Focal enhancement of motor cortex excitability during motor imagery: A transcranial magnetic stimulation study

Acta Neurologica Scandinavica

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 146-151

  Facchini, S ^a   Muellbacher, W ^a   Battaglia, F ^a   Boroojerdi, B ^a   Hallett, M ^a  

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

Author keywords

Cortical excitability; Motor evoked potentials; Motor imagery; Primary motor cortex; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGING SYSTEM; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE ENDING; NORMAL HUMAN; REST; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 0036196710     PISSN: 00016314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0404.2002.1o004.x     Document Type: Article

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