitability by the presynaptic α2-antagonist yohimbine

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 307, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 41-44

  Plewnia, Christian ^a   Bartels, Mathias ^a   Cohen, Leonardo ^b   Gerloff, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

Intracortical facilitation; Intracortical inhibition; Motor cortex; Motor system excitability; Norepinephrine; Transcranial magnetic stimulation; Yohimbine

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; YOHIMBINE;

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR SYSTEM; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NORADRENERGIC SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; REFLEX RECRUITMENT; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADRENERGIC ALPHA-ANTAGONISTS; ADULT; BRAIN INJURIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; HUMANS; MAGNETICS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR NEURONS; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NOREPINEPHRINE; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, ALPHA-2; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; YOHIMBINE;

EID: 0035816493     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(01)01921-8     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Mechanisms of use-dependent plasticity in the human motor cortex
2. Different forms of synaptic plasticity in somatosensory and motor areas of the neocortex
3. Evidence that amphetamine with physical therapy promotes recovery of motor function in stroke patients
4. Direct demonstration of the effect of lorazepam on the excitability of the human motor cortex
5. Pharmacotherapy for recovery of function after brain injury
6. Enhancing recovery after stroke with noradrenergic pharmacotherapy: A new frontier?
7. Basic and clinical studies of pharmacologic effects on recovery from brain injury
8. Amphetamine-induced recovery of visual cliff performance after bilateral visual cortex ablation in cats: Measurements of depth perception thresholds
9. Norepinephrine promotes long-term potentiation in the adult rat hippocampus in vitro
10. Reshaping the cortical motor map by unmasking latent intracortical connections
11. Corticocortical inhibition in human motor cortex
12. Neural substrates for the effects of rehabilitative training on motor recovery after ischemic infarct
13. Enhanced neocortical neural sprouting, synaptogenesis, and behavioral recovery with D-amphetamine therapy after neocortical infarction in rats
14. α-noradrenergic agonists and antagonists affect recovery and maintenance of beam-walking ability after sensorimotor cortex ablation in rat
15. Simultaneous measurement of plasma and brain extracellular fluid concentrations of catechols after yohimbine administration in rats
16. Use of amphetamine in the treatment of aphasia
17. Amphetamine paired with physical therapy accelerates motor recovery after stroke. Further evidence
18. Interaction between intracortical inhibition and facilitation in human motor cortex