Cortical excitability and motor task in man: An investigation of the wrist extensor motor area

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 143, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 431-439

  Aimonetti, Jean Marc ^a,b   Nielsen, Jens ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Cortical excitability; Hand; Mapping; Motor unit; TMS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FEMALE; HAND GRIP; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INHIBITION KINETICS; JOINT FUNCTION; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NERVE PROJECTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; WRIST;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ELECTROMAGNETICS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SKILLS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; WRIST;

EID: 0036207306     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-002-1010-3     Document Type: Article

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