Modulation of a motor evoked response to transcranial magnetic stimulation by the activity level of the first dorsal interosseous muscle in humans when grasping a stationary object with different grip widths

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 299, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 1-4

  Hasegaw, Yoshiteru ^a   Kasai, Tatsuya ^a   Kinoshita, Hiroshi ^b   Yahagi, Susumu ^c  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HIROSHIMA SHUDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Background electromyogram; First dorsal interosseous muscle; Input output relation; Motor evoked potential; Precision grip; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HAND GRIP; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SYNAPSE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HAND; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR NEURONS; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 0035895706     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(00)01709-2     Document Type: Article

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